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The Fall of the Roman Empire - A New History of Rome and the Barbarians (Paperback)
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The Fall of the Roman Empire - A New History of Rome and the Barbarians (Paperback)
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Price R347
Discovery Miles 3 470
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The death of the Roman Empire is one of the perennial mysteries of
world history. Now, in this groundbreaking book, Peter Heather
proposes a stunning new solution: Centuries of imperialism turned
the neighbors Rome called barbarians into an enemy capable of
dismantling an Empire that had dominated their lives for so long. A
leading authority on the late Roman Empire and on the barbarians,
Heather relates the extraordinary story of how Europe's barbarians,
transformed by centuries of contact with Rome on every possible
level, eventually pulled the empire apart. He shows first how the
Huns overturned the existing strategic balance of power on Rome's
European frontiers, to force the Goths and others to seek refuge
inside the Empire. This prompted two generations of struggle,
during which new barbarian coalitions, formed in response to Roman
hostility, brought the Roman west to its knees. The Goths first
destroyed a Roman army at the battle of Hadrianople in 378, and
went on to sack Rome in 410. The Vandals spread devastation in Gaul
and Spain, before conquering North Africa, the breadbasket of the
Western Empire, in 439. We then meet Attila the Hun, whose reign of
terror swept from Constantinople to Paris, but whose death in 453
ironically precipitated a final desperate phase of Roman collapse,
culminating in the Vandals' defeat of the massive Byzantine Armada:
the west's last chance for survival. Peter Heather convincingly
argues that the Roman Empire was not on the brink of social or
moral collapse. What brought it to an end were the barbarians.
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