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by Peter J. Heather| 2009| 753 pages| 11.13| other

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<span><i>Empires and Barbarians</i></span>&nbsp;presents a fresh, provocative look at how a recognizable Europe came into being in the first millennium AD. With sharp analytic insight, Peter Heather explores the dynamics of migration and social and economic interaction that changed two vastly different worlds--the&nbsp;undeveloped barbarian world and the sophisticated Roman Empire--into remarkably similar societies and states.<br><br>The book's vivid narrative begins at the time of Christ, when the Mediterranean circle, newly united under the Romans, hosted a politically sophisticated, economically advanced, and culturally developed civilization--one with philosophy, banking, professional armies, literature, stunning&nbsp;architecture, even garbage collection. The rest of Europe, meanwhile, was home to subsistence farmers living in small groups, dominated largely by Germanic speakers. Although having some iron tools and weapons, these mostly illiterate peoples worked mainly in wood and never built in stone. The&nbsp;farther east one went, the simpler it became: fewer iron tools and ever less productive economies. And yet ten centuries later, from the Atlantic to the Urals, the European world had turned. Slavic speakers had largely superseded Germanic speakers in central and Eastern Europe, literacy was growing,&nbsp;Christianity had spread, and most fundamentally, Mediterranean supremacy was broken.<br><br>Bringing the whole of first millennium European history together, and challenging current arguments that migration played but a tiny role in this unfolding narrative,&nbsp;<span><i>Empires and Barbarians</i></span>&nbsp;views the destruction of the ancient world order in light of modern migration and globalization patterns.

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Author:Peter J. Heather
Publication Year:2009
ISBN:199735603
Pages:753
Language:other
File Size:11.13
Format:PDF
Price:FREE
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