Huns, Vandals and the Fall of the Roman Empire

Hodgkin, Thomas; With a New Introduction by Tim Newark

ISBN 10: 1853672424 / ISBN 13: 9781853672422

Editore: Greenhill Books, 1996

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Full cloth hardcover binding is clean and tight. The interior and text are clean and unmarked. The dust jacket is bright, attractive, and whole. NOT ex-lib. A clean, tight copy in jacket; appears unused and as new. Indexed. xxvi, 640pp.

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• Titolo: Huns, Vandals and the Fall of the Roman Empire
• Editore: Greenhill Books
• Data di pubblicazione: 1996
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 1853672424
• ISBN 13: 9781853672422
• Rilegatura: Hardcover
• Condizione: Fine
• Condizione della sovraccoperta: Fine

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It was Attila the Hun who brought together the Germanic barbarians and created a series of vigorous kingdoms out of the collapsing Roman Empire. In this authoritative history, Hodgkin explores Attila's rise and rule over the Huns in the 440s, when Vandals, Ostrogoths, Gepids and Franks were also fighting under his banner and his dominion extended over Germany and Scythia from the Rhine to the frontiers of China. The power vacuum after Attila's death led to the fall of the Hunnish empire and the rise of the Vandals, who sacked Rome in 455. Out of a period of constant fighting amongst the different tribes came the first barbarian king of Italy, Odovakar, signalling the true end of the Western Roman Empire.
Hodgkin's comprehensive work on this dramatic period was originally published as one volume of a larger history of Italy. He drew a vivid picture of the fifth-century collapse of the Roman Empire, making use of the texts of Latin and Greek chroniclers, describing, for example, the campaigns of Attila or life in barbarian Gaul. By using analogies with events in his own time (the late nineteenth century), and finding parallels with the state of what was then the British Empire, he brought his subject even more successfully to life. The conclusions in this classic book on what causes an empire to collapse are still valid today.

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London. 23cm. xxvi,640p : ill, 1map. Encuadernación en tapa dura de editorial con sobrecubierta ilustrada. Idioma Inglés. Facsim. of ed. originally published as: Italy and her invaders, v. 2, The Hunnish and Vandal invasion. Oxford : Clarendon Press, 1880. Includes index. Thomas Hodgkin ; with a new introduction by Tim Newark. [Italy and her invaders. V. 2][The Hunnish and Vandal invasion. ]. "Huns, Vandals and the fall of the Roman Empire was first published as Italy and her invaders, Volume II: The Hunnish and Vandal invasion (first edition 1880, second edition 1892, Oxford). Italy and her Invaders comprised eight volumes in total. The second edition of Volume II is reproduced here, with a new introduction by Tim Newark. "-- T. p. verso. Includes bibliographical references and index .. Este libro es de segunda mano y tiene o puede tener marcas y señales de su anterior propietario. ISBN: 1853672424