{"product_id":"empires-and-barbarians-the-fall-of-rome-and-the-birth-of-europe-paperback","title":"Empires and Barbarians: The Fall of Rome and the Birth of Europe - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003ePeter Heather\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eEmpires and Barbarians\u003c\/em\u003e 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 undeveloped barbarian world and the sophisticated Roman Empire--into remarkably similar societies and states. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe 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 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 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 Slavic speakers had largely superseded Germanic speakers in central and Eastern Europe, literacy was growing, Christianity had spread, and most fundamentally, Mediterranean supremacy was broken. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBringing the whole of first millennium European history together, and challenging current arguments that migration played but a tiny role in this unfolding narrative, \u003cem\u003eEmpires and Barbarians\u003c\/em\u003e views the destruction of the ancient world order in light of modern migration and globalization patterns.\u003cbr\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePeter Heather\u003c\/strong\u003e is Professor of Medieval History at King's College London. He is the author of \u003cem\u003eThe Fall of the Roman Empire, Goths and Romans, 332-489, The Goths\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eThe Visigoths in the Migration Period\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 752\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 2.1 x 9.1 x 6.1 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e March 01, 2012\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51978807771437,"sku":"9780199892266","price":28.18,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0938\/3185\/6429\/files\/OG1vaXFJa1FGOUtiUGZZRkRDK1VGQT09.webp?v=1775810416","url":"https:\/\/ishookbooks.com\/products\/empires-and-barbarians-the-fall-of-rome-and-the-birth-of-europe-paperback","provider":"iShook Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}