Rome and the Barbarians, 100 B.C.–A.D. 400 by Thomas S. Burns (Author)

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Rome and the Barbarians, 100 B.C.–A.D. 400 by Thomas S. Burns (Author)ISBN: 9780801873065 Publisher : Johns Hopkins University Press, September 8, 2003 Hardcover, 480 pages The barbarians of antiquity, so long a fixture of the public imagination as the savages who sacked and destroyed Rome, emerge in this colorful, richly textured history as a much more complexand far more interestingfactor in the expansion, and eventual unmaking, of the Roman Empire. Thomas S. Burns marshals an abundance of archeological and literary

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"The sweep of the material is breathtaking

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Illustrated throughout in color and black-and-white

The collection is divided into five sections which allow the reader to consider these themes in depth

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drawing on extensive archival research and dozens of interviews with principal figures

and documents that the world has actually improved