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  • 428 AD

    An Ordinary Year at the End of the Roman Empire

    by Giusto Traina, Averil Cameron ...
    This is a sweeping tour of the Mediterranean world from the Atlantic to Persia during the last half-century of the Roman Empire. By focusing on a single year not overshadowed by an epochal event, 428 AD provides a truly fresh look at a civilization in the midst of enormous change--as Christianity takes hold in rural areas across the empire, as western Roman provinces fall away from those in the ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The Roman World War

    From the Ides of March to Cleopatra’s Suicide

    by Giusto Traina ...
    Translated by Malcolm DeBevoise ...
    How the ruthless contest among Julius Caesar’s heirs ignited a global war that raged far beyond the borders of RomeThe succession of civil wars that plagued the last years of the Roman Republic has often been portrayed as a settling of scores between Roman factions—Sulla against Marius, Caesar against Pompey, Octavian against Mark Antony—with foreign campaigns serving as a backdrop to the tragic ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

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  • Stilicho

    The Vandal Who Saved Rome

    by Ian Hughes ...
    A military history of the campaigns of Stilicho, the army general who became one of the most powerful men in the Western Roman Empire.Flavius Stilicho lived in one of the most turbulent periods in European history. The Western Empire was finally giving way under pressure from external threats, especially from Germanic tribes crossing the Rhine and Danube, as well as from seemingly ever-present ... Read more

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  • Belisarius

    The Last Roman General

    by Ian Hughes ...
    A military history of the campaigns of Flavius Belisarius, the greatest general of the Eastern Roman (Byzantine) Emperor Justinian.Back in the 6th century, Belisarius twice defeated the Persians and reconquered North Africa from the Vandals in a single year at the age of 29, before going on to regain Spain and Italy, including Rome (briefly), from the barbarians. This book discusses the evolution ... Read more

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  • The Birth of the West

    Rome, Germany, France, and the Creation of Europe in the Tenth Century

    by Paul Collins ...
    The tenth century dawned in violence and disorder. Charlemagne's empire was in ruins, most of Spain had been claimed by Moorish invaders, and even the papacy in Rome was embroiled in petty, provincial conflicts. To many historians, it was a prime example of the ignorance and uncertainty of the Dark Ages. Yet according to historian Paul Collins, the story of the tenth century is the story of our ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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  • The Fall of the Roman Empire: A New History of Rome and the Barbarians

    A New History of Rome and the Barbarians

    by Peter Heather ...
    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: Rome generated its own nemesis. Centuries of imperialism turned the neighbors it called barbarians into an enemy capable of dismantling the Empire that had dominated their lives for so long. Heather is a leading authority on the late ... Read more

    $18.09 USD

  • The Fall of Rome:And the End of Civilization

    And the End of Civilization

    by Bryan Ward-Perkins ...
    Why did Rome fall?Vicious barbarian invasions during the fifth century resulted in the cataclysmic end of the world's most powerful civilization, and a 'dark age' for its conquered peoples. Or did it? The dominant view of this period today is that the 'fall of Rome' was a largely peaceful transition to Germanic rule, and the start of a positive cultural transformation.Bryan Ward-Perkins encourages ... Read more

    $14.29 USD

  • The Frontiers of the Roman Empire

    by David Breeze ...
    "Practically all new information on the greatest empire of all and how it controlled and policed its frontiers. Absolutely fascinating!"— Books MonthlyAt its height, the Roman Empire was the greatest empire yet seen with borders stretching from the rain-swept highlands of Scotland in the north to the sun-scorched Nubian desert in the south. But how were the vast and varied stretches of frontier ... Read more

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  • Through the Eye of a Needle

    Wealth, the Fall of Rome, and the Making of Christianity in the West, 350-550 AD

    by Peter Brown ...
    Jesus taught his followers that it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter heaven. Yet by the fall of Rome, the church was becoming rich beyond measure. Through the Eye of a Needle is a sweeping intellectual and social history of the vexing problem of wealth in Christianity in the waning days of the Roman Empire, written by the world's foremost scholar ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • Roman Britain: A New History 55 BC - AD 450

    A New History 55 BC-AD 450

    by Patricia Southern ...
    For nearly four centuries, from AD 43 to 410, Britain was a small province on the north western edge of the vast Roman Empire. Patricia Southerns masterly new history tells the story from first contact, through invasion and conquest, coexistence to eventual decline incorporating the political, social and cultural history of Britannia. For the first time the wealth of voices from the varied ... Read more

    $11.69 USD

  • Barbarian Tides

    The Migration Age and the Later Roman Empire

    by Walter Goffart ...
    Series series The Middle Ages Series
    The Migration Age is still envisioned as an onrush of expansionary "Germans" pouring unwanted into the Roman Empire and subjecting it to pressures so great that its western parts collapsed under the weight. Further developing the themes set forth in his classic Barbarians and Romans, Walter Goffart dismantles this grand narrative, shaking the barbarians of late antiquity out of this "Germanic" ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

  • Cambridge Medieval History: Germany and the Western Empire

    by J.B. Bury ...
    Cambridge Medieval History: Germany and the Western Empire is an expansive treatise on Western civilization after the fall of Rome. From 800 to 1000 A.D. ,the rise of the Franks, Germanic tribes, and the Viking invasions of Europe are all covered in great detail. A table of contents is included for easier navigation. ... Read more

    $2.99 USD