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The Fall of Rome: And the End of Civilization
List Price: $19.99 Our Price: $13.41 Ships FREE from Amazon.com on orders over $25 (details)  Edition: Paperback Other editions available: Digital, Paperback, Hardcover 116 third-party copies available from: $4.03 
Other items of interest: • The Methods and Skills of History: A Practical Guide • The World of Late Antiquity: AD 150-750 (Library of World Civilization) • The Fall of the Roman Empire: A New History of Rome and the Barbarians • A Manual for Writers of Research Papers, Theses, and Dissertations, Seventh Edition: Chicago Style for Students and Researchers (Chicago Guides to Writing, Editing, and Publishing) • Late Antiquity: A Very Short Introduction  Product Description: Was the fall of Rome a great catastrophe that cast the West into darkness for centuries to come? Or, as scholars argue today, was there no crisis at all, but simply a peaceful blending of barbarians into Roman culture, an essentially positive transformation? In The Fall of Rome, eminent historian Bryan Ward-Perkins argues that the "peaceful" theory of Rome's "transformation" is badly in error. Indeed, he sees the fall of Rome as a time of horror and dislocation that destroyed a great civilization, throwing the inhabitants of the West back to a standard of living typical of prehistoric times. Attacking contemporary theories with relish and making use of modern archaeological evidence, he looks at both the wider explanations for the disintegration of the Roman world and also the consequences for the lives of everyday Romans, who were caught in a world of marauding barbarians, and economic collapse. The book recaptures the drama and violence of the last days of the Roman world, and reminds us of the very real terrors of barbarian occupation. Equally important, Ward-Perkins contends that a key problem with the new way of looking at the end of the ancient world is that all difficulty and awkwardness is smoothed out into a steady and positive transformation of society. Nothing ever goes badly wrong in this vision of the past. The evidence shows otherwise. Up-to-date and brilliantly written, combining a lively narrative with the latest research and thirty illustrations, this superb volume reclaims the drama, the violence, and the tragedy of the fall of Rome. Product Details/Specifications: Authors: Bryan Ward-Perkins Recording label: Oxford University Press, USA Publishers: Oxford University Press, USA Manufacturer: Oxford University Press, USA EAN: 9780192807281 Binding: Paperback ISBN: 0192807285 Number of items: 1 Number of pages: 256 Publication date: 2006-09-07 Language: English (Unknown) Language: English (Original Language) Language: English (Published) |
