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Empires And Barbarians: The Fall Of Rome And The Birth Of Europe (2009)

by Peter Heather(Favorite Author)

3.84 of 5 Votes: 3

ISBN

0199752729 (ISBN13: 9780199752720)

languge

English

genre

History & Biography

publisher

Oxford University Press

review 1: I read this book over a long period, mainly because it is a long one. To be honest I'm not sure how to review this book. I had bought it thinking it was about something and it ended up being about something else entirely (or rather a different time period). Plus, if I'm going to compare it to his other book (The Fall of the Roman Empire) this book doesn't do so well. It was a bit on the boring side, not meant for the casual history buff, HOWEVER; the information in the book is invaluable if you want to understand how Europe was formed, and what are the main causes of migration [any migration really] and that is the real value of the book.I'm going to say that this book is more of a 3.5.
review 2: A pretty good examination of the "migrations" that made moder... moren Europe during and after the collapse of the Roman Empire. Not as well-written or as interesting, in my humble opinion, as Heather's previous volume, "The Fall of the Roman Empire." Also, for such a scholarly book, Heather adopts a somewhat playful and irreverent tone at times, right up to the concluding section, "Newton's Third Law of Empires?" . . . less

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