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The Huns, Rome and the birth of Europe / Hyun Jin Kim.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Kim, Hyun Jin, 1982- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Huns--Asia, Central--History.
- Huns.
- Huns--Europe--History.
- Asia, Central--Civilization.
- Asia, Central.
- Rome--Civilization--Asian influences.
- Rome.
- Europe--Civilization--Asian influences.
- Europe.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (viii, 338 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Other Title:
- The Huns, Rome & the Birth of Europe
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2013.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- The Huns have often been treated as primitive barbarians with no advanced political organisation. Their place of origin was the so-called 'backward steppe'. It has been argued that whatever political organisation they achieved they owed to the 'civilizing influence' of the Germanic peoples they encountered as they moved west. This book argues that the steppes of Inner Asia were far from 'backward' and that the image of the primitive Huns is vastly misleading. They already possessed a highly sophisticated political culture while still in Inner Asia and, far from being passive recipients of advanced culture from the West, they passed on important elements of Central Eurasian culture to early medieval Europe, which they helped create. Their expansion also marked the beginning of a millennium of virtual monopoly of world power by empires originating in the steppes of Inner Asia. The rise of the Hunnic Empire was truly a geopolitical revolution.
- Contents:
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Rome's inner Asian enemies before the Huns
- 3. The Huns in Central Asia
- 4. The Huns in Europe
- 5. The end of the Hunnic Empire in the West
- 6. The later Huns and the birth of Europe
- Conclusion.
- Notes:
- Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-139-88830-7
- 1-107-06489-9
- 1-107-05649-7
- 1-107-05438-9
- 1-107-05759-0
- 0-511-92049-0
- 1-107-05884-8
- 1-107-05540-7
- OCLC:
- 841911047
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