How Rome fell : death of a superpower / Adrian Goldsworthy.

By:

Goldsworthy, Adrian Keith

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: New Haven, CT : Yale University Press, 2009.Description: 1 online resource (x, 531 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations, mapsContent type:

text

Media type:

computer

Carrier type:

online resource

ISBN:

9780300155600
0300155603

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: How Rome fell.DDC classification:

937/.09 22

LOC classification:

DG311 .G745 2009eb

Other classification:

15.28
K.264
NH 7325
6,12

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Contents:

pt. 1. Crisis? The third century. The kingdom of gold -- The secret of empire -- Imperial women -- King of kings -- Barbarians -- The queen and the 'necessary' emperor -- Crisis -- pt. 2. Recovery? The fourth century. The four--Diocletian and the tetrarchy -- The Christian -- Rivals -- Enemies -- The pagan -- Goths -- East and west -- pt. 3. Fall? The fifth and sixth centuries. Barbarians and Romans : generals and rebels -- The sister and the eternal city -- The Hun -- Sunset on an outpost of empire -- Emperors, kings and warlords -- West and east -- Rise and fall.

Summary: The author discusses how the Roman Empire--an empire without a serious rival--rotted from within, its rulers and institutions putting short-term ambition and personal survival over the wider good of the state.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

The author discusses how the Roman Empire--an empire without a serious rival--rotted from within, its rulers and institutions putting short-term ambition and personal survival over the wider good of the state.