The Huns, Rome and the birth of Europe /

The Huns, Rome and the birth of Europe /

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Author / Creator:Kim, Hyun Jin, 1982-
Imprint:Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2013
Description:1 online resource (viii, 338 pages)
Language:English
Subject:
Huns -- Asia, Central -- History.
Huns -- Europe -- History.
Civilization.
Civilization -- Asian influences.
Huns.
Asia, Central -- Civilization.
Rome -- Civilization -- Asian influences.
Europe -- Civilization -- Asian influences.
Central Asia.
Europe.
Rome (Empire)
History.
Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11832481
Hidden Bibliographic Details
ISBN:1107058848
9781107058842
9781107055407
1107055407
9780511920493
0511920490
9781107009066
1107009065
9781107057593
1107057590
1139888307
9781139888301
1107064899
9781107064898
1107056497
9781107056497
1107054389
9781107054387
Digital file characteristics:data file
Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages 276-332) and index.
English.
Print version record.
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.--publisher's description.
Other form:Print version: Kim, Hyun Jin, 1982- Huns, Rome and the birth of Europe. 9781107009066 1107009065

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