Cover -- The Barbarians: Lost Civilizations -- Imprint Page -- Contents -- Chronology -- Preface -- Introduction -- 1. Hunters, Fishers, Farmers and Metalworkers -- 2. Connections, Rituals and Symbols...
In this concise and powerful manifesto, Alessandro Baricco explores a handful of realms that have been "plundered"-wine, soccer, music, and books-and extrapolates that it is not a case of old values against new but a widespread mutation ...
A recent authoritative volume on prehistoric copper mining in Europe is William O'Brien, Prehistoric Copper Mining in Europe, 5500–500 BC (Oxford, 2014). Every year new information about the Iceman becomes available.
Here is the dramatic story of the barbarians, beginning with the epochal event that shook civilization and signaled the end of the western empire: the sacking of Rome by the Visigoth Alaric in the early fifth-century CE. Historian Grace ...
History was repeating itself; there were moats and nobles in Pennsylvania and vassals in Manhattan and the barbarian hordes were overrunning the land. Algis Budys was nominated for both the Hugo and Nebula awards.
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Describes the wars, weapons, and cultures of the Huns, Goths, Vandals, Franks, Moors, Magyars, Vikings, and Mongols, and examines their influence on European history.