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  E-mail Message: I thought you might be interested in this item at http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/815873345 Title: The Huns, Rome and the birth of Europe Author: Hyun Jin Kim Publisher: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2013. ISBN/ISSN: 9781107009066 1107009065 1107055407 9781107055407 OCLC:815873345

  
  

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The Huns, Rome and the birth of Europe

Author:	Hyun Jin Kim
Publisher:	Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2013.
Edition/Format:	Print book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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"--  Read more...
Subjects	Huns -- Asia, Central -- History. Huns -- Europe -- History. Asia, Central -- Civilization. View all subjects
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