Rome, China, and the barbarians : ethnographic traditions and the transformation of empires /

This book addresses a largely untouched historical problem, the fourth to fifth centuries AD witnessed remarkably similar patterns of foreign invasion, conquest and political fragmentation in Rome and China. Yet while the western Roman empire was never reestablished, China was reunified at the end o...

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Main Author: Ford, Randolph B., 1976- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, [2020]
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