LAND BEYOND THE RIVER: Europe In The Age Of Migration. With Illustrations By Author

Lyttle, Richard

ISBN 10: 0689311990 / ISBN 13: 9780689311994

Published by NY. 1986. Atheneum., 1986

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tan cloth hardcover 8vo. (octavo). dustwrapper in protective plastic book jacket cover. vg cond. binding square & tight. covers clean. top & foredge of text block have small coffee type spots (1"wx1/4"d) that do not reach into the text, otherwise contents free of markings. dustwrapper in fine cond. with couple of tiny nicks, not torn or price clipped. nice clean copy. no library markings, store stamps, stickers, bookplates, no names, inking, underlining, remainder markings etc~. first edition so stated. first printing (NAP). b&w maps & illustrations bibliography. index. ancient history. medieval history. european history. attila the hun. the great migrations. ~ THE HUNS, fearsome, ugly, and ruthless, it was said, were moving out of the east in search of new pastures. In the second and third centuries A.D., the Roman Empire controlled most of Europe, and its civilizing influences touched even the Germanic tribes of its northern borders. But Rome's power was fading, and when the Huns wandered west out of China, the Germanic tribes were forced to flee before them. Goths and Vandals, two of these displaced tribes, helped cause the final downfall of Rome. This was the beginning of a restless time of fear, hunger, and bloodshed called the Age of Migration. Angles and Saxons moved into the British Isles, followed by the Vikings, changing the makeup of England. And to the south, Mohammad founded the Moslem religion, causing new population pressures as the religion and its followers spread north, as well as east and west. Genghis Khan and his people brought a new wave of conquest from the East, and when his empire weakened, Russian tribes moved into Siberia. Here is the story of those exciting times, when the Western World was in turmoil and the nations of modern Europe were being formed.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: LAND BEYOND THE RIVER: Europe In The Age Of Migration. With Illustrations By Author
• Publisher: NY. 1986. Atheneum.
• Publication Date: 1986
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0689311990
• ISBN 13: 9780689311994
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included
• Seller catalogs:
  • islam
  • european history
  • medieval history

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Synopsis

Describes how the migrating Huns, barbarians, Moslems, Vikings, Mongols, and others changed the face of Europe between the 2nd and 9th centuries.

Reviews

Grade 6 Up Writing in a smooth, explanatory style, Lyttle undertakes to describe the shadowy period that began with the end of the Roman Empire and continued through the age of Vikings and the Mongol conquest of Russia. Lyttle includes in the movements of peoples who "shaped the boundaries of the Old World" chapters on the Huns, Vandals, Anglo-Saxons, Mohammedans, Mongols and, surprisingly, Gypsies. He carries his account into the 17th- and 18th-Century expansion of Russia into Siberia and eventually to the Alaskan shores. Lyttle's narrative is based on traditional ideas of political and military leadership as the motive force in history, and on the assumption that the formation of Europe was the central outcome of these displacements of populations. The book may be useful for factual information on various tribes and early peoples, but the author casts his net too wide and covers too vast a time period. He fails to connect the migrations he describes with the development of a European society and, by confusing tribal relocations, military conquests and economic expansion, he fails to prove any thesis about the shaping of Europe. This book will not supersede Richard Suskind's The Barbarians (Grosset, 1970; o.p.) or Trevor Cairns' Barbarians, Christians & Muslims (Lerner, 1975). Shirley Wilton, Ocean County College, Toms River, N.J.
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