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001			on1128885606
003			OCoLC
005			20200618171634.0
008			191121s2020 nyu b 001 0beng
010			_a 2019050501
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019			_a1120085183 _a1155639095
020			_a9780393635690 _q(hardcover)
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020			_z9780393635706 _q(epub)
035			_a(OCoLC)1128885606 _z(OCoLC)1120085183 _z(OCoLC)1155639095
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100	1		_aBoin, Douglas, _eauthor.
245	1	0	_aAlaric the Goth : _ban outsider's history of the fall of Rome / _cDouglas Boin.
246	3	0	_aOutsider's history of the fall of Rome
250			_aFirst edition.
263			_a2006
264		1	_aNew York : _bW. W. Norton & Company, _c[2020]
300			_axiii, 254 pages : _billustrations ; _c25 cm
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505	0		_aSeventy-Two Hours -- The Trailblazer -- Stolen Childhoods -- Opportunity -- The Mystery of Conversion -- Love, War, and an Awakening -- The Lion and the Fox -- Into the Labyrinth -- The Crash -- Alaric's Dying Ambitions -- Smoldering Ruins and a Lost Key.
520			_a"Did "barbarians" really cause the catastrophic collapse of civilization? Boin is the first to give an historically sound account from the "barbarian" perspective, through the life of Alaric the Goth. On August 24, 410 A.D., the Senate and the People of Rome awoke to a seismic shock. Intruders, led by a disaffected forty-year-old immigrant, known only as Alaric, had stormed the city. There were kidnappings, robbery, and acts of arson. The effects were long-lasting. Within two generations, Rome's world fell apart. A city predicted to rule an empire without end, in the words of its famous Latin poet Virgil, was governed by a savage band of foreigners, called Goths. Alaric the Goth offers a deeply researched look at the end of the Roman Empire but from a surprising point-of-view. Offering the first full-length biography of Alaric, a talented and frustrated immigrant living in a time of pervasive bigotry, state-supported Christian violence, and irrational xenophobia, it breaks out of decades of tired, traditional approaches to the period, most of which overidentify with the Roman people. And it reveals the lasting contributions Goths made to legal history, to the values of religious toleration, and to modern ideas of citizenship. By moving this man from the borders to the center of Rome's story, it asks readers to think deeply and differently about the lives of marginalized people too often invisible in our history books."-- _cProvided by publisher.
600	0	0	_aAlaric _bI, _cKing of the Visigoths, _d-410.
650		0	_aVisigoths _xKings and rulers _vBiography.
651		0	_aRome _xHistory _yGermanic Invasions, 3rd-6th centuries. _9135410
655		7	_aBiographies. _2lcgft _9870
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