1. Introduction; 2. Rome's inner Asian enemies before the Huns; 3. The Huns in Central Asia; 4. The Huns in Europe; 5. The end of the Hunnic Empire in the West; 6. The later Huns and the birth of Europe; 7. Conclusion.
A comparative and interdisciplinary study arguing for a more sophisticated appreciation of the rise of the Hunnic Empire.
Hyun Jin Kim is the Australian Research Council DECRA Fellow at the University of Sydney. His first book, published in 2009, was a comparative analysis of Greece and China: Ethnicity and Foreigners in Ancient Greece and China. He has taught Greek history and Greek literature at Sydney University and has also given numerous invited talks and special seminars in the US, UK, Australia, New Zealand, Greece and Kazakhstan on topics related to comparative literature, Greece and the Near East, and the importance of wider Eurasia to the study of Greco-Roman civilization. He is currently undertaking a research project funded by the Australian government titled Transfer of Hegemony: Geopolitical Revolutions in World History.
'Gets my vote for the freshness of its worldview.' Peter Heather,
BBC History Magazine
'Kim argues that the Huns played a large and positive role in the
fall of Rome and the birth of Europe … This challenging
reassessment … should be in all research libraries. Highly
recommended. Upper-division undergraduates and above.' G. G.
Guzman, Choice
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