Isbn: 9780965067201 - Chronicles of the Barbarians (22 results)

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Condition: Good. DUST JACKET HAS SOME MINOR SHELF WEAR BUT BOOK REMAINS IN GOOD READABLE CONDITION. hardcover 100% of proceeds go to charity! Good condition with all pages in tact. Item shows signs of use and may have cosmetic defects.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Bright and fine book and jacket - looks new with no wear or markings. Map end papers. Several full-color sections of illustrations.

Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. blue & black 1/2 cloth hardbound 4to ~ 4º (quarto). large book. dustwrapper in protective brodart book jacket cover. vg cond. binding square & tight. covers have a few faint spots. minor fading to spine cloth. edges clean. contents free of markings. dustwrapper in vg+ cond. bit of rubbing at top & bottom of spine, not price clipped (no price listed). good reading copy. no library markings, store stamps, stickers, bookplates, no names, inking , underlining, remainder markings etc~. History Book Club edition. color endpaper maps. xxiv+392p. chronology. sources. biblio. index. 27 full color plates. ancient history. medieval history. world history. ancient literature. strabo. herodotus. diodorus siculus. livy. polybius. julius caesar. tacitus. ammianus marcellinus. procopius. edward gibbon. claudian. priscus. jordanes. anglosaxon chronicle.annals of st bertin. ibn fadlan. geraldus cambrensis. juvaini. c de bridia. matthew paris. ibn arabshah. robert the monk. usamah ibn murshid. doukas. goths. vikings. vandals. huns. celts. gengis khan. mongols. tatars. tamerlane. the crusades. ~ The very word "barbarians" conjures up images of savage warriors, cruel conquerors, and battles marked by ruthless carnage. This compilation of primary sources presents dozens of striking accounts of the exotic customs and fierce deeds of those considered barbarians by the writers of these eyewitness reports. The authors, mostly near~contemporaries of the events they describe, range from classical historians like Herodotus and Tacitus, to generals, ambassadors, and ordinary soldiers. In often colorful prose, they describe the exploits of legendary warriors such as Attila the Hun, Genghis Khan, and Tamerlane (reputed to erect pyramids of skulls before the gates of captured cities), along with Viking raids, Mongol invasions, epic battles, and general depravity. Beginning with an excerpt from Strabo's Geograply, Chronicles of the Barbarians takes the reader from the ancient world of the Scythians~considered barbarians not least because they couldnt speak Greek~through centuries of bloody warfare between the Romans and various foes: Britons, Germans, Gauls, and Goths of every type. By the time Attila's Huns swooped down on Europe in the fifth century, the term " barbarian" had taken on darker overtones. Huns, Vandals, Vikings, and Mongols were seen not only as Peoples who held different beliefs and practiced strange customs but as creatures of the devil and paradoxically, as instruments of God's wrath. Chronicles culminates with a fascinating chapter on the Crusades, juxtaposing the accounts of a Norman knight and a Syrian soldier each thinking of the other as the barbarian, the infidel. Together with brief introductions placing each piece in context, these narratives provide a fascinating look at the underbelly of history, from ancient Greece up to the fall of Constantinople in 1453. Indeed, in a sense, the barbarians can be considered true modernizers, for although we tend to think of them as looters and pillagers, they permeated the cultures they clashed with on every level, changing western civilization forever. As David Willis McCullough points out in his introduction, "We, surely, are the descendants not of those civilized toga wearers but of the vigorous, trouser~wearing mmigrant barbarians fron nowhere.".…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Book Club Edition. Hardcover, royal octavo, black cloth spine over dark blue boards in publisher's dust-jacket. 392 pages. Selected Bibliography, Index. Illustrated with 16 pages of color photographs. Book Club, but true first printing of this title. Firsthand accounts of pillage and conquest, from the Ancient World to the fall of Constantinople. No previous ownership marks. A clean, square, unmarked copy. Fine in a near fine dust-jacket.…

hardcover. Condition: As New. First THUS. Publisher: History Book Club, New York, 1998. FINE- hardcover book in FINE mylar-protected dust-jacket. There is a small X written in red ink near the top of the front free end paper, otherwise as new. First Edition Thus.

Hardcover. Condition: As New. History Book Club; New York, 1998. Hardcover. A Near Fine, blue and black binding with gilt lettering on spine, binding firm, interior and extremities tidy, very small soiled spot on fore-edge, very mild bending of boards, in a Near Fine, minimal handling/scuff marks to panels, mild edge/corner wear, Dust Wrapper. A nice, clean and unmarked copy. 8vo[octavo or approx. 6 x 9], 392pp., indexed, sources, bibliography, color illustrations. We pack securely and ship daily with delivery confirmation on every book. The picture on the listing page is of the actual book for sale. Additional Scan(s) are available for any item, please inquire.Please note: Oversized books/sets MAY require additional postage then what is quoted for 2.2lb book.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition.

History Book Club, New York, 1998. XXIV,392p. ills.(full colour photographs). Half cloth with dust wrps.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. Hardback in very good condition with fine condition. ISBN: 0965067202.

hardcover. Condition: New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title.