[PDF] The Vandals eBook

Author : Andrew Merrills
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 33,2 MB
Release : 2009-12-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9781444318081

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The Vandals is the first book available in the EnglishLanguage dedicated to exploring the sudden rise and dramatic fallof this complex North African Kingdom. This complete historyprovides a full account of the Vandals and re-evaluates key aspectsof the society including: Political and economic structures such as the complexforeign policy which combined diplomatic alliances and marriageswith brutal raiding The extraordinary cultural development of secular learning,and the religious struggles that threatened to tear the stateapart The nature of Vandal identity from a social and genderperspective.

Author : Torsten Cumberland Jacobsen
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 27,44 MB
Release : 2019-04-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781594163319

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The First General History in English of the Germanic People Who Sacked Rome in the Fifth Century AD and Established a Kingdom in North Africa One of the most fascinating of late antiquity were the Vandals, who over a period of six hundred years had migrated from the woodland regions of Scandinavia across Europe and ended in the deserts of North Africa. In A History of the Vandals, the first general account in English covering the entire story of the Vandals from their emergence to the end of their kingdom, historian Torsten Cumberland Jacobsen pieces together what we know about the Vandals, sifting fact from fiction.

Author : Simon MacDowall
Publisher : Pen and Sword
Page : 195 pages
File Size : 31,89 MB
Release : 2016-07-31
Category : History
ISBN : 147388022X

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An up-close look at the Germanic people who sacked Rome in the fifth century AD. On 31 December AD 406, a group of German tribes crossed the Rhine, pierced the Roman defensive lines, and began a rampage across Roman Gaul, sacking cities such as Metz, Arras, and Strasbourg. Foremost amongst them were the Vandals, and their search for a new homeland took them on the most remarkable odyssey. The Romans were unable to stop them and their closest allies, the Alans, marching the breadth of Gaul, crossing the Pyrenees, and making themselves masters of Spain. However, this kingdom of the Vandals and Alans soon came under intense pressure from Rome’s Visigothic allies. In 429, under their new king, Gaiseric, they crossed the straits of Gibraltar to North Africa. They quickly overran this rich Roman province and established a stable kingdom. Taking to the seas, they soon dominated the Western Mediterranean and raided Italy, famously sacking Rome itself in 455. Eventually, however, they were utterly conquered by Belisarius in 533 and vanished from history. Simon MacDowall narrates and analyzes these events, with particular focus on the evolution of Vandal armies and warfare.

Author : Jeremy Simmonds
Publisher : Chicago Review Press
Page : 850 pages
File Size : 47,61 MB
Release : 2012-11-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 161374532X

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The bible of music's deceased idols—Jeff Buckley, Sid Vicious, Jimi Hendrix, Tupac, Elvis—this is the ultimate record of all those who arrived, rocked, and checked out over the last 40-odd years of fast cars, private jets, hard drugs, and reckless living. The truths behind thousands of fascinating stories—such as how Buddy Holly only decided to fly so he'd have time to finish his laundry—are coupled with perennial questions, including Which band boasts the most dead members? and Who had the bright idea of changing a light bulb while standing in the shower?, as well as a few tales of lesser-known rock tragedies. Updated to include all the rock deaths since the previous edition—including Ike Turner, Dan Fogelberg, Bo Diddley, Isaac Hayes, Eartha Kitt, Michael Jackson, Clarence Clemons, Amy Winehouse, and many, many more—this new edition has been comprehensively revised throughout. An indispensable reference full of useful and useless information, with hundreds of photos of the good, the bad, and the silly, this collection is guaranteed to rock the world of trivia buffs and diehards alike.

Author : Nancy Veglahn
Publisher :
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 38,88 MB
Release : 1974
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780883752005

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While being punished for vandalism, four children find out the true history of the old house they are cleaning and campaign to have it preserved as a historical monument.

Author : Karen Eva Carr
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 18,63 MB
Release : 2002
Category : History
ISBN : 9780472108916

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Sheds light on settlement patterns in early medieval Spain and demonstrates the local effect of the collapse of Roman Government

Author : Thomas Hodgkin
Publisher :
Page : 694 pages
File Size : 21,9 MB
Release : 1996
Category : History
ISBN :

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This work explores Attila's rise and rule over the Huns in the 440s, when Vandals, Ostrogoths, Gepids and Franks were also fighting under his banner.

Author : Peg Kehret
Publisher : Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 11,2 MB
Release : 2008-08-21
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9781416984849

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It takes a dog to smell danger! Before Rosie could stop him, Bone Breath shot out from behind the car where she and Kayo hid and began barking at the vandals who were destroying the school statue. Recklessly, Rosie tried to rescue Bone Breath -- only to be caught by the vandals herself! They're big. They're bad. And they're determined to make sure she disappears. Rosie's running for her life -- hoping her best friend Kayo can bring help before it's too late!

Author : Gregory J. Millman
Publisher : Simon & Schuster
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 14,90 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN :

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In The Vandals' Crown, Gregory Millman paints a vivid picture of the new revolutionaries, both the famous and the little known, and he reveals the inside story of the revolution that has stripped governments of their power to control money. Today, traders have taken the law into their own hands. Like vigilantes, they enforce fundamental economic laws not for love of law but for profit, regardless of what regulators or central bankers may think. They are the reason why the Japanese government was powerless to stop the collapse of the Tokyo stock market in 1990; why the concerted actions of all the Western European countries were unable to roll back a speculative attack on the European Monetary System in 1992; why the U.S. government was unable to stop the slide of the dollar in 1994; why Mexico, Orange County, and numerous corporate losses made dire headlines in 1994 and 1995. The new financial vigilantes move more than $1 trillion every day in currency alone - more than all the cars, wheat, oil, and other products traded in the so-called "real" economy. The Vandals' Crown may be the most important story in modern financial history.

Author : Richard J. Cox
Publisher : Praeger
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 17,69 MB
Release : 2002-06-30
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN :

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