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7 best books like Later Roman Empire (Averil Cameron): The Thieves' Opera, The Fall of the Roman Empire, Ecological Imperialism: The Biological Expansion of Europe, 900-1900 (Studies in Environment and History), Star Wars: The Magic of Myth, The Fall of Rome and the End of Civilization, The Fall of the Roman Empire: A New History of Rome and the Barbarians, The Ruin of the Roman Empire: A New History

The Thieves' Opera
AuthorLucy Moore
ISBN0156006405
Georgian London was a city of extraordinary contrast: its elegance and refinement thrived amid appalling filth and foul smells, decadence and depravity. Crime was everywhere, from pickpockets and prostitutes to murderous highwaymen, as London bulged with riches from its overseas colonies. The...
The Fall of the Roman Empire
AuthorMichael Grant
ISBN0684829568
This fall of the Roman Empire has always been regarded as one of the most significant transformations in the whole of human history. A hundred years before it occurred, Rome was an immense power defended by an invincible army. A hundred years later, the power and the army had vanished.

The Fall...
Ecological Imperialism: The Biological Expansion of Europe, 900-1900 (Studies in Environment and History)
AuthorAlfred W. Crosby
ISBN0521546184
People of European descent form the bulk of the population in most of the temperate zones of the world--North America, Australia and New Zealand. The military successes of European imperialism are easy to explain because in many cases they were achieved by using firearms against spears. Alfred Crosby,...
Star Wars: The Magic of Myth
AuthorMary Henderson
ISBN0553378104
The story of "Star Wars," "The Empire Strikes Back," and "Return of the Jedi" has had such an influence on our culture that it prompted Joseph Campbell, one of the most original and influential thinkers of our time, to hail the trilogy as a masterpiece of "creative mythology" - a work of art that gives new...
The Fall of Rome and the End of Civilization
AuthorBryan Ward-Perkins
ISBN0192807285
Was the fall of Rome a great catastrophe that cast the West into darkness for centuries to come? Or, as scholars argue today, was there no crisis at all, but simply a peaceful blending of barbarians into Roman culture, an essentially positive transformation?

In The Fall of Rome, eminent historian...
The Fall of the Roman Empire: A New History of Rome and the Barbarians
AuthorPeter Heather
ISBN0195325419
A leading authority on the late Roman Empire and on the barbarians, Heather relates the extraordinary story of how Europe's barbarians, transformed by centuries of contact with Rome on every possible level, eventually pulled the empire apart. He shows first how the Huns overtuned the existing strategic...
The Ruin of the Roman Empire: A New History
AuthorJames J. O'Donnell
ISBN0060787376
This is not exactly a Fall of the Roman Empire book in the usual sense - it actually is concerned with the hundred years or so after the traditional date of 476 A.D. (and the deposition of Romulus Augustulus, traditionally seen as the "last" Roman emperor). In particular, the book examines and criticizes...
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