Professor Peter Heather writes on the formation of europe after the fall of Rome

Rex Reed Jr
  Professor Peter Heather is one of the premier historian authors on the circuit and his massive book called "Empires and Barbarians" looks at the causes and results of barbarian migrations throughout Europe as roman power was collapsing all around. the implications of todays Muslim migration and eventual takeover should be a practical lesson for todays suicidal leaders allowing modern day barbarians and religious extremists within their midst. throughout this book professor Heather tries to figure out these migration patterns and why so many dam Slavs took over large sections of formally Germanic tribe holdings in Eastern Europe. No book on European migration history and fall of Rome would be complete without examining the Huns, which professor heather does intuitively as the key force driving much of the movement of peoples that pretty much broke down the borders and ability of the Roman Empire to control and process maintenance of order. The incorporation of other peoples to make ones tribe stronger and be a reckon of force against the empire of Rome is evident through the dates and facts perpetuated in this book he also reexamines the movement of the Franks and Anglo Saxon tribes and questions if their migrations into Celtic lands were less of a land grab and more of a establishment of Celts becoming Anglocized no different that European immigrants becoming Americanized at the turn of the last century and throughout American history. The fact that the old Roman elite orders would quickly be replaced was indication of the weakening of their cultural dominance as new people moved from Germania throughout the English isles and a creation of a new dynamic expansionist people would be produced. The Viking diaspora is examined as well as Vikings south out the wealth that was being hoarded in these new institutions called the church of a following called Christianity that was spreading far and out. The Viking expansionist and raiding would be the European forerunner to later sea exploration that the Portuguese and Spanish would seek out riches in India and so forth overseas centuries later. the battle between European Slav and European German would continue for centuries leading to one of the most brutal warfare of all kind in the middle of the twentieth century. Historians often looked at the very people at the top and leaders throughout history but as this book proves the more lasting impact were the wanderers and farmers of Europe whose ability to transverse empires and lands made much more of a lasting impact than any coroneted queen or king and we see implications today of the masses rising up and preventing the elites from having their lands and riches with Hillary Clinton's coronation denied by a massive resistance movement. This book kicks ass for those interested in European history and the spreading and mystery of the Slavs and how and why they came to predominate so much of the Eurasian landmass. the formation of Barbarian Europe into one organized by state power by 1000 would have a tremendous impact for the rest of the world which considered Europe a backwater of little value and importance land of insignificant people who were basically ..barbarians .