History of Migration

In his superlative history of the migration of peoples, Mischa Meier shows how often people who lived between the third and the eighth century BC experienced such deadly dread of the approaching armies of foreign powers. The book spans the period of the late Roman Empire, the history of post-Roman powers in the West, the early Byzantine Empire as well as the early Islamic Caliphate up the end of the Umayyad period (750). With a wealth of information, yet always gripping and readable, Meier takes his readers from the European and North African coasts of the North Atlantic, via the Central Asian hub of the Silk Road, to North India and the Hindu Kush; from Scandinavia and Britain in the north all the way to Arabia in the south. A true magnum opus that, for the first time, offers a comprehensive history of the epoch and give its readers a clear sense of the far-reaching process of change triggered by the migration of peoples.