Robin Seager has updated his classic biography of Tiberius, which focuses on the Emperor s complex character as the key to understanding his reign. The most readable account available of the life of Tiberius, the second Roman emperor. Argues that Tiberius character provides the key to understanding his reign. Portrays Tiberius as a man whose virtues and beliefs were corrupted by power. Shows how Tiberius fears of conspiracy and assassination caused him to lose his grasp of reality.
The volume is divided into three parts, corresponding to the three main phases in Gothic history: their early history down to the fourth century, the revolution in Gothic society set in motion by the arrival of the Huns, and the history of the Gothic successor states to the western Roman Empire
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This book is a comprehensive introduction to the study of language contact and its outcomes, as well as the social and linguistic factors involved.An Introduction to Contact Linguistics examines a wide range of language contact phenomena from both general linguistic and sociolinguistic perspectives. It provides an account of current approaches to all of the major types of contact-induced change. Each chapter describes both the linguistic and social aspects of the contact situation
Understanding of rivers and their sediments, both as modern systems and as ancient counterparts in the geological record, has progressed steadily but markedly over the past several decades, with contributions by practitioners in diverse fields of geosciences and engineering
This is an introduction to those aspects of sociolinguistics broadly described as the sociology of language; the effect of language and dialect differences on society.Beginning with a general description of the social consequences of several languages being used in one society, Ralph Fasold moves on to discuss ''diglossia'', the phenomena by which social functions are assigned to languages and dialects in a predictable manner