books.google.com - The barbarians of the fifth and sixth centuries were long thought to be races, tribes or ethnic groups who toppled the Roman Empire and racist, nationalist assumptions about the composition of the barbarian groups still permeate much scholarship on the subject. This book proposes a new view, through...http://books.google.com/books/about/People_and_Identity_in_Ostrogothic_Italy.html?id=7ndeDi_fwq0C&utm_source=gb-gplus-sharePeople and Identity in Ostrogothic Italy