Oral interviews, conducted in Toronto by the author and other researchers, enhance this volume. The book sheds light on a much contested subject which continues to fuel debate from Skopje, Athens and Sofia to Toronto and Melbourne.

This innovative book takes seriously the ordinary activities of entrepreneurship and maps out new pathways for scholars to understand the nature, properties, and implications of studying practices for entrepreneurship studies.

The book closes with a detailed look at the career of Alaric, the powerful Gothic general who sacked the city of Rome in 410.

Heather's well-written and lucid study examines the collision of Goths and Romans in the fourth and fifth centuries.