History Bury, J.B.: The Invasion of Europe by the Barbarians. v.1.0. 6 Apr 2012

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This series of lectures by the great historian of the Later Roman Empire was written to arouse the interest of an intelligent but not necessarily specialist audience, and retains today its value as a succinct and very readable account of the destruction of the western empire, from the earliest stirrings of the Germanic peoples to the Lombard settlement in the late sixth century.

Bury died in 1927, the same year the book was published, and the work has therefore been in the Canadian public domain since 1978. The situation elsewhere is, as usual, more complicated. In Britain, the copyright would have been revived by the regulations of 1995 and then expired again in 1998, 70 years after the author's death. In the U.S., since it was not in the public domain in its home country as of 1 January 1996, it would seem to fall under the "publication plus 95 years" provision and will not enter the U.S. public domain until 2023. I am not a lawyer and could well be wrong on any of this; act accordingly.

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