Hyun Jin Kim is Lecturer in Classics at the University of Melbourne, Australia.

Introduction
-Inner Asia: The Homeland of the Huns
-Nomads? The Huns, a heterogeneous agro-pastoralist society
-The Quest for Ethnicity and Origins: Who are the Huns?

Chapter 1: The Xiongnu Hun Empire
-Political Organisation of the Xiongnu Huns
-Political History of the Xiongnu Huns
-Southern Xiongnu and Xianbei conquest of China
-Archaeology of the Xiongnu

Chapter 2: The so-called 'two-hundred years interlude'

Chapter 3: The Huns of Central Asia and South Asia: The Kidarite and Hephthalite White Huns
-Who were the White Huns?
-White Hunnic Expansion and the Kidarite Dynasty
-White Hunnic Empire at its zenith under the Hephthalite Dynasty
-Later Hunnic States in Central Asia and South Asia
-Political Organisation and Culture of the White Huns
-Hunnic Impact on Iran and India

Chapter 4: The Huns of Europe
-Pre-Hunnic Huns?
-Europe on the eve of Hunnic arrival
-The Invasion of the Huns
-Uldin
-Ruga and Octar
-Hunnic Political Organisation in Europe

Chapter 5: Attila the Hun
-Bleda and Attila
-Attila as the supreme ruler
-Attila invades the West

Chapter 6: The Huns after Attila
-Hunnic Civil War and the dissolution of the Hunnic Empire
-Post-Attila kings of Europe
-Brief Reunification and Final Dissolution of the western Hunnic Realm

Chapter 7: The Huns of the Pontic steppes: the Utigur-Kutrigur 'Bulgar' Huns
-The Oghurs
-The Political History of the Bulgar Huns, the Caucasian Huns and the Avars

Chapter 8: The Legacy of the Huns
-Redrawing the political map of Europe
-Impact of the Hun Inner Asian political model
-The impact of the Huns and Alans on European military practices
-Cultural and artistic influence of the Huns in the light of archaeological evidence

Conclusion