Escape from Rome - The Failure of Empire and the Road to Prosperity (The Princeton Economic History of the Western World) - Softcover

Buch 37 von 55: The Princeton Economic History of the Western World

Scheidel, Walter

 
9780691216737: Escape from Rome - The Failure of Empire and the Road to Prosperity (The Princeton Economic History of the Western World)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0691216738 ISBN 13: 9780691216737
Verlag: Princeton University Press, 2021

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The gripping story of how the end of the Roman Empire was the beginning of the modern world

The fall of the Roman Empire has long been considered one of the greatest disasters in history. But in this groundbreaking book, Walter Scheidel argues that Rome's dramatic collapse was actually the best thing that ever happened, clearing the path for Europe's economic rise and the creation of the modern age. Ranging across the entire premodern world, Escape from Rome offers new answers to some of the biggest questions in history: Why did the Roman Empire appear? Why did nothing like it ever return to Europe? And, above all, why did Europeans come to dominate the world? In an absorbing narrative that begins with ancient Rome but stretches far beyond it, from Byzantium to China and from Genghis Khan to Napoleon, Scheidel shows how the demise of Rome and the enduring failure of empire-building on European soil launched an economic transformation that changed the continent and ultimately the world.

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Walter Scheidel is the Dickason Professor in the Humanities, Professor of Classics and History, and a Kennedy-Grossman Fellow in Human Biology at Stanford University. His many books include The Great Leveler (Princeton). Twitter @WalterScheidel

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Verlag
Princeton University Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2021
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0691216738
ISBN 13 
9780691216737
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Anzahl der Seiten
704
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