Escape from Rome: The Failure of Empire and the Road to Prosperity Scheidel Walter
Escape from Rome: The Failure of Empire and the Road to Prosperity Scheidel Walter The gripping story of how the end of the Roman Empire was the beginning of the modern worldThe fall of the Roman…
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Escape from Rome: The Failure of Empire and the Road to Prosperity Scheidel Walter
The gripping story of how the end of the Roman Empire was the beginning of the modern worldThe fall of the Roman Empire has long been considered one of the greatest disasters in history. 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? 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.
And, above all, why did Europeans come to dominate the world? Why did nothing like it ever return to Europe? 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
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