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Escape from Rome

By Walter Scheidel

Escape from Rome Business, Finance & Career

Escape from Rome

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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.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Number of Pages:
704
Release Date:
2021-03-16
Publication Date:
2021-03-16
Publisher:
Princeton University Press
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
0691216738
ISBN13:
9780691216737
Weight:
644 g
Height:
123 cm
Width:
203 cm
Thickness:
51 cm
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