Kyle Harper

Gebundenes Buch

The Fate of Rome

Climate, Disease, and the End of an Empire

Beschreibung

A sweeping new history of how climate change and disease helped bring down the Roman Empire Here is the monumental retelling of one of the most consequential chapters of human history: the fall of the Roman Empire. The Fate of Rome is the first book to examine the catastrophic role that climate change and infectious diseases played in the collapse

Autor

Kyle Harper

Produktdetails

• The Princeton History of the Ancient World
• Verlag: Princeton University Press
• Seitenzahl: 440
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. Oktober 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 246mm x 162mm x 35mm
• Gewicht: 664g
• ISBN-13: 9780691166834
• ISBN-10: 0691166838
• Artikelnr.: 47738105

Rezensionen

"In this riveting history, Kyle Harper shows that disease and environmental conditions were not just instrumental in the final collapse of the Roman Empire but were serious problems for centuries before the fall. Harper's compelling and cautionary tale documents the deadly plagues, fevers, and other pestilences that ravaged the population time and again, resulting in far more deaths than ever caused by enemy forces. One wonders - like Edward Gibbon - how the empire managed to last as long as it did."--Eric H. Cline, author of 1177 B.C.: The Year Civilization Collapsed