Escape from Rome : : The Failure of Empire and the Road to Prosperity / / Walter Scheidel.
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. But in this groundbreaking book, Walter Scheidel argues that Rome's dramatic collapse was actually the best...
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