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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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DTL Humanities 2020 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2019] ©2019 |
| Year of Publication: | 2019 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | The Princeton Economic History of the Western World ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (696 p.) :; 29 b/w illus. 5 tables. 36 maps. |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- FIGURES AND TABLES
- TABLES
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- Introduction: The Great Escape
- PART I. The European Anomaly
- PART II. Why Rome?
- PART III. Why Only Rome?
- PART IV. The First Great Divergence
- PART V. From the First to the Second Great Divergence
- Epilogue. What Have the Romans Ever Done for Us?
- GLOSSARY
- TECHNICAL NOTE TO CHAPTER 1
- NOTES
- REFERENCES
- INDEX