The Fate of Rome : : Climate, Disease, and the End of an Empire /

The Fate of Rome : : Climate, Disease, and the End of an Empire / / Kyle Harper.

A sweeping new history of how climate change and disease helped bring down the Roman EmpireHere 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 chang...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DTL Humanities 2020
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Harper, Kyle,
Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2017]
©2018
Year of Publication:2017
Language:English
Series:The Princeton History of the Ancient World ; 2
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Physical Description:1 online resource (440 p.) :; 20 halftones. 27 line illus. 16 tables. 26 maps.
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Maps
  • Timeline
  • Nature’s Triumph
  • Environment and Empire
  • The Happiest Age
  • Apollo’s Revenge
  • The Old Age of the World
  • Fortune’s Rapid Wheel
  • The Wine - Press of Wrath
  • Judgment Day
  • Epilogue: Humanity’s Triumph?
  • Acknowledgments
  • Appendixes
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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