EAN: 9780691216737

ESCAPE FROM ROME - THE FAILURE OF EMPIRE AND TH...

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.

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