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The Fate of Rome by Kyle Harper
Category: History | Series: The\Princeton History of the Ancient World Ser.
How climate change and disease helped to 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 ...Show more
The Fate of Rome: Climate, Disease, and the End of an Empire by Kyle Harper
Category: History | Series: The Princeton History of the Ancient World
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 ...Show more
The Rise and Fall of Classical Greece by Josiah Ober
Category: History | Series: Princeton History of the Ancient World
Lord Byron described Greece as great, fallen, and immortal, a characterization more apt than he knew. Through most of its long history, Greece was poor. But in the classical era, Greece was densely populated and highly urbanized. Many surprisingly healthy Greeks lived in remarkably big houses and worked ...Show more
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