Escape from Rome: The Failure of Empire and the Road to Prosperity

(Book #94 in the The Princeton Economic History of the Western World Series)

by Walter Scheidel

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The gripping story of how the end of the Roman Empire was the beginning of the modern world

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...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0691172188

ISBN13:9780691172187

Release Date:October 2019

Publisher:Princeton University Press

Length:696 Pages

Weight:2.90 lbs.

Dimensions:2.2" x 6.4" x 9.3"

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Escape from Rome: The Failure of Empire and the Road to Prosperity

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