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Escape from Rome - The Failure of Empire and the Road to Prosperity (Hardcover)
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Escape from Rome - The Failure of Empire and the Road to Prosperity (Hardcover)
Series: The Princeton Economic History of the Western World
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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 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
ensured competitive fragmentation between and within states. This
rich diversity encouraged political, economic, scientific, and
technological breakthroughs that allowed Europe to surge ahead
while other parts of the world lagged behind, burdened as they were
by traditional empires and predatory regimes that lived by
conquest. It wasn't until Europe "escaped" from Rome that it
launched an economic transformation that changed the continent and
ultimately the world. What has the Roman Empire ever done for us?
Fall and go away.
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