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
launched an economic transformation that changed the continent and
ultimately the world.
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