The Fate of Rome: Climate, Disease, and the End of an Empire by Kyle Harper

The Fate of Rome: Climate, Disease, and the End of an Empire

The Princeton History of the Ancient World

Kyle Harper

440 pages first pub 2017 (editions)

nonfiction history science informative slow-paced

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A sweeping new history of how climate change and disease helped bring down the Roman EmpireHere 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 boo...

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