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

by Kyle Harper

Book Overview

How devastating viruses, pandemics, and other natural catastrophes swept through the far-flung Roman Empire and helped to bring down one of the mightiest civilizations of the ancient world

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 played...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691166838
• ISBN13: 9780691166834
• Release Date: October 2017
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 440 Pages
• Weight: 2.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.4" x 9.3"