02196cam a2200301 4500 527518660 TxAuBib 20211107120000.0 ||||||s2009||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9780300155600 0300155603 B0029F1C1U Amazon 7c230acf-62cf-4e95-bdb9-dab39dfa206a OverDrive (Reserve ID) 290738 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Goldsworthy, Adrian. How Rome Fell [Libby eBook] : Death of a Superpower. Yale University Press, 2009. Format: OverDrive Adobe PDF eBook, Filesize: 3457kB. Format: OverDrive Kindle Book. ancient. Rome. HTML:<p>In AD 200, the Roman Empire seemed unassailable. Its vast territory accounted for most of the known world.&#160;By the end of the fifth century, Roman rule had vanished in western Europe and much of northern Africa, and only a shrunken Eastern Empire remained.&#160;What accounts for this improbable decline?&#160;Here, Adrian Goldsworthy applies the scholarship, perspective, and narrative skill that defined his monumental Caesar to address perhaps the greatest of all historical questions? How Rome fell.&#160;It was a period of remarkable personalities, from the philosopher-emperor Marcus Aurelius to emperors like Diocletian, who portrayed themselves as tough, even brutal, soldiers.&#160;It was a time of revolutionary ideas, especially in religion, as Christianity went from persecuted sect to the religion of state and emperors.&#160;Goldsworthy pays particular attention to the willingness of Roman soldiers to fight and kill each other. Ultimately, this is the story of how an empire without a serious rival rotted from within, its rulers and institutions putting short-term ambition and personal survival over the wider good of the state.&#160;How Rome Fell is a brilliant successor to Goldsworthy's "monumental" (The Atlantic) Caesar.</p>. Nonfiction. History. Media Type: eBook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2021-11-04 17:40:22. Weidenfeld & Nicolson.