How Rome Fell

How Rome Fell
Author: Adrian Goldsworthy
Publisher: Yale University Press
Total Pages: 558
Release: 2009-05-12
Genre: History
ISBN: 0300155603

The author discusses how the Roman Empire--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.

Understanding Collapse

Understanding Collapse
Author: Guy D. Middleton
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 463
Release: 2017-06-26
Genre: History
ISBN: 110715149X

In this lively survey, Guy D. Middleton critically examines our ideas about collapse - how we explain it and how we have constructed potentially misleading myths around collapses - showing how and why collapse of societies was a much more complex phenomenon than is often admitted.

The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Volume 8

The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Volume 8
Author: Edward Gibbon
Publisher: Palala Press
Total Pages: 498
Release: 2015-12-05
Genre:
ISBN: 9781347421888

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The Fall of Rome

The Fall of Rome
Author: Bryan Ward-Perkins
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Total Pages: 256
Release: 2006-07-12
Genre: History
ISBN: 0191622362

Why did Rome fall? Vicious barbarian invasions during the fifth century resulted in the cataclysmic end of the world's most powerful civilization, and a 'dark age' for its conquered peoples. Or did it? The dominant view of this period today is that the 'fall of Rome' was a largely peaceful transition to Germanic rule, and the start of a positive cultural transformation. Bryan Ward-Perkins encourages every reader to think again by reclaiming the drama and violence of the last days of the Roman world, and reminding us of the very real horrors of barbarian occupation. Attacking new sources with relish and making use of a range of contemporary archaeological evidence, he looks at both the wider explanations for the disintegration of the Roman world and also the consequences for the lives of everyday Romans, in a world of economic collapse, marauding barbarians, and the rise of a new religious orthodoxy. He also looks at how and why successive generations have understood this period differently, and why the story is still so significant today.

The End of the Roman Empire

The End of the Roman Empire
Author: Donald Kagan
Publisher:
Total Pages: 204
Release: 1992
Genre: Rome
ISBN:

Among the historical questions that have been posed through the ages, none has attracted more attention over a longer period of time than the one that asks, Why did the Roman Empire in the West collapse? The selections in part 1 attempt to define the problem. Part 2 offers a selection of some of the explanations given for Rome's decay and collapse. The theme of part 3 is that the Roman Empire never fell at all, but metamorphosed into something else. - Introduction.