Kyle HARPER, The Fate of Rome. Climate, Disease, and the End of an Empire, Princeton University Press, Princeton and Oxford, 2017, 418 p. (Alexandru BALTAG) Cover Image

Kyle HARPER, The Fate of Rome. Climate, Disease, and the End of an Empire, Princeton University Press, Princeton and Oxford, 2017, 418 p. (Alexandru BALTAG)
Kyle HARPER, The Fate of Rome. Climate, Disease, and the End of an Empire, Princeton University Press, Princeton and Oxford, 2017, 418 p. (Alexandru BALTAG)

Author(s): Alexandru Baltag
Subject(s): History, Anthropology, Essay|Book Review |Scientific Life, Ancient World, Book-Review
Published by: Muzeul de Istorie Națională și Arheologie Constanța
Keywords: Rome; empire; roman civilisation;

Summary/Abstract: This review is based on The Fate of Rome. Climate, Disease & the End of an Empire work, sign of Kyle Harper, which contributes to the enrichment of the historiographical landscape regardingn the problem of the fall of the Roman Empire, a dilemma frequently debated and never completely closed by historians everywhere, being a complex, long process duration, with multiple valences, political, social, economic and not only, so as the author in this paper shows.

  • Issue Year: 2018
  • Issue No: 51
  • Page Range: 626-630
  • Page Count: 5
  • Language: Romanian