How Rome fell : death of a superpower /
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.
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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New Haven, CT :
Yale University Press,
2009.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- pt. 1. Crisis? The third century. The kingdom of gold
- The secret of empire
- Imperial women
- King of kings
- Barbarians
- The queen and the 'necessary' emperor
- Crisis
- pt. 2. Recovery? The fourth century. The four--Diocletian and the tetrarchy
- The Christian
- Rivals
- Enemies
- The pagan
- Goths
- East and west
- pt. 3. Fall? The fifth and sixth centuries. Barbarians and Romans : generals and rebels
- The sister and the eternal city
- The Hun
- Sunset on an outpost of empire
- Emperors, kings and warlords
- West and east
- Rise and fall.