Why empires fall: Rome, America, and the future of the West
Heather, Peter.
Why empires fall: Rome, America, and the future of the West - New Haven Yale University Press 2023 - v, 188 pages ill. (black and white), maps (black and white) ; 23 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 173-180) and index.
Over the last three centuries, the West rose to dominate the planet. Then, suddenly, around the turn of the millennium, history reversed. Faced with economic stagnation and internal political division, the West has found itself in rapid decline.
This is not the first time the global order has witnessed such a dramatic rise and fall. The Roman Empire followed a similar arc from dizzying power to disintegration - a fact that is more than a strange historical coincidence. In Why Empires Fall, historian Peter Heather and political economist John Rapley use this Roman past to think anew about the contemporary West, its state of crisis, and what paths we could take out of it.
978-0141991160
Civilization, Western. Regression (Civilization) Imperialism--History.
909.982
Why empires fall: Rome, America, and the future of the West - New Haven Yale University Press 2023 - v, 188 pages ill. (black and white), maps (black and white) ; 23 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 173-180) and index.
Over the last three centuries, the West rose to dominate the planet. Then, suddenly, around the turn of the millennium, history reversed. Faced with economic stagnation and internal political division, the West has found itself in rapid decline.
This is not the first time the global order has witnessed such a dramatic rise and fall. The Roman Empire followed a similar arc from dizzying power to disintegration - a fact that is more than a strange historical coincidence. In Why Empires Fall, historian Peter Heather and political economist John Rapley use this Roman past to think anew about the contemporary West, its state of crisis, and what paths we could take out of it.
978-0141991160
Civilization, Western. Regression (Civilization) Imperialism--History.
909.982