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发表于2025-02-16
The Fate of Rome pdf epub mobi txt 電子書 下載 2025
A sweeping new history of how climate change and disease helped bring down the Roman Empire
Here is the monumental retelling of one of the most consequential chapters of human history: the fall of the Roman Empire. The Fate of Rome is the first book to examine the catastrophic role that climate change and infectious diseases played in the collapse of Rome’s power—a story of nature’s triumph over human ambition.
Interweaving a grand historical narrative with cutting-edge climate science and genetic discoveries, Kyle Harper traces how the fate of Rome was decided not just by emperors, soldiers, and barbarians but also by volcanic eruptions, solar cycles, climate instability, and devastating viruses and bacteria. He takes readers from Rome’s pinnacle in the second century, when the empire seemed an invincible superpower, to its unraveling by the seventh century, when Rome was politically fragmented and materially depleted. Harper describes how the Romans were resilient in the face of enormous environmental stress, until the besieged empire could no longer withstand the combined challenges of a “little ice age” and recurrent outbreaks of bubonic plague.
A poignant reflection on humanity’s intimate relationship with the environment, The Fate of Rome provides a sweeping account of how one of history’s greatest civilizations encountered and endured, yet ultimately succumbed to the cumulative burden of nature’s violence. The example of Rome is a timely reminder that climate change and germ evolution have shaped the world we inhabit—in ways that are surprising and profound.
First published in 2017.
Kyle Harper is professor of classics and letters and senior vice president and provost at the University of Oklahoma. He is the author of Slavery in the Late Roman World, AD 275–425 and From Shame to Sin: The Christian Transformation of Sexual Morality in Late Antiquity. He lives in Norman, Oklahoma.
Kyle Harper is a historian of the classical world and the Senior Vice President and Provost at his alma mater, the University of Oklahoma.
He graduated summa cum laude with a degree in Letters from OU and then received his Ph.D. in History from Harvard University in 2007.
四星半。Climate Change and the Decline of Rome 非常有意思的題目,關注人應對環境變化這一維度,算是這一單薄的領域中少有的佳作瞭。Woolf對本書提齣的一大遺憾是,人對環境的形塑與改造,以及由此引發的人與環境的矛盾,在本書中地位仍然不高。雖然Harper聲稱自己並不忽視人類力量,但他寫齣的東西好像比聲稱的要弱一些。相比來說,Harper做掉瞭相對好辦的工作(不,其實已經很難做瞭),還有下一步等待推進。
評分Informative and adaptable
評分四星半。Climate Change and the Decline of Rome 非常有意思的題目,關注人應對環境變化這一維度,算是這一單薄的領域中少有的佳作瞭。Woolf對本書提齣的一大遺憾是,人對環境的形塑與改造,以及由此引發的人與環境的矛盾,在本書中地位仍然不高。雖然Harper聲稱自己並不忽視人類力量,但他寫齣的東西好像比聲稱的要弱一些。相比來說,Harper做掉瞭相對好辦的工作(不,其實已經很難做瞭),還有下一步等待推進。
評分Informative and adaptable
評分四星半。Climate Change and the Decline of Rome 非常有意思的題目,關注人應對環境變化這一維度,算是這一單薄的領域中少有的佳作瞭。Woolf對本書提齣的一大遺憾是,人對環境的形塑與改造,以及由此引發的人與環境的矛盾,在本書中地位仍然不高。雖然Harper聲稱自己並不忽視人類力量,但他寫齣的東西好像比聲稱的要弱一些。相比來說,Harper做掉瞭相對好辦的工作(不,其實已經很難做瞭),還有下一步等待推進。
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