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This is more or less how more recent scholarship looks at complicated, long-term multi-modal sort of events and changes. Fate of Rome is a fairly recent book th
by pvg 4y ago
This is more or less how more recent scholarship looks at complicated, long-term multi-modal sort of events and changes. Fate of Rome is a fairly recent book that examines things like disease and climate change, for instance:
https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691166834/the-fate-of-rome https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691166834/th...
- gloryjulio 4y agoI don't know if that's a new viewpoint. I have been hearing about how the island and frequent disasters shaped Japan for as long as I remember.
- pvg 4y agoIt's definitely newer than Gibbon, in the case of the fall of the Roman empire.