Comments on: Book review – Escape from Rome: The Failure of Empire and the Road to Prosperity/2021/03/24/book-review-escape-from-rome-the-failure-of-empire-and-the-road-to-prosperity/Reviewing fascinating science books since 2017Sat, 08 Feb 2025 20:19:09 +0000hourly1http://wordpress.com/By: Book review – The World the Plague Made: The Black Death and the Rise of Europe | The Inquisitive Biologist/2021/03/24/book-review-escape-from-rome-the-failure-of-empire-and-the-road-to-prosperity/comment-page-1/#comment-61375Mon, 05 Dec 2022 15:38:25 +0000/?p=12999#comment-61375[…] though the plague is rarely one of them. The last time I touched on this topic was in my review of Escape from Rome, which argued that Europe’s rise to power depended on there not being a Roman-scale empire to […]

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]]>By: smellincoffee/2021/03/24/book-review-escape-from-rome-the-failure-of-empire-and-the-road-to-prosperity/comment-page-1/#comment-18486Wed, 24 Mar 2021 19:27:59 +0000/?p=12999#comment-18486As an historian by education and (partially) by profession, the premise fascinates me. I may have to look for this one after my current “to read” stack stops being the 8th summit of the world…

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