Comments on: Book review – The Fate of Rome: Climate, Disease, & the End of an Empire

By: Book review – The Earth Transformed: An Untold History | The Inquisitive Biologist

Fri, 31 Mar 2023 11:20:12 +0000

[…] cities, the collapse of empires under the strain of resource exhaustion and natural disasters, the Roman Climate Optimum, the Little Ice Age, the Black Death and its long shadow, and sundry natural disasters, including […]

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By: Book review – Plagues upon the Earth: Disease and the Course of Human History | The Inquisitive Biologist

Mon, 20 Dec 2021 11:02:27 +0000

[…] but a little perspective helps. Historian Kyle Harper previously impressed me with his study on the role of climate and disease in the decline of the Roman Empire. In Plagues Upon the Earth, he offers a global, multidisciplinary environmental history of […]

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By: Book review – The Science of Roman History: Biology, Climate, and the Future of the Past | The Inquisitive Biologist

Thu, 05 Nov 2020 15:43:43 +0000

[…] of past climates. I say appropriately as it was while reviewing Harper’s wonderful book The Fate of Rome that I first learned that this book was being written. The authors here give a crash course on the […]

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By: Book review – How History Gets Things Wrong: The Neuroscience of Our Addiction to Stories | The Inquisitive Biologist

Wed, 12 Aug 2020 19:31:13 +0000

[…] data from other disciplines that we get a clearer picture. I expect he will welcome books such as The Fate of Rome and especially The Science of Roman History, which specifically answers the question of what other […]

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By: Book review – The Mosquito: A Human History of Our Deadliest Predator | The Inquisitive Biologist

Sat, 08 Aug 2020 14:37:23 +0000

[…] military campaigns of Alexander the Great, Ancient Rome (with a nod to Harper’s magnificent The Fate of Rome), the Crusades, and the Mongol hordes of Genghis Khan and subsequent barbaric invasions. More […]

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By: Book review – Tree Story: The History of the World Written in Rings | The Inquisitive Biologist

Mon, 18 May 2020 15:30:14 +0000

[…] was illuminated (as Trouet gracefully acknowledges here) in Kyle Harper’s excellent book The Fate of Rome. Wood in historical buildings or archaeological dig sites can also cast a light on the history of […]

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By: Book review – Climate Change and the Health of Nations: Famines, Fevers, and the Fate of Populations | The Inquisitive Biologist

Sun, 05 Apr 2020 15:19:23 +0000

[…] of the Reign of Chaos, but there are also excellent books on Roman civilization (see my review of The Fate of Rome: Climate, Disease, & the End of an Empire), the Little Ice Age (see The Little Ice Age: How Climate Made History, 1300-1850 and my review of […]

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By: Book review – The Mosquito: A Human History of Our Deadliest Predator | The Inquisitive Biologist

Mon, 20 Jan 2020 15:40:16 +0000

[…] military campaigns of Alexander the Great, Ancient Rome (with a nod to Harper’s magnificent The Fate of Rome: Climate, Disease, & the End of an Empire), the Crusades, and the Mongol hordes of Genghis Khan and subsequent barbaric invasions. More […]

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By: Book review – How History Gets Things Wrong: The Neuroscience of Our Addiction to Stories | The Inquisitive Biologist

Wed, 27 Nov 2019 14:25:46 +0000

[…] data from other disciplines that we get a clearer picture. I expect he will welcome books such as The Fate of Rome: Climate, Disease, & the End of an Empire and especially The Science of Roman History: Biology, Climate, and the Future of the Past, which […]

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By: Book review – The Science of Roman History: Biology, Climate, and the Future of the Past | The Inquisitive Biologist

Thu, 17 Oct 2019 15:15:15 +0000

[…] of past climates. I say appropriately as it was while reviewing Harper’s wonderful book The Fate of Rome: Climate, Disease, & the End of an Empire that I first learned that this book was being written. The authors here give a crash course on the […]

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