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The fate of Rome: climate, disease, and the end of an empire

The fate of Rome: climate, disease, and the end of an empire
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ISBN 0691166838 (hbk.)
9780691166834 (hbk.)
Author Harper, Kyle 1979-
Title The fate of Rome : climate, disease, and the end of an empire / Kyle Harper
Publisher Princeton ; Oxford : Princeton University Press, 2017
Physical desc. 417 pages ; illustrations, maps ; 25 cm.
Series Princeton history of the ancient world
Bibliography etc. Includes bibliographical references (pages 351-412) and index.
Contents Prologue: Nature's triumph -- Environment and empire -- The happiest age -- Apollo's revenge -- The old age of the world -- Fortune's rapid wheel -- The wine-press of wrath -- Judgment Day -- Epilogue: Humanity's triumph?
Subject Climatic changes -- Health aspects -- Rome
Human beings -- Effect of climate on -- Rome
Regression (Civilization) -- History -- To 1500
Rome -- History -- Empire, 30 B.C.-476 A.D.
Rome -- Civilization
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