THE FATE OF ROME: Climate, Disease, and the End of an Empire
by Kyle Harper
Princeton University Press,
Princeton, New Jersey
Paperback: 440 pages
Price: AUD$44.99
Reviewed by Bill James
Our mental image of the “fall of the Roman Empire” is one of the most deeply embedded stereotypes in our culture.
Fat men reclining in togas and laurel wreaths, scantily clad slave girls, mountains of food, and overflowing wine goblets all come i…
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