عنوان

Escape from Rome :

شابک

0691172188

شابک

9780691172187

شابک اشتباه

9780691198835

عنوان اصلي

Escape from Rome :

نام عام مواد

[Book]

ساير اطلاعات عنواني

the failure of empire and the road to prosperity /

نام نخستين پديدآور

Walter Scheidel.

محل نشرو پخش و غیره

Princeton :

نام ناشر، پخش کننده و غيره

Princeton University Press,

تاریخ نشرو بخش و غیره

2019.

نام خاص و کميت اثر

xviii, 670 pages :

ساير جزييات

illustrations, maps ;

ابعاد

25 cm.

عنوان فروست

The Princeton economic history of the Western world

متن يادداشت

Includes bibliographical references (pages 603-645) and index.

متن يادداشت

"In this book, Walter Scheidel provides a unique take on the perennial debates about the rise of the west. His main argument is straightforward and provocative: the fact that nothing like the Roman Empire ever again emerged in Europe was a crucial precondition for modern economic growth, the Industrial Revolution and worldwide conquest much later on. Contra Ken Pomeranz's classic thesis about the "Great Divergence" of the 18th/19th centuries when northwestern Europe pulled away from China and the rest of world in terms of economic performance and overall power, Scheidel argues there was a much more significant "first great divergence" in late antiquity which set the stage. Scheidel argues that it wasn't until the West "escaped" from the dominance of the Roman empire did it flourish economically (unlike China, comparison which will be explored in this book, which despite transformations and setbacks remained a "universal empire" for much of it's 2,200 year history). Scheidel approaches this "first great divergence" via a new take on some central question concerning the life and fate of the Roman Empire: How did the Roman Empire come into existence - did its rise depend on unique conditions that were never repeated later on? Was its fall inevitable? Why was nothing like the Roman Empire ever rebuilt? And did this matter for (much) later developments? He concludes by arguing that the fall and lasting disappearance of the Roman Empire was an indispensable precondition for later European exceptionalism and therefore for the creation of the modern world we now live in. From this perspective, the absence of the Roman Empire had a much greater impact than its previous existence and its subsequent influence on European culture, which is of course well documented in many domains and often accorded great significance. Scheidel does concede that a monopolistic empire like Rome's which first created a degree of shared culture and institutions but subsequently went away for good was perhaps more favorable to later European development than a scenario in which no such empire had ever existed in the first place. But, in answer to the question, ""What have the Romans ever done for us?" Scheidel replies: "fall and go away.""--

عنوان اصلي به زبان ديگر

Failure of empire and the road to prosperity

موضوع مستند نشده

Economic history.

موضوع مستند نشده

Europe, Economic conditions, To 1492.

موضوع مستند نشده

Europe, History, 476-1492.

موضوع مستند نشده

Rome, Economic conditions, 30 B.C.-476 A.D.

موضوع مستند نشده

Rome, History, Empire, 30 B.C.-476 A.D.

موضوع مستند نشده

Europe.

موضوع مستند نشده

Rome (Empire)

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مستند نام اشخاص تاييد نشده

Scheidel, Walter,1966-

تاريخ عمليات

20200822122945.0

قواعد فهرست نويسي ( بخش توصيفي )

rda

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نوع ماده

[Book]

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