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090 $a臺南市立圖書館
100 1 $aScheidel, Walter,$d1966-
245 10$aEscape from Rome :$bthe failure of empire and the road to prosperity /$cWalter Scheidel.
246 30$aFailure of empire and the road to prosperity
260 $aPrinceton, NJ :$bPrinceton University Press,$cc2019.
300 $axviii, 670 p. :$bill., map., [charts ;$c25 cm.
490 1 $aThe Princeton economic history of the Western world
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 $aList of figures and tables -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: The Great Escape -- Part I. The European Anomaly: 1. Patterns of empire -- Part II. Why Rome?: 2. Core -- 3. Periphery -- 4. Counterfactuals -- Part III. Why Only Rome?: 5. From Justinian to Frederick -- 6. From Genghis Khan to Napoleon -- Part IV. The First Great Divergence: 7. From convergence to divergence -- 8. Nature -- 9. Culture -- Part V. From the First to the Second Great Divergence: 10. Institutions -- 11. New Worlds -- 12. Understanding -- Epilogue: What have the Romans ever done for us? -- Glossary -- Technical note to chapter 1.
520 $aThe fall of the Roman Empire has long been considered one of the greatest disasters in history. But in this groundbreaking book, Walter Scheidel argues that Rome's dramatic collapse was actually the best thing that ever happened, clearing the path for Europe's economic rise and the creation of the modern age. Ranging across the entire premodern world, Escape from Rome offers new answers to some of the biggest questions in history: Why did the Roman Empire appear? Why did nothing like it ever return to Europe? And, above all, why did Europeans come to dominate the world? In an absorbing narrative that begins with ancient Rome but stretches far beyond it, from Byzantium to China and from Genghis Khan to Napoleon, Scheidel shows how the demise of Rome and the enduring failure of empire-building on European soil ensured competitive fragmentation between and within states. This rich diversity encouraged political, economic, scientific, and technological breakthroughs that allowed Europe to surge ahead while other parts of the world lagged behind, burdened as they were by traditional empires and predatory regimes that lived by conquest. It wasn't until Europe "escaped" from Rome that it launched an economic transformation that changed the continent and ultimately the world. What has the Roman Empire ever done for us? Fall and go away.
650 0$aEconomic history.
651 0$aEurope$xEconomic conditions$yTo 1492.
651 0$aEurope$xHistory$y476-1492.
651 0$aRome$xHistory$yEmpire, 30 B.C.-476 A.D.
651 0$aRome$xEconomic conditions$y30 B.C.-476 A.D.
653 $a人文藝術
653 $a知識性
830 0$aPrinceton economic history of the Western world.