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Why Empires Fall: Rome, America and the Future of the West

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內容簡介 從羅馬帝國的衰亡對照當今西方的衰落，歷史帶給我們什麼啟示？ 在過去的三世紀裡，西方崛起並掌握全球主宰權，但突然間發生了逆轉，面對經濟停滯和內部政治分裂，西方正在走向衰落。 全球秩序不是第一次發生如此劇烈的變化，過去羅馬帝國也經歷了類似的興盛和瓦解，其中的相似之處絕不是歷史巧合，在歷史學家Peter Heather和政治經濟學家John Rapley的合力研究下，抽絲剝繭羅馬帝國的歷史，帶領讀者重新思考當代西方的危機及轉機。What can the fall of Rome teach us about the decline of the West today? A historian and a political economist, both experts in their field, investigateOver the last three centuries, the West rose to dominate the planet. Then, suddenly, around the turn of the millennium, history reversed. Faced with economic stagnation and internal political division, the West has found itself in rapid decline.This is not the first time the global order has witnessed such a dramatic rise and fall. The Roman Empire followed a similar arc from dizzying power to disintegration - a fact that is more than a strange historical coincidence. In Why Empires Fall, historian Peter Heather and political economist John Rapley use this Roman past to think anew about the contemporary West, its state of crisis, and what paths we could take out of it.In this exceptional, transformative intervention, Heather and Rapley explore the uncanny parallels - and productive differences - between the two cases, moving beyond the familiar tropes of invading barbarians and civilizational decay to learn new lessons from ancient history. From 399 to 1999, the life cycles of empires, they argue, sow the seeds of their inevitable destruction. The era of western global domination has reached its end - so what comes next?

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作者介紹 John RapleyJohn Rapley is a political economist at the University of Cambridge and a Senior Fellow at the Johannesburg Institute for Advanced Studies. His books include Understanding Development, which remains in widespread use as a textbook in development studies, Globalization and Inequality and most recently Twilight of the Money Gods: Economics as a Religion and How it all Went Wrong.Peter HeatherPeter Heather is Chair of Medieval History at King's College, London. His many books include The Fall of the Roman Empire, Empires and Barbarians: Migration, Development and the Birth of Europe, The Restoration of Rome, Rome Resurgent and, most recently, Christendom.

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最佳賣點 : Why did Rome fall - and what can it teach us about the decline of the West today? A historian and a political economist investigate