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Resilience in Papal Rome, 1656-1870 A City’s Response to Crisis


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English | PDF EPUB (True) | 2023 | 331 Pages | ISBN : 3031412591 | 5.6 MB
This book analyses the evolution of the city of Rome, in particular, papal Rome, from the plague of 1656 until 1870 when it became the capital of the Kingdom of Italy. The authors explore papal Rome as a resilient city that had to cope with numerous crises during this period. By focusing on a selection of different crises in Rome, the book combines cultural, political, and economic history to examine key turning points in the city’s history. The book is split into chapters exploring themes such as diplomacy and international relations, disease, environmental disasters, famine, public debt, and unravels the political, economic, and social consequences of these transformative events. All the chapters are based on untapped original sources, chiefly from the State Archive in Rome, the Vatican Archives, the Rome Municipal Archives, the École Française Library, the National Library, and the Capitoline Library.

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Rome and Persia The Seven Hundred Year Rivalry [Audiobook]


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English | ASIN: B0BWGHMJR5 | 2023 | 20 hours and 25 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 587 MB
Author: Adrian Goldsworthy
Narrator: Mark Elstob

The epic rivalry between the ancient world’s two great superpowers. The Roman empire was like no other. Stretching from the north of Britain to the Sahara, and from the Atlantic coast to the Euphrates, it imposed peace and prosperity on an unprecedented scale. Its only true rival lay in the east, where the Parthian and then Persian empires ruled over great cities and the trade routes to mysterious lands beyond. This was the region Alexander the Great had swept through, creating a dream of glory and conquest that tantalized Greeks and Romans alike. Tracing seven centuries of conflict between Rome and Persia, historian Adrian Goldsworthy shows how these two great powers evolved together. Despite their endless clashes, trade between the empires enriched them both, and a mutual respect prevented both Rome and Persia from permanently destroying the other. Epic in scope, Rome and Persia completely reshapes our understanding of one of the greatest rivalries of world history.

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New Rome The Empire in the East [Audiobook]


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English | ASIN: B0CGB2C6MC | 2023 | 18 hours and 31 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 529 MB
Author: Paul Stephenson
Narrator: Peter Noble

As modern empires rise and fall, ancient Rome becomes ever more significant. We yearn for Rome’s power but fear Rome’s ruin-will we turn out like the Romans, we wonder, or can we escape their fate? That question has obsessed centuries of historians and leaders, who have explored diverse political, religious, and economic forces to explain Roman decline. In New Rome, Paul Stephenson looks beyond traditional texts and well-known artifacts to offer a novel, scientifically minded interpretation of antiquity’s end. It turns out that the descent of Rome is inscribed not only in parchments but also in ice cores and DNA.

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Why Empires Fall Rome, America and the Future of the West by John Rapley & Peter Heather


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May 25, 2023 | English | ASIN: B0BN6NL49D | 6 hr 55 mins | M4B & MP3@126 kbps
Authors: John Rapley & Peter Heather
Narrator: Sid Sagar
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.

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