The Eternal Decline and Fall of Rome: The History of a Dangerous Idea

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• ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0190076739
• ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 9780190076733
• Author: Edward J. Watts

For more than 2000 years, those wishing to rule Rome and leaders inspired by their example have claimed they, and only they, could restore their society’s past glory and make it great again. They left millions of victims in their wake. The decline of Rome has been a constant source of discussion for more than 2200 years. Everyone from American journalists in the twenty-first century AD to Roman politicians at the turn of the third century BC have used it as a tool to illustrate the negative consequences of changes in their world. Because Roman history is so long, it provides a buffet of ready-made stories of decline that can help develop the context around any snapshot. And Rome did, in fact, decline and, eventually, fall. An empire that once controlled all or part of more than 40 modern European, Asian, and African countries no longer exists. Roman prophets of decline were, ultimately, proven correct-a fact that makes their modern invocations all the more powerful. If it happened then, it could happen now.

Table contents:

Chapter 1 A Snapshot and a Story
Chapter 2 The Decline and Fall of the Roman Republic, c. 200 BC-14 AD
Chapter 3 Manufacturing the Golden Age of Trajan, 14 -117 AD
Chapter 4 Renewal without Decline: The Antonines and Severans, 117-235 AD
Chapter 5 Decline and False Renewal: The Third Century Crisis, 235-284 AD
Chapter 6 Decline, Renewal, and the Invention of Christian Progress, 284-337 AD
Chapter 7 Roman Renewal versus Christian Progress, 337-363 AD
Chapter 8 When Renewal Fails to Arrive, 363-384 AD
Chapter 9 The Loss of the Roman West and the Christian Future, 384-c. 470 AD
Chapter 10 Justinian, Roman Progress, and the Death of the Western Roman Empire, c. 470-565 AD
Chapter 11 Rome, the Arabs, and Iconoclasm, 565-c. 750 AD
Chapter 12 Old Rome, New Rome, and Future Rome, c. 750-814 AD
Chapter 13 The Retrenchment of One Roman Empire, the Resurgence of Another, 814-1085 AD
Chapter 14 The Captures of Constantinople, 1085-1282 AD
Chapter 15 The Fall of Roman Constantinople and the End of Roman Renewal, 1282-1461 AD
Chapter 16 Roman Renewal After the Fall, c.1450-c. 1560 AD
Chapter 17 The Dangerous Idea

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