IniciGrupsConversesMésTendències
Cerca al lloc
Aquest lloc utilitza galetes per a oferir els nostres serveis, millorar el desenvolupament, per a anàlisis i (si no has iniciat la sessió) per a publicitat. Utilitzant LibraryThing acceptes que has llegit i entès els nostres Termes de servei i política de privacitat. L'ús que facis del lloc i dels seus serveis està subjecte a aquestes polítiques i termes.

Resultats de Google Books

Clica una miniatura per anar a Google Books.

How Rome Fell: Death of a Superpower de…
S'està carregant…

How Rome Fell: Death of a Superpower (2009 original; edició 2009)

de Adrian Goldsworthy

MembresRessenyesPopularitatValoració mitjanaMencions
8312026,067 (3.85)30
In AD 200, the Roman Empire seemed unassailable. Its vast territory accounted for most of the known world.By the end of the fifth century, Roman rule had vanished in western Europe and much of northern Africa, and only a shrunken Eastern Empire remained.What accounts for this improbable decline? Here, Adrian Goldsworthy applies the scholarship, perspective, and narrative skill that defined his monumental Caesar to address perhaps the greatest of all historical question show Rome fell.It was a period of remarkable personalities, from the philosopher-emperor Marcus Aurelius to emperors like Diocletian, who portrayed themselves as tough, even brutal, soldiers.It was a time of revolutionary ideas, especially in religion, as Christianity went from persecuted sect to the religion of state and emperors. Goldsworthy pays particular attention to the willingness of Roman soldiers to fight and kill each other. Ultimately, this is the story of how an empire without a serious rival rotted from within, its rulers and institutions putting short-term ambition and personal survival over the wider good of the state.How Rome Fell is a brilliant successor to Goldsworthy's "monumental" (The Atlantic) Caesar.… (més)
Membre:bookworm2109
Títol:How Rome Fell: Death of a Superpower
Autors:Adrian Goldsworthy
Informació:Yale University Press (2009), Hardcover, 560 pages
Col·leccions:La teva biblioteca
Valoració:
Etiquetes:Roman History

Informació de l'obra

How Rome Fell: Death of a Superpower de Adrian Goldsworthy (2009)

  1. 10
    The Fall of the Roman Empire: A New History of Rome and the Barbarians de Peter Heather (HarmlessTed)
    HarmlessTed: Where Heather emphasizes the pressure barbarians exercised on the borders of the Roman empire, Goldsworthy`s focus is on internal Roman conflicts, as long-time consequences of the regime-change from republic to principate.
S'està carregant…

Apunta't a LibraryThing per saber si aquest llibre et pot agradar.

No hi ha cap discussió a Converses sobre aquesta obra.

» Mira també 30 mencions

Es mostren 1-5 de 19 (següent | mostra-les totes)
This is a well-written treatise on the last 200 years of the Roman Empire in the west. It is by no means equal to the scope and literary quality of Edward Gibbons iconic multi volume work “Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire”. This statement does not take anything away from Adrian Goldsworthy’s How Rome Fell -Death of a Superpower.

In order to better understand the merits of this new treatise on the fall of Roman Empire, it only makes sense to contrast it with Gibbon’s piece de resistance, which arguably has remained eminent even after 250 years.

Where Gibbon’s detached, neutral style anticipated in many ways modern scientific writing, his interspersed moralism was reminiscent of the great ancient historians.
Conforming to contemporary practice, Goldsworthy’s work is devoid of aphorisms and moral lessons.

However, what matters most is that How Rome Fell -Death of a Superpower can be seen as an important addition to Gibbons work.
Goldsworthy’s work injects many up-to-date facts and ideas from newly gathered archeological data but never claims the data to be complete. Therefore, even though Goldsworthy has a clearly defined thesis, he is always realistic enough to point at optional interpretations of the limited data available. In the end, this reader realizes that we know much less about certain eras of history than we have been led to believe. Adrian Goldsworthy’s work, unlike others, does not veil this very important fact, and it manages to make careful and very educated extrapolations utilizing a blend of common sense, awareness of human nature and the accumulated archeological discoveries since Gibbons era. ( )
  nitrolpost | Mar 19, 2024 |
Argues that civil wars and the growing frequency of usurpers did in the Empire in the West. Also made the comparison to modern day and bureaucracies that forget their larger purpose. ( )
  jcvogan1 | Aug 13, 2023 |
En el año 476 d.C. Rómulo Augusto, el último emperador que gobernó en Roma, fue depuesto, sin oposición, por el bárbaro Odoacro. Este hito marcó el final definitivo, e incluso silencioso, de cinco siglos de dominación imperial. Fue la muerte anunciada por una larga decadencia que había empezado con Marco Aurelio, tres siglos antes, cuando Roma era aún la mayor superpotencia del mundo.
  Natt90 | Dec 13, 2022 |
Ultimately unsatisfying narrative of the decline of the western Roman Empire. The author does a better job than most in admitting the various uncertainties and gaps in the sources, but Goldsworthy seems to decide in the end we can’t really say how the Empire fell because there is too little we actually know. This is unsatisfactory, no matter how correct, for a book entitled How Rome Fell. He actually forms a pretty good argument for the empire disintegrating due to internal strife but fails to nail it.

There are a couple of useless chapters that try to draw a parallel (or non-parallel) to America. Interestingly he states that since the Civil War, America was never subject to an armed insurrection. I guess this was true at the time.

Complaints that the middle section reads like a list of names is unfair since the Empire after Marcus Aurelius was more or less a revolving door of emperors and usurpers for 300 years. Read Gibbon, still the best history of the Roman Empire, and you’ll get the same impression at times. ( )
  Gumbywan | Jun 24, 2022 |
emphasis on internal conflict and subsequent weakness as reason for fall of the western empire
  ritaer | Aug 19, 2021 |
Es mostren 1-5 de 19 (següent | mostra-les totes)
This is not a book that I could use in the classroom--too thick, too well-written, and perhaps most dangerously, too clear. Portraying history in such simplistic terms, however, fails to explain that governing the Late Roman Empire was a complex business. But since this is not what Goldsworthy set out to do, such criticism is unfair. By design, this is the sort of book that politicians, school teachers, and my colleagues in the Department of Physics will read, sucked in by the blurb on the dust jacket.
 
Has d'iniciar sessió per poder modificar les dades del coneixement compartit.
Si et cal més ajuda, mira la pàgina d'ajuda del coneixement compartit.
Títol normalitzat
Informació del coneixement compartit en anglès. Modifica-la per localitzar-la a la teva llengua.
Títol original
Títols alternatius
Data original de publicació
Gent/Personatges
Llocs importants
Esdeveniments importants
Informació del coneixement compartit en anglès. Modifica-la per localitzar-la a la teva llengua.
Pel·lícules relacionades
Epígraf
Dedicatòria
Primeres paraules
Citacions
Darreres paraules
Nota de desambiguació
Editor de l'editorial
Creadors de notes promocionals a la coberta
Informació del coneixement compartit en anglès. Modifica-la per localitzar-la a la teva llengua.
Llengua original
CDD/SMD canònics
LCC canònic

Referències a aquesta obra en fonts externes.

Wikipedia en anglès (6)

In AD 200, the Roman Empire seemed unassailable. Its vast territory accounted for most of the known world.By the end of the fifth century, Roman rule had vanished in western Europe and much of northern Africa, and only a shrunken Eastern Empire remained.What accounts for this improbable decline? Here, Adrian Goldsworthy applies the scholarship, perspective, and narrative skill that defined his monumental Caesar to address perhaps the greatest of all historical question show Rome fell.It was a period of remarkable personalities, from the philosopher-emperor Marcus Aurelius to emperors like Diocletian, who portrayed themselves as tough, even brutal, soldiers.It was a time of revolutionary ideas, especially in religion, as Christianity went from persecuted sect to the religion of state and emperors. Goldsworthy pays particular attention to the willingness of Roman soldiers to fight and kill each other. Ultimately, this is the story of how an empire without a serious rival rotted from within, its rulers and institutions putting short-term ambition and personal survival over the wider good of the state.How Rome Fell is a brilliant successor to Goldsworthy's "monumental" (The Atlantic) Caesar.

No s'han trobat descripcions de biblioteca.

Descripció del llibre
Sumari haiku

Debats actuals

Cap

Cobertes populars

Dreceres

Valoració

Mitjana: (3.85)
0.5
1 1
1.5
2 5
2.5 1
3 19
3.5 6
4 47
4.5 6
5 18

Ets tu?

Fes-te Autor del LibraryThing.

Yale University Press

Una edició d'aquest llibre ha estat publicada per Yale University Press.

» Pàgina d'informació de l'editor

Tantor Media

Una edició d'aquest llibre ha estat publicada per Tantor Media.

» Pàgina d'informació de l'editor

 

Quant a | Contacte | LibraryThing.com | Privadesa/Condicions | Ajuda/PMF | Blog | Botiga | APIs | TinyCat | Biblioteques llegades | Crítics Matiners | Coneixement comú | 203,185,794 llibres! | Barra superior: Sempre visible