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Fall of civilizations : stories of greatness and decline /

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York, NY : Hanover Square Press, 2024Description: 576 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 9781335013415
  • 1335013415
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 930 23/eng/20240410
LOC classification:
  • CB311 .C77 2024
Summary: "Based on the podcast with over one hundred million downloads, Fall of Civilizations ... explores how a range of ancient societies rose to power and sophistication, and how they tipped over into collapse. Across the centuries, we journey from the great empires of Mesopotamia to those of Khmer and Vijayanagara in Asia and Songhai in West Africa; from Byzantium to the Maya, Inca, and Aztecs of Central America; from Roman Britain to Rapa Nui. With ... research, ... insight, and ... empathic storytelling, historian and novelist Paul Cooper evokes the majesty and jeopardy of these ancient civilizations, and asks what it might have felt like for a person alive at the time to witness the end of their world"--
List(s) this item appears in: New Adult Non-fiction
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NF NF Chamberlin Free Public Library Nonfiction 930 COO (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 34480000601397

"Based on the podcast with over one hundred million downloads, Fall of Civilizations ... explores how a range of ancient societies rose to power and sophistication, and how they tipped over into collapse. Across the centuries, we journey from the great empires of Mesopotamia to those of Khmer and Vijayanagara in Asia and Songhai in West Africa; from Byzantium to the Maya, Inca, and Aztecs of Central America; from Roman Britain to Rapa Nui. With ... research, ... insight, and ... empathic storytelling, historian and novelist Paul Cooper evokes the majesty and jeopardy of these ancient civilizations, and asks what it might have felt like for a person alive at the time to witness the end of their world"--

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