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Fall of Civilizations: Stories of Greatness and Decline
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Wydawca: Duckworth Books
EAN: 9780715655009
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Landmark world history from the creator of the Top Ten podcast Fall of Civilizations
Based on the podcast with over 100 million downloads, Fall of Civilizations brilliantly 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 meticulous research, breathtaking insight and dazzling, 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.
PRAISE FOR FALL OF CIVILIZATIONS
'Paul Cooper's histories of fallen civilizations are brilliantly written: clear, compelling, and ultimately chilling as we are forced to accept the lost genius of ancient cultures and the inevitable ruination of our own. Full of fascinating detail and nuanced findings, you need to read this book' - Cal Flyn, journalist and author of Islands of Abandonment
'An instructive, engaging and compelling epic which reveals the fragility of human existence: magnificent triumphs and lamentable tragedies, the civilized and the barbarian. A timely tour de force of historical storytelling' - Ron Ramdin, author of The Making of the Black Working Class in Britain
'Cooper draws parallels between fears for our own future and the colossal wrecks of fallen empires so that we may marvel at them and, perhaps, learn from them' Tim Leach, author of The Hollow Throne
'A treasure trove of myths and terror… Atmospheric as hell… Immersive' - The Times
'Paul Cooper has a historian's cool for what we know and what we don't... but a novelist's eye for vivid details' - Seattle Times
'Excellent' - Guardian
Based on the podcast with over 100 million downloads, Fall of Civilizations brilliantly 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 meticulous research, breathtaking insight and dazzling, 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.
PRAISE FOR FALL OF CIVILIZATIONS
'Paul Cooper's histories of fallen civilizations are brilliantly written: clear, compelling, and ultimately chilling as we are forced to accept the lost genius of ancient cultures and the inevitable ruination of our own. Full of fascinating detail and nuanced findings, you need to read this book' - Cal Flyn, journalist and author of Islands of Abandonment
'An instructive, engaging and compelling epic which reveals the fragility of human existence: magnificent triumphs and lamentable tragedies, the civilized and the barbarian. A timely tour de force of historical storytelling' - Ron Ramdin, author of The Making of the Black Working Class in Britain
'Cooper draws parallels between fears for our own future and the colossal wrecks of fallen empires so that we may marvel at them and, perhaps, learn from them' Tim Leach, author of The Hollow Throne
'A treasure trove of myths and terror… Atmospheric as hell… Immersive' - The Times
'Paul Cooper has a historian's cool for what we know and what we don't... but a novelist's eye for vivid details' - Seattle Times
'Excellent' - Guardian
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Wydawca: Duckworth Books
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Tytuł:Fall of Civilizations: Stories of Greatness and Decline
EAN: 9780715655009
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