The Fate of Rome: Climate, Disease, and the End of an Empire (Paperback)
By Kyle Harper$24.95 USD
Kyle Harper's award-winning study of how climate change and pandemic disease drove the fall of the Roman Empire. Harper shows that the empire was devastated by a succession of climate shifts and plagues, from the Antonine Plague that killed millions in the second century to the Plague of Justinian that struck the last remnant of Rome in the sixth century.
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📄 432 pages⏱ ~4 hr read📅 2026
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Kyle Harper's award-winning study of how climate change and pandemic disease drove the fall of the Roman Empire. Harper shows that the empire was devastated by a succession of climate shifts and plagues, from the Antonine Plague that killed millions in the second century to the Plague of Justinian that struck the last remnant of Rome in the sixth century.
