Verfasst von:	Heather, Peter J. [VerfasserIn]
	Rapley, John [VerfasserIn]
Titel:	Why empires fall
Titelzusatz:	Rome, America and the future of the West
Verf.angabe:	Peter Heather and John Rapley
Verlagsort:	[London]
Verlag:	Allen Lane, an imprint of Penguin Books
Jahr:	2023
Umfang:	v, 188 Seiten
Illustrationen:	Karten, Diagramme
ISBN:	978-0-241-40749-3
Abstract:	Over the last three centuries, the West rose to dominate the planet. Then, suddenly, around the turn of the millennium, history reversed. Faced with economic stagnation and internal political division, the West has found itself in rapid decline. This is not the first time the global order has witnessed such a dramatic rise and fall. The Roman Empire followed a similar arc from dizzying power to disintegration - a fact that is more than a strange historical coincidence. In Why Empires Fall, historian Peter Heather and political economist John Rapley use this Roman past to think anew about the contemporary West, its state of crisis, and what paths we could take out of it. In this exceptional, transformative intervention, Heather and Rapley explore the uncanny parallels - and productive differences - between the two cases, moving beyond the familiar tropes of invading barbarians and civilizational decay to learn new lessons from ancient history. From 399 to 1999, the life cycles of empires, they argue, sow the seeds of their inevitable destruction. The era of western global domination has reached its end - so what comes next?
URL:	Cover: https://www.dietmardreier.de/annot/4B56696D677C7C39363134303633377C7C434F50.jpg?sq=2
Schlagwörter:	(g)Römisches Reich    / (s)Niedergang    / (s)Kulturverfall
	(g)Westliche Welt    / (s)Zivilisation    / (s)Imperialismus    / (z)Geschichte 399-1999
	(s)Zusammenbruch    / (s)Staat    / (s)Imperialismus    / (s)DesintegrationSoziologie    / (s)Weltordnung    / (s)Politischer Wandel    / (s)Internationales politisches System    / (s)Geschichte    / (g)Erde    / (g)Westliche Welt    / (g)USA
Sprache:	eng
Sach-SW:	Ancient history: to c 500 CE
	Antike
	General & world history
	Geschichte allgemein und Weltgeschichte
	HISTORY / Ancient / Rome
	HISTORY / Civilization
	HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century
	HISTORY / Modern / 21st Century
	HISTORY / United States / 21st Century
	HISTORY / World
	History of ideas
	Ideengeschichte, Geistesgeschichte
	Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900
	POLITICAL SCIENCE / Economic Conditions
	Political economy
Zeit-SW:	20th century
	21. Jahrhundert (2000 bis 2100 n. Chr.)
	21st century
	Zweite Hälfte 20. Jahrhundert (1950 bis 1999 n. Chr.)
	ca. 1 bis ca. 500 n. Chr
K10plus-PPN:	1852230568