Kyle Harper is a historian of the classical world and the Senior Vice President and Provost at his alma mater, the University of Oklahoma.
He graduated summa cum laude with a degree in Letters from OU and then received his Ph.D. in History from Harvard University in 2007.
发表于2024-12-18
The Fate of Rome 2024 pdf epub mobi 电子书
正值新冠肺炎全球肆虐之际,有幸读得此书,感慨万千。 由于中国及时有效的防空,新冠肺炎在国内基本得到控制,全国复工复产有序进行。与此相对,国外诸多国家却逐渐陷入新冠肺炎的恐慌之中,美国最甚。无疑此次新冠肺炎对美国及西欧国家的打击将会是惨痛的,已有专家预测肺炎过...
评分正常看书还是纸质的好,可是这书卖的也太贵了,写那么多有什么用,就是贵,也没什么好说的了。 12345678912345678912345678912345678912345678912345678936985214785223698852147852369985211478836699888
评分“过去认为影响罗马命运的主角是:皇帝、蛮族、将军、军士、奴隶。现在换个角度,认知到“非人因素”其实更有决定性:细菌、病毒、火山、太阳黑子周期。换言之,气候变迁与疾病瘟疫,才是决定剧本的匿名作者,将相英雄只是棋子。” 01 — 英文版是2017年出的,算比较新的书。 ...
评分 评分“过去认为影响罗马命运的主角是:皇帝、蛮族、将军、军士、奴隶。现在换个角度,认知到“非人因素”其实更有决定性:细菌、病毒、火山、太阳黑子周期。换言之,气候变迁与疾病瘟疫,才是决定剧本的匿名作者,将相英雄只是棋子。” 01 — 英文版是2017年出的,算比较新的书。 ...
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A sweeping new history of how climate change and disease helped bring down the Roman Empire
Here is the monumental retelling of one of the most consequential chapters of human history: the fall of the Roman Empire. The Fate of Rome is the first book to examine the catastrophic role that climate change and infectious diseases played in the collapse of Rome’s power—a story of nature’s triumph over human ambition.
Interweaving a grand historical narrative with cutting-edge climate science and genetic discoveries, Kyle Harper traces how the fate of Rome was decided not just by emperors, soldiers, and barbarians but also by volcanic eruptions, solar cycles, climate instability, and devastating viruses and bacteria. He takes readers from Rome’s pinnacle in the second century, when the empire seemed an invincible superpower, to its unraveling by the seventh century, when Rome was politically fragmented and materially depleted. Harper describes how the Romans were resilient in the face of enormous environmental stress, until the besieged empire could no longer withstand the combined challenges of a “little ice age” and recurrent outbreaks of bubonic plague.
A poignant reflection on humanity’s intimate relationship with the environment, The Fate of Rome provides a sweeping account of how one of history’s greatest civilizations encountered and endured, yet ultimately succumbed to the cumulative burden of nature’s violence. The example of Rome is a timely reminder that climate change and germ evolution have shaped the world we inhabit—in ways that are surprising and profound.
First published in 2017.
Kyle Harper is professor of classics and letters and senior vice president and provost at the University of Oklahoma. He is the author of Slavery in the Late Roman World, AD 275–425 and From Shame to Sin: The Christian Transformation of Sexual Morality in Late Antiquity. He lives in Norman, Oklahoma.
四星半。Climate Change and the Decline of Rome 非常有意思的题目,关注人应对环境变化这一维度,算是这一单薄的领域中少有的佳作了。Woolf对本书提出的一大遗憾是,人对环境的形塑与改造,以及由此引发的人与环境的矛盾,在本书中地位仍然不高。虽然Harper声称自己并不忽视人类力量,但他写出的东西好像比声称的要弱一些。相比来说,Harper做掉了相对好办的工作(不,其实已经很难做了),还有下一步等待推进。
评分難得的研究方向。不過書名的fate是否將涵蓋面拓展的過於廣泛了?
评分翻过,没有精力从头到尾读完。可以看到在地球气候演变的大趋势下人类对自然的塑造能力微不足道。古人在面对气候变化和瘟疫这两种在其知识体系和观测的时间尺度内无法解释的现象时更为脆弱和值得怜悯。想到百年前夺取无数生命的西班牙流感,人类在认识自然和认识自己的道路上还有很长的路要走。作者对St Cyprian笔下古代瘟疫的研究值得注意。
评分Informative and adaptable
评分翻过,没有精力从头到尾读完。可以看到在地球气候演变的大趋势下人类对自然的塑造能力微不足道。古人在面对气候变化和瘟疫这两种在其知识体系和观测的时间尺度内无法解释的现象时更为脆弱和值得怜悯。想到百年前夺取无数生命的西班牙流感,人类在认识自然和认识自己的道路上还有很长的路要走。作者对St Cyprian笔下古代瘟疫的研究值得注意。
The Fate of Rome 2024 pdf epub mobi 电子书