The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Vol. 1 by Edward Gibbon

The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Vol. 1

Edward Gibbon

398 pages first pub 1788 (editions)

nonfiction history politics adventurous challenging informative slow-paced
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Gibbon offers an explanation for why the Roman Empire fell, a task made difficult by a lack of comprehensive written sources, though he was not the only historian to tackle the subject. Most of his ideas are directly taken from what few relevant r...

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