Escape from Rome

by Walter Scheidel

2021 · Princeton University Press

The gripping story of how the end of the Roman Empire was the beginning of the modern world The fall of the Roman Empire has long been considered one of the greatest disasters in history. But in this groundbreaking book, Walter Scheidel argues that Rome's dramatic collapse was actually the best thing that ever happened, clearing the path for Europe's economic rise and the creation of the modern age. Ranging across the entire premodern world, Escape from Rome offers new answers to some of the biggest questions in history: Why did the Roman Empire appear? Why did nothing like it ever return to Europe? And, above all, why did Europeans come to dominate the world? In an absorbing narrative that begins with ancient Rome but stretches far beyond it, from Byzantium to China and from Genghis Khan to Napoleon, Scheidel shows how the demise of Rome and the enduring failure of empire-building on European soil launched an economic transformation that changed the continent and ultimately the world.

Dutch Paintings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art

by Walter A. Liedtke, Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)

2007 · Metropolitan Museum of Art

Presents a catalog that surveys the Dutch paintings found in the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Annotated Catalogue of and Guide to the Publications of the Geological Survey Canada, 1845-1917

by Walter Frederick Ferrier, Dorothy J. Ferrier, Geological Survey of Canada

1920

Lists publications of Geological Survey of Canada from its inception to August 1, 1917. Arranged into sections according to type of publication. Includes finding list arranged according to provinces and territories as well as author index.