City of Echoes: A New History of Rome, Its Popes, and Its People by Jessica WärnbergRequirements: .ePUB reader, 80 MbOverview: From a bold new historian comes a vibrant history of Rome as seen through its most influential persona throughout the centuries: the pope.Rome is a city of echoes, where the voice of the people has […]
New Rome: The Empire in the East by Paul StephensonRequirements: .M4A/.M4B reader, 529 MBOverview: As modern empires rise and fall, ancient Rome becomes ever more significant. We yearn for Rome’s power but fear Rome’s ruin—will we turn out like the Romans, we wonder, or can we escape their fate? That question has obsessed centuries of […]
New Rome: The Roman Empire in the East, AD 395 – 700 (The Profile History of the Ancient World) by Paul StephensonRequirements: .ePUB reader, 44 MBOverview: Conventional histories of the last days of the Roman Empire will no longer suffice after you read this book.’ Averil Cameron, author of Byzantine Matters Long before Rome fell […]
Byzantium: The Empire of New Rome by Cyril MangoRequirements: .ePUB, .PDF reader, 84 MBOverview: Examining Byzantine life from the point of view of the average citizen, a noted historian deals with language, social and economic conditions, the disappearance and revival of cities, education, monasticism, and the Byzantine literary, artistic, and architectural legacy.Genre: Non-Fiction > History […]
Why America Is Not a New Rome by Vaclav SmilRequirements: .ePUB reader, 3 MBOverview: America’s post—Cold War strategic dominance and its pre-recession affluence inspired pundits to make celebratory comparisons to ancient Rome at its most powerful. Now, with America no longer perceived as invulnerable, engaged in protracted fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan, and suffering the […]