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Pox Romana
- The Plague That Shook the Roman World
- De: Colin Elliott
- Narrado por: Cassandra Campbell
- Duración: 10 h y 59 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 26
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 22
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 22
In the middle of the second century AD, Rome was at its prosperous and powerful apex. The emperor Marcus Aurelius reigned over a vast territory that stretched from Britain to Egypt. The Roman-made peace, or Pax Romana, seemed to be permanent. Then, apparently out of nowhere, a sudden sickness struck the legions and laid waste to cities, including Rome itself. This fast-spreading disease, known now as the Antonine plague, may have been history’s first pandemic. Soon after its arrival, the Empire began its downward trajectory toward decline and fall.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Unlistenable because of the narrator
- De HWAG en 05-24-24
- Pox Romana
- The Plague That Shook the Roman World
- De: Colin Elliott
- Narrado por: Cassandra Campbell
My advice? Read or listen to most of it. Mark as read when he begins preaching near the end.
Revisado: 10-20-24
This book gives a very well researched and informative history of the Roman Empire during the Antonine plague. I greatly enjoyed the early chapters. The problem is the late chapters and the summation. Why oh why does the author have to add anachronisms like command economy and a glaring Christian bias to the summation? It is glaringly obvious the author is a free market supporter. We also know the Christinas won. He seems to be saying at the end "If only they had deregulated, accepted Christ and freed the power of capitalism the plague would have passed quickly and easily. They would have invented germ theory and had steam engines and skipped into a new glorious age.” This is barely an exaggeration of statements in the last 2 chapters. My advice? Read or listen to first most of it. Mark as read when he begins preaching near the end.
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Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World
- De: Jack Weatherford
- Narrado por: Jonathan Davis, Jack Weatherford
- Duración: 14 h y 20 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 20,069
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 16,601
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 16,597
The Mongol army led by Genghis Khan subjugated more lands and people in 25 years than the Romans did in 400. In nearly every country the Mongols conquered, they brought an unprecedented rise in cultural communication, expanded trade, and a blossoming of civilization.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Golden Horde/Platinum Listen
- De Cynthia en 12-11-13
Wonderful, interesting and informitive
Revisado: 04-09-20
This is a wonderful book that provides very detailed information about a historical subject I knew little to nothing about. The author provides, new to my western upbringing, information about an important figure in history. If you are looking for a detailed life of this figure this is the book for you. Be warned there is little information about western Europe or the history of areas outside of the Mogul empire other than when the two areas interacted. If you are looking for more information about Europe I would not suggest this book. This is about Genghis Khan not the popes or kings of the west. The criticism I would make is the portion about the impact of the Mongols on current technology and politics could be overblown, but it is sold as being revisionist history.
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The Swerve
- How the World Became Modern
- De: Stephen Greenblatt
- Narrado por: Edoardo Ballerini
- Duración: 9 h y 41 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 3,492
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 3,022
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 3,013
Nearly six hundred years ago, a short, genial, cannily alert man in his late 30s took a very old manuscript off a library shelf, saw with excitement what he had discovered, and ordered that it be copied. That book was the last surviving manuscript of an ancient Roman philosophical epic by Lucretius—a beautiful poem containing the most dangerous ideas: that the universe functioned without the aid of gods, that religious fear was damaging to human life, and that matter was made up of very small particles.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Very compelling history, a less compelling thesis
- De A reader en 05-01-12
- The Swerve
- How the World Became Modern
- De: Stephen Greenblatt
- Narrado por: Edoardo Ballerini
Wonderful history
Revisado: 01-29-20
A beautiful book. Instilled a desire to learn Latin. Kidding aside a great history giving a clear and sympathetic outline of epicureanism. A book that if you are interested in the history of ideas similar to what James Burke ( Connections ) presents then this is your book.
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