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Gibbon's Britain and Imperial Rome

History Books Review

English - May 31, 2012 05:00 - 12 minutes - 11.9 MB - ★★★★★ - 55 ratings
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Gibbon must have understood the early empire well, but probably not the later one so much.  I think this gives us a clue as to why the empire fell.