This list is curated from 5 mentions and sorted by most mentioned, then by date of most recent mention. The more a book is mentioned, the more likely it's recommended and a favorite!
This list is curated from 5 mentions and sorted by most mentioned, then by date of most recent mention. The more a book is mentioned, the more likely it's recommended and a favorite!
This is The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Gibbon. When I was in college I really wanted to read it but this set was like 150 dollars or something and so I told my parents that i needed it for class.View all 2 sources
There's obviously Gibbon's famous book about the decline and fall of the Roman Empire and how they had advanced technology in terms of roads, aqueducts, plumbing and so forth and then they basically forgot about it.View source
The idea that European civilization is in some way suicidal or self-destructive goes back at least as far as the 18th century, when scholarship about the fall of the Roman Empire led to speculation about what causes civilizations to decline.View source
When people ask me "what should I read", I used to avoid responding. Now, here is something necessary in anyone's ed pic.twitter.com/mxmabxeiTGView source
