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Mar 12 2017

Istanbul by Thomas F. Madden

By Doug Merrill in Doug, Eastern Europe, History
March 12, 2017

Of all the places that I have visited, Istanbul almost certainly heads the list of those I would like to return to. Arriving in April of 1993, at the beginning of what I thought was six months of travel before going broke in Ireland, I was struck by how European the city was. This despite …

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Aug 19 2014

The Fall of the Roman Empire by Peter Heather

By Al Singh in Al, History
August 19, 2014

This is a highly revisionist book that challenges the accepted conclusions, chiefly those of Gibbon, on why the Roman Empire fell. It was not, the author argues, the result of unchecked barbarian invasions, or the assimilation of disloyal barbarians within the Empire, or over-taxation, or Christian unworldliness, or political corruption, or moral decadence. The author …