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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Mar 12 2017
Istanbul by Thomas F. Madden
- By Doug Merrill in Doug, Eastern Europe, History
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March 12, 2017
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Aug 19 2014
The Fall of the Roman Empire by Peter Heather
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 …
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