“at the University of Oklahoma, and the author of some really interesting books: The Fate of Rome, Plagues Upon the Earth, Slavery in the Late Roman World, and an upcoming one called The Last Animal.”
Books mentioned in Why Rome actually fell: plagues, slavery, & ice age — Kyle Harper
From Dwarkesh Podcast · 2025-04-24
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“Plagues Upon the Earth, Slavery in the Late Roman World, and an upcoming one called The Last Animal. The reason I wanted to have you on is because I don't think I've encountered that many other”
“There's a bunch of questions I have about this. If you read Gibbon, writing in the 1770s, I think he says that the happiest time in human history was this period you're talking about. That”
“James Scott has an interesting theory in Against the Grain. I don't know if it originates with him, but he argues that one of the reasons that the early agriculturalists were so successful... And”
“example I use in the book is the very famous diary of Samuel Pepys, who's this incredible figure and is very close to Newton and that social group and his name is on the first edition of the Principia.”
“is very close to Newton and that social group and his name is on the first edition of the Principia. These people are this close to each other. But the stuff that I evoke, I won't say—this”