Introduction: The Great Escape

Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS ix
3. FIGURES AND TABLES xi
4. TABLES xv
5. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS xvii
6. Introduction: The Great Escape 1
7. PART I. The European Anomaly 29
8. PART II. Why Rome? 49
9. PART III. Why Only Rome? 125
10. PART IV. The First Great Divergence 217
11. PART V. From the First to the Second Great Divergence 335
12. Epilogue. What Have the Romans Ever Done for Us? 503
13. GLOSSARY 529
14. TECHNICAL NOTE TO CHAPTER 1 533
15. NOTES 537
16. REFERENCES 603
17. INDEX 647