one again? 3

For nearly 1,600 years the authors fascinated by the fall of the Western Roman Empire had masterminded multiple scenarios more or less brutal; was it a new story for this? Because there are no longer justified the many books published today, it seems, by the feeling of a probable change of civilization in Occident.Bryan Ward-Perkins is an empirical and practical American mind away from modes.Il considers , based on recent archaeological discoveries and more specifically the collection of simple everyday materials (pottery, tiles, amphorae, etc..qui used to study industrial structures of the time and nature of exchanges today we would call globalized between industrially and economically specialized countries) than what we used to call "late antiquity" is a period of profound change, traumatic rupture and not a simple transition between Antiquity and the Middle Ages: it was the immediate collapse of a brilliant civilization. Both economic plans; technology, urban planning, innovation, industrial, etc .., it took several centuries in Europe to achieve the same level of organization. It shows how the fall was violent and end up in his demonstrations some themes that might be relevant. Some politicians today do not they shout the opportunity to change civilization sorcerer's apprentices without foreseeing the dangers? This book certainly allow them to think about it with reason ....