ISBN: 9780449300565 - Gibbon's the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (13 results)

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Paperback. Condition: Very Good. [Interesting provenance: From the private library of renowned historian, Philip D. Morgan.] Softcover. Good binding and cover. Shelf wear. Marginal toning. Small tear to tail of spine. Contemporary signature of Morgan on front end page. From the professional library of Dr. Philip D. Morgan, a professor of History at Johns Hopkins University. Morgan specializes in the African-American experience, the history of slavery, the early Caribbean, and the study of the early Atlantic world. Morgan is the author of more than 14 books on Colonial America and African American history. He has won both the Bancroft Prize and the Frederick Douglass Prize for his book Slave Counterpoint: Black Culture in the Eighteenth-Century Chesapeake and Lowcountry (1998).…

Paperback. Condition: Good. 311 pages. text tanned, cover worn 'I set out upon Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire [and] was immedi ately dominated by both the story and the style, ' recalled Winston Churchill. ' I devoured Gibbon. I rode triumphantly through it from end to end and enjoyed it all.I was not even estranged by his naughty footnotes.' In the two centuries since its completion, Gibbon's magnum opus -- which encompasses some 1,300 year s as it swings across Europe, North Africa, and Asia -- has refused to go the wa y of many 'classics' and grow musty on the shelves. 'Gibbon is a landmark and a signpost -- a landmark of human achievement: and a signpost because the social c onvulsions of the Roman Empire as described by him sometimes prefigure and indic ate convulsions which shake the whole world today, ' wrote E.M. Forster. Never f ar below the surface of the magnificent narrative lies the author's wit and swee ping irony, exemplified by Gibbon's famous definition of history as 'little more than the register of the crimes, follies and misfortunes of mankind.'.…

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