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Fall of Civilizations by Paul Cooper

Fall of Civilizations

Stories of Greatness and Decline

Paul Cooper, Paul M.M. Cooper

Hanover Square Press · Print & ebook · July 23, 2024

"A treasure trove of myths and terror… Atmospheric as hell… Immersive."-The Times Based on the podcast with over one hundred million downloads, Fall of Civilizations brilliantly explores how a range of ancient societies rose to power and sophistication, and how they tipped over into collapse.

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A broad historical survey that turns cultural rise and collapse into a readable pattern.
Genres
Civilizations, World History, Ancient History
Published
Hanover Square Press, July 23, 2024

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"A treasure trove of myths and terror… Atmospheric as hell… Immersive."-The Times Based on the podcast with over one hundred million downloads, Fall of Civilizations brilliantly explores how a range of ancient societies rose to power and sophistication, and how they tipped over into collapse.

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Across the centuries, we journey from the great empires of Mesopotamia to those of Khmer and Vijayanagara in Asia and Songhai in West Africa; from Byzantium to the Maya, Inca and Aztecs of Central America; from Roman Britain to Rapa Nui. With meticulous research, breathtaking insight and dazzling, empathic storytelling, historian and novelist Paul Cooper evokes the majesty and jeopardy of these ancient civilizations, and asks what it might have felt like for a person alive at the time to witness the end of their world.

Civilizations, in Frame

A broad historical survey that turns cultural rise and collapse into a readable pattern.

Come here for

  • civilization-scale sweep
  • history with a decline-and-fall lens

Expect

  • wide temporal range
  • insight-forward, dip-in friendly chapters

Where it sits

Civilizations63%
Ancient History49%
World History35%

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Publisher categories

  • History
  • West African History
  • Ancient History
  • British History
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  • Middle Eastern History
  • Studying History
  • World History
  • Civilizations
Authors
Paul Cooper, Paul M.M. Cooper
Publisher
Hanover Square Press
Published
July 23, 2024
Format
Print & ebook
Reading lane
History