{"id":25753,"date":"2023-06-14T07:58:28","date_gmt":"2023-06-14T05:58:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.historyextra.com\/?p=233503"},"modified":"2023-06-14T08:12:48","modified_gmt":"2023-06-14T06:12:48","slug":"what-can-we-learn-from-the-fall-of-rome","status":"publish","type":"rss_feed","link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbchistory\/rss_feed\/what-can-we-learn-from-the-fall-of-rome\/","title":{"rendered":"What can we learn from the fall of Rome?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"rssexcerpt\"> John Rapley and Peter Heather explore the parallels \u2013 and differences \u2013 between the fall of Rome and the decline of the modern west <\/p><p class=\"rssauthor\">By Ellie Cawthorne\n                \t\t<\/p><p class=\"rssbyline\">Published: Wednesday, 14 June 2023 at 12:00 am<\/p><hr class=\"no-tts wp-block-separator\"\/><?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"UTF-8\" standalone=\"yes\"?>\n<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><body> <p>What can the fall of Rome teach us about the decline of the west today? That\u2019s the question at the centre of political economist John Rapley and historian Peter Heather\u2019s new book Why Empires Fall. Peter and John join Ellie Cawthorne to discuss comparisons \u2013 and differences \u2013 between the two cases, and explore whether lessons from the ancient past could be applied to the future of the west.<\/p>\n<!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('audio');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<audio class=\"&quot;wp-audio-shortcode&quot;\" id=\"&quot;audio-233503-1&quot;\" preload=\"&quot;none&quot;\" style=\"&quot;width:\" controls=\"&quot;controls&quot;\"><source type=\"&quot;audio\/mpeg&quot;\" src=\"&quot;https:\/\/media.immediate.co.uk\/volatile\/sites\/7\/2023\/06\/whatcanwelearnfromthefallofrome-e3e68c1.mp3?_=1&quot;\"\/><a href=\"&quot;https:\/\/media.immediate.co.uk\/volatile\/sites\/7\/2023\/06\/whatcanwelearnfromthefallofrome-e3e68c1.mp3&quot;\">https:\/\/media.immediate.co.uk\/volatile\/sites\/7\/2023\/06\/whatcanwelearnfromthefallofrome-e3e68c1.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<p><strong>Peter Heather and John Rapley are the authors of <em>Why Empires Fall: Rome, America and the Future of the West\u00a0<\/em>(Penguin, 2023)<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul><li><strong><a href=\"&quot;https:\/\/uk.bookshop.org\/p\/books\/why-empires-fall-rome-america-and-the-future-of-the-west-john-rapley\/6474987?ean=9780241407493&amp;gclid=EAIaIQobChMIkeK1uMq9_wIVUNHtCh1HfwT9EAAYASAAEgJp_PD_BwE&quot;\">Buy now on Bookshop.org<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/Why-Empires-Fall-America-Decline\/dp\/0241407494?tag=bbchistory045-21&amp;ascsubtag=historyextra-0&quot;\" rel=\"&quot;sponsored&quot; noopener noreferrer\" target=\"&quot;_blank&quot;\">Buy now on Amazon<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"&quot;https:\/\/go.skimresources.com?id=71026X1535947&amp;xcust=historyextra-social-histboty&amp;xs=1&amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.waterstones.com%2Fbook%2Fwhy-empires-fall%2Fjohn-rapley%2Fpeter-heather%2F9780241407493&quot;\">Buy now on Waterstones<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Help us develop the HistoryExtra podcast offering by taking part in our latest research:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul><li><strong><a href=\"&quot;https:\/\/immediateinsiders.com\/uc\/admin\/b7a7\/?a=1&amp;b=&amp;c=3&quot;\">Get started now<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul> <\/body><\/html>\n<hr class=\"no-tts wp-block-separator\"\/>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> John Rapley and Peter Heather explore the parallels \u2013 and differences \u2013 between the fall of Rome and the decline of the modern west <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":25754,"template":"","categories":[1],"acf":{"readingTimeMinutes":"< 1"},"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2023\/06\/what-can-we-learn-from-the-fall-of-rome.jpg",620,413,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2023\/06\/what-can-we-learn-from-the-fall-of-rome-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2023\/06\/what-can-we-learn-from-the-fall-of-rome-300x200.jpg",300,200,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2023\/06\/what-can-we-learn-from-the-fall-of-rome.jpg",620,413,false],"large":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2023\/06\/what-can-we-learn-from-the-fall-of-rome.jpg",620,413,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2023\/06\/what-can-we-learn-from-the-fall-of-rome.jpg",620,413,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2023\/06\/what-can-we-learn-from-the-fall-of-rome.jpg",620,413,false]},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"importmanagerhub@sprylab.com","author_link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbchistory\/author\/importmanagerhubsprylab-com\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"John Rapley and Peter Heather explore the parallels \u2013 and differences \u2013 between the fall of Rome and the decline of the modern west","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbchistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rss_feed\/25753"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbchistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rss_feed"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbchistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/rss_feed"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbchistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbchistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25754"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbchistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbchistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}