@article{332513, note = {Also published: London : Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2009, with title: The fall of the west : the slow death of the Roman superpower.}, author = {Goldsworthy, Adrian Keith.}, url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/332513}, title = {How Rome fell : death of a superpower /}, publisher = {Yale University Press,}, abstract = {The author discusses how the Roman Empire--an empire without a serious rival--rotted from within, its rulers and institutions putting short-term ambition and personal survival over the wider good of the state.}, recid = {332513}, pages = {x, 531 p., [16] p. of plates :}, address = {New Haven [Conn.] :}, year = {2009}, }