This is the second of a three‐section review of Kyle Harper's The Fate of Rome in which we
examine in detail Harper's treatment of two allegedly widespread and mortal Roman …

Over the past decade, several publications, amongst which most prominently the
monograph published by Kyle Harper in 2017, have argued that climate change was a …

On the Edge of Empires explores the mixed culture of North Mesopotamia in the Roman
period. This volatile region at the eastern edge of the Roman world became during the …

The article takes up an essay published in PNAS 116 (2019), whose authors try to show that
the 'Justinianic Plague'did not have any demonstrable major effects and in particular cannot …

A key question in economic history is the degree to which preindustrial economies could
generate sustained increases in per capita productivity. Previous studies suggest that, in …

Quantitative datasets of international conflict skew temporally to modern times and
geographically and culturally to the West. Yet post–1815 conflicts featuring Western actors …

What if the stories of trees and people are more closely linked than we ever imagined?
Winner of the World Wildlife Fund's 2020 Jan Wolkers PrizeOne of Science News's" Favorite …

Recent advances in paleoclimatology and the growing digital availability of large historical
datasets on human activity have created new opportunities to investigate long‐term …

This novel, transdisciplinary work explains how perturbations (defined as strong
disturbances or deviations to a system) can affect the population dynamics of social animals …