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Fallen Glory

The Lives and Deaths of History's Greatest Buildings

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Fallen Glory

Auteur(s): James Crawford
Narrateur(s): John Lee
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 AN INVITING, FASCINATING COMPENDIUM OF TWENTY-ONE OF HISTORY’S MOST FAMOUS LOST PLACES, FROM THE TOWER OF BABEL TO THE TWIN TOWERS

Buildings are more like us than we realize. They can be born into wealth or poverty, enjoying every privilege or struggling to make ends meet. They have parents—gods, kings and emperors, governments, visionaries and madmen—as well as friends and enemies. They have duties and responsibilities. They can endure crises of faith and purpose. They can succeed or fail. They can live. And, sooner or later, they die.

In Fallen Glory, James Crawford uncovers the biographies of some of the world’s most fascinating lost and ruined buildings, from the dawn of civilization to the cyber era. The lives of these iconic structures are packed with drama and intrigue. Soap operas on the grandest scale, they feature war and religion, politics and art, love and betrayal, catastrophe and hope. Frequently their afterlives have been no less dramatic—their memories used and abused down the millennia for purposes both sacred and profane. They provide the stage for a startling array of characters, including Gilgamesh, the Cretan Minotaur, Agamemnon, Nefertiti, Genghis Khan, Henry VIII, Catherine the Great, Adolf Hitler, and even Bruce Springsteen.

The twenty-one structures Crawford focuses on include The Tower of Babel, The Temple of Jerusalem, The Library of Alexandria, The Bastille, Kowloon Walled City, the Berlin Wall, and the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center. Ranging from the deserts of Iraq, the banks of the Nile and the cloud forests of Peru, to the great cities of Jerusalem, Istanbul, Paris, Rome, London and New York, Fallen Glory is a unique guide to a world of vanished architecture. Amériques Ancienne Architecture Europe Monde Histoire ancienne Moyen-Orient Moyen Âge Afrique Redevances Iran Amérique Latine Guerre Impérialisme Grèce antique Mythologie Russie Croisade
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This book was so much more than I expected. I somehow thought I was going to get a surface accounting of buildings that no longer stand. With an interest in architecture, that’s what I was looking forward to, but it was so much more. What I got was an incredibly detailed archaeological description of many ancient sites, complete with anthropology about the culture over time. There are more recent buildings as well, such as New York’s twin towers - and a creative accounting of the demise of Geocities (that mostly worked), but the bulk of the book was era spanning in scope. All the quality of a fascinating dive into history with a professor, ala The Great Courses, woven together into a cohesive, well written book. My only complaint was the absence of an accompanying PDF with the site names in print and photos (these exist in the Kindle edition, which I recommend even previewing, hough I bought it too). Highly recommended.

Such a pleasant surprise!

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