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The economic decline of empires /

The question of why empires decline and fall has attracted the attention of historians for centuries, but remains fundamentally unsolved. This unique collection is concerned with the purely economic aspects of decline. It can be observed of empires in the process of decline that their economies are...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Cipolla, Carlo M., 1922-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London ; New York : Routledge, 2006.
Colección:Economic history.
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  • Cover; THE ECONOMIC DECLINE OF EMPIRES; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; Editor's Introduction; ONE The Economic Problems of the Roman Empire at the Time of its Decline; TWO Manpower and the Fall of Rome; THREE The Economic Decay of Byzantium; FOUR The Arabs in Eclipse; FIVE The Decline of Spain in the Seventeenth Century; SIX The Decline of Spain; SEVEN The Economic Decline of Italy; EIGHT Some Reflections on the Decline of the Ottoman Empire; NINE The Dutch Economic Decline; TEN Economic and Institutional Factors in the Decline of the Chinese Empire; Appendix; Bibliography.