Articoli correlati a 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 generally faltering. Here the similarities in different cases of economic decline are identified, bearing in mind that individual histories are characterized by important elements of originality.
In his introduction, Professor Cipolla points out that improvements in standards of living brought about by a rising economy lead to more and more people demanding to share the benefits. Incomes increase and extravagances develop, as new needs begin to replace those which have been satisfied. Prosperity spreads to neighbouring countries, which may become a threat and force the empire into greater military expenditure. For these and other reasons, public consumption in mature empires has a tendency to rise sharply and outstrip productivity and, in general, empires seem to resist change.
The ten articles in this collection, first published in 1970, examine separate cases of economic decline, from Rome and Byzantium to the more recent histories of the Dutch and Chinese empires, and demonstrate both the resemblances and the peculiarly individual characteristics of each case.
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acknowledgements vii
editor’s introduction 1
{ensp}1 aurelio bernardi
The Economic Problems of the Roman Empire at the Time of its Decline 16
{ensp}2 m. i. finley
Manpower and the Fall of Rome 84
{ensp}3 charles diehl
The Economic Decay of Byzantium 92
{ensp}4 bernard lewis
The Arabs in Eclipse 102
{ensp}5 jaime vicens vives
The Decline of Spain in the Seventeenth Century 121
{ensp}6 J. H. ELLIOTT
The Decline of Spain 168
{ensp}7 carlo m. cipolla
The Economic Decline of Italy 196
{ensp}8 bernard lewis
Some Reflections on the Decline of the Ottoman Empire 215
{ensp}9 c. r. boxer
The Dutch Economic Decline 235
10 ping-ti-ho
Economic and Institutional Factors in the Decline of the Chinese Empire 264
appendix 278
bibliography 279
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- EditoreRoutledge
- Data di pubblicazione2050
- ISBN 10 0415612888
- ISBN 13 9780415612883
- RilegaturaCopertina flessibile
- Numero edizione1
- Numero di pagine288
- RedattoreCipolla Carlo M.
- Valutazione libreria
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