Manpower Shortage and the Fall of the Roman Empire in the West

by Arthur Edward Romilly Boak

Book Overview

In Manpower Shortage and the Fall of the Roman Empire in the West, Arthur E. R. Boak, applying to population trends in antiquity the methods worked out by modern demographers, shows that there was a real and general decline in both rural and town population of the Roman Empire in the West from the middle of the second century on; that the Late Empire was from its beginnings faced with a marked deficiency in human resources; and that this manpower...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 047275033X
• ISBN13: 9780472750337
• Release Date: January 1955
• Publisher: University of Michigan Press
• Length: 178 Pages
• Weight: 0.44 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.0" x 8.0"