The Economic Decline of Empires

by Carlo M. Cipolla, Pierre Vilar, J.H. Elliot

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415489504
• ISBN13: 9780415489508
• Release Date: April 2006
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 0.93 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"