La pénurie de main-d'oeuvre et de la chute de l'Empire romain en Occident (Relié)
par Arthur E. R. Boak 1955 (The University of Michigan press)
Boak Arthur Edward Romilly, *1888 Halifax, N.S., Canada, † 1962, alte Geschichte, o. Univ.-Professor, Ann Arbor (Michigan), Philos.-hist
Comporte un envoi à l'historien Howard Meredith Ehrmann
Appartenait à l'historien américain Howard Meredith Ehrmann (Ann harbor University) (provient de sa bibliothèque)
his starting point in examining this theory should be in stating the seemingly simple cycle put forth by Moses Finley for Rome’s economic collapse:
The army could not be enlarged because the land could not stand further depletion of manpower; the situation on the land had deteriorated because taxes were too high; taxes were too high because the military demands were increasing; and for that the German pressures were mainly responsible (Finley, 1970, 90).
To begin to break down this cycle we must first look at problems the army was facing and discover the reasons why it needed to be enlarged. Firstly was the issue of such a large border to protect and maintain. Rome consisted of about 1,600,000 square miles (Finley, 1970, 85). Right at its heart was the Mediterranean Sea. Due to its enormity and the fact that the Sea aided in cutting up its lines of communication, a greater army was needed than would have been for a more compact state (Boak, 1955, 114-5). This becomes evident when one compared the size of the army to that of France under Louis XIV. Both Marcus Aurelius and Louis XIV had army sizes of approximately 300,000. However, France was only 211,000 square miles compared to Rome’s 1,600,000 (www.cia.gov; Finley, 1970, 85-6).
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