Gibbon was right: The decline and fall of the Roman economy

Impact of Empire

Volumn 7, Issue , 2007, Pages 183-199

  Jongman, Willem ^a  

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EID: 85003749684     PISSN: 15720500     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1163/ej.9789004160507.i-448.38     Document Type: Conference Paper

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