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Chapter 8 - The later Roman Empire

from Part II - Determinants of Intensification and Abatement

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 May 2015

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Gilles Bransbourg
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Andrew Monson  and
Walter Scheidel
Andrew Monson
Affiliation:
New York University
Walter Scheidel
Affiliation:
Stanford University, California
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Fiscal Regimes and the Political Economy of Premodern States , pp. 258 - 281
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2015

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