内容提要 My aim iwriting thiook has not beeto add another History of the RomaEmpire to those which already exist. My purpose is more modest and much more limited. We possess very good surveys of the foreigpolicy of the RomaEmperors, of the constitutional history of the RomaEmpire, of the system of administration, both civil and military, and of the organizatioof the army. Valuable work haeedone idescribing the municipal life of Italy and of some of the provinces, and attempts have beemade to present complete pictures of the historical development of some of the provincial areas under Romarule. We have not, however, a single book or monograph treating of the social and economic life of the RomaEmpire as a whole and tracing the ines of its evolution. There are valuable contributions dealing with one or another partial problem or with some special period. Most of these contributions, however (for example, the excellent work of L. Friedlander), have beewrittefrom the antiquarian, not from the historical, point of view, and no one has endeavoured to connect the social and economic evolutioof the Empire with its constitutional and administrative development or with the home and foreigpolicy of the Emperors. The present volume is the first attempt of the kind. I am very well aware that it is far from satisfactory. The task haeearduous and complicated. The material is scanty and scattered. No statistics are available. The interpretatioof the few data which we have is opeto dispute, and most of the conclusions drawby modem scholars are hypothetical and oftearbitrary. Yet, with all its drfficulty, the task is attractive iitself. I am convinced that, without a thorough investigatioof the social and economic conditions, no attempt to write a general history of the RomaEmpire cabe successful. 目录
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