Excerpt from Roman Economic Conditions: To the Close of the Republic
This economic study of Rome was undertaken and practically completed in fulfilment of my obligations as Alexander Mackenzie Fellow in Political Science in the University of Toronto during the sessions 1902-1904. The subject was suggested by Professor Seligman's review of Henri Francotte's L' Industrie dans la Grece ancienne in the Political Science Quarterly (Vol. xvi, No.3.) The aim throughout has been to relate the subject to the primary sources. I have been careful, therefore, to read the original, and to verify references contained in the secondary, literature. Students who disagree with the conclusions which have been deduced will be grateful, I believe, that there has been thus collated the material from which conclusions may be drawn. I have not thought it expedient to encumber the foot-notes with an array-of secondary literature. I am none the less greatly indebted to various writers for valuable hints and suggestions. In general I have considered it a sufficient acknowledgment of the assistance which an author has rendered me to include his work in my bibliography. No one, however, can investigate any period of Roman history without being indebted to the monumental works of Theodor Mommsen. Bureau de la Malle's Economic politique des Remains is somewhat antiquated, but the student of Roman economic history cannot afford to neglect it. Deloume's Les Manieurs d'argent a Rome is exceedingly suggestive and brilliant, and I have used it with advantage. The quaint old volumes, The Husbandry of the Ancients by Adam Dickson, are a patient and laborious, if uncritical, study of Roman agriculture; I felt more at liberty to avail myself of his work because it is within the reach of comparatively few students.
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