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D. LIST OF SOME BOOKS USED. 



This list does not pretend to be complete. Many other works are referred 

 to here and there in the notes on the text. But I feel bound to mention the 

 names of some, particularly those dealing with conditions that did or still do 

 exist in the modern world. Miscellaneous reading of this kind has been to me 

 a great help in the endeavour to understand the full bearing of ancient evidence, 

 and (I hope) to judge it fairly. It is on the presentation and criticism of that 

 evidence that I depend: for the great handbooks of Antiquities do not help 

 me much. The practice of making a statement and giving in support of it a 

 reference or references is on the face of it sound. But, when the witnesses 

 cited are authors writing under widely various conditions of time and place 

 and personal circumstances, it is necessary whenever possible to appraise 

 each one separately. And when the aim is, not to write a technical treatise on 

 'scientific' lines, but to describe what is a highly important background of a 

 great civilization, a separate treatment of witnesses needs no apology. I cannot 

 cite in detail the references to conditions in a number of countries, for instance 

 India and China, but I have given them by page or chapter so as to be con- 

 sulted with ease. 



(i) AGRICULTURE AND RUSTIC LIFE AND LABOUR. 



M Weber, Die Rb'mische Agrargeschichte, Stuttgart 1891. 

 C Daubeny, Lectures on Roman husbandry ', Oxford 1857. 

 LI Storr-Best, Varro on farming, translated with Introduction commentary 



and excursus, London 1912. 



E de Laveleye, Primitive Property ', English translation 1878. 

 H Bliimner, article 'Landwirtschaft' in I Miiller's Handbuch vi ii 2, ed 3 



PP 533 foil. 



A E Zimmern, The Greek Commonwealth, Oxford 1911. 

 Biichsenschiitz, Besitz und Erwerb, Halle 1869. 

 Columella of Husbandry ', translation (anonymous), London 1745. 



(2) ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL MATTERS. . 



Adam Smith, Wealth of Nations, passim. 



H Nissen, 'Italische Landeskunde, Berlin 1883-1902. 



K W Nitzsch, Geschichte der Rb'mischen Republik, vol n, Leipzig 1885. 



L Bloch, Soziale Kampfe im alten Rom, ed in Berlin 1913. 



David Hume, Essays, ed 1760 (Essay xi of the populousness of antient nations). 



J Beloch, Die Bevblkerung der Griechisch-Romischen Welt, Leipzig 1886. 



H Francotte, E Industrie dans la Grece ancienne, Bruxelles 1900-1. 



O Seeck, Geschichte des Untergangs der antiken Welt, Berlin 1897-1913. 



O Seeck, ' Die Schatzungsordnung Diocletians,' in Zeitschrift fur Social- und 



Wirthschaftsgeschichte, Weimar 1896. 



H Schiller, Geschichte der Romischen Kaiserzeit, Gotha 1883-7. 

 S Dill, Roman society in the last century of the Western Empire, London 1898. 

 G Gilbert, Handbuch der Griechischen Staatsalterthiimer, vol n, Leipzig 1885. 



