Boak, AER (English spelling) BoakAER

...Advances in medicine and biology led to attention being paid to human factors, leading to the theory of O. Seeck's "extinction of the best," and the theories of T. Frank and MP Nilsson, who argued that racial intermixture had made the Roman citizen body inferior. These also faced severe criticism, and faded into obscurity, especially after the crimes of Nazism. AER Boak used the results of demography to develop a theory of decline that attributed the main cause to a shortage of manpower due to population decline. Historical materialism provided a new perspective on the rise and fall of the Roman Empire, which had previously been considered solely from the perspective of the superstructure, by looking at it from the perspective of socio-economic structure. ...

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…医学や生物学の進歩は人間的要因にも目を向けさせ，ゼークO.Seeckの〈最良者の絶滅〉論，人種混交によるローマ市民団の劣性化を説くフランクT.FrankやニルソンM.P.Nilssonの説を生んだが，これらも厳しい批判を浴び，ことにナチズムによる罪禍ののちは影を潜めた。ボークA.E.R.Boakは人口統計学の成果を援用して，人口減少による人力不足を主因とする没落論を展開した。　史的唯物論はそれまでもっぱら上部構造の面から考えられていたローマ帝国盛衰論を，社会経済的構造の面からみる新視点を与えた。…

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