During his work as an historian, he dealt in many of his studies with topics concerning economic history[3] and used statistical methodologies, among others.
[4][5][6][7][8][9][10] His studies, in contrast to the previous idea of a "civilization" coming from outside, led him to consider Sardinia as one of the oldest colonies in the world, and to consider what was called its "immobility" as a consequence of such colonization.
I meccanismi del commercio coloniale si combinarono con la continua esportazione degli introiti, con le tasse e con i tributi, deprivando la Sardegna dei suoi beni naturali e riducendo la massa della popolazione al più scarso livello di sussistenza the determinants of the problem of backwardness were the government policy and the practice adopted on the island by the foreign masters.
tutti questi esempi tratti dalla storia sarda servono quindi a dimostrare la fallacia di modelli euro-centrici del processo storico in un paese dov’è in gioco non tanto il progresso quanto la sopravvivenza.
Sotto questo aspetto la Sardegna, una delle più vecchie dipendenze coloniali del mondo, non è stato certamente un caso isolato all these examples taken from Sardinian history therefore serve to demonstrate the fallacy of Euro-centric models of the historical process in a country where not so much progress as survival is at stake.