Scheidel, Walter

Walter Scheidel

The Great Leveler: Violence and the History of Inequality from the Stone Age to the Twenty-First Century Walter Scheidel
How only violence and catastrophes have consistently reduced inequality throughout world history
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What Is Ancient History? Walter Scheidel
From one of today鈥檚 most innovative ancient historians, a provocative new vision of why ancient history matters鈥攁nd why it needs to be told in a radically different, global way
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Escape from Rome: The Failure of Empire and the Road to Prosperity Walter Scheidel
The gripping story of how the end of the Roman Empire was the beginning of the modern world
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The Science of Roman History: Biology, Climate, and the Future of the Past Edited by Walter Scheidel
How the latest cutting-edge science offers a fuller picture of life in Rome and antiquity
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The Great Leveler: Violence and the History of Inequality from the Stone Age to the Twenty-First Century Walter Scheidel Are mass violence and catastrophes the only forces that can seriously decrease economic inequality? To judge by thousands of years of history, the answer is yes. Tracing the global history of inequality from the Stone Age to today... Read More View Book