Walter Scheidel: 4 books
The Great Leveler
Violence and the History of Inequality from the Stone Age to the Twenty-First Century
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2018
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, Walter Scheidel shows that it never dies peacefully. The Great Leveler...
The Dynamics of Ancient Empires
State Power from Assyria to Byzantium
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2009
The world's first known empires took shape in Mesopotamia between the eastern shores of the Mediterranean Sea and the Persian Gulf, beginning around 2350 BCE. The next 2,500 years witnessed sustained imperial growth, bringing a growing share of humanity under the control of ever-fewer states. Two...
by Walter Scheidel, Sitta von Reden
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
The Ancient Economy introduces readers to the nature of economic life in the ancient world, and provides a valuable guide to scholarly debates on the subject. The book describes and examines the economic processes and fluctuations of the ancient world, and shows how these relate to political and social...
Rome and China
Comparative Perspectives on Ancient World Empires
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2009
Transcending ethnic, linguistic, and religious boundaries, early empires shaped thousands of years of world history. Yet despite the global prominence of empire, individual cases are often studied in isolation. This series seeks to change the terms of the debate by promoting cross-cultural, comparative,...