The Great Leveler
Violence and the History of Inequality from the Stone Age to the Twenty-First Century
1st Edition
Published on 18. September 2018
528 pages
978-0-691-18431-9 (ISBN)
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English
Place of publication
Princeton
United States
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De Gruyter
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Professional and scholarly
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Digital original
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45 b/w illus.
45 b/w illus.
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978-0-691-18431-9 (9780691184319)
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Walter Scheidel
The Great Leveler
Violence and the History of Inequality from the Stone Age to the Twenty-First Century
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09/2018
Princeton University Press
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The Great Leveler
Violence and the History of Inequality from the Stone Age to the Twenty-First Century
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Walter Scheidel is the Dickason Professor in the Humanities, Professor of Classics and History, and a Kennedy-Grossman Fellow in Human Biology at Stanford University. The author or editor of sixteen previous books, he has published widely on premodern social and economic history, demography, and comparative history. He lives in Palo Alto, California.
Content
- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- Dedication
- CONTENTS
- List of Figures and Tables
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: The Challenge of Inequality
- PART I. A BRIEF HISTORY OF INEQUALITY
- 1. The Rise of Inequality
- 2. Empires of Inequality
- 3. Up and Down
- PART II. WAR
- 4. Total War
- 5. The Great Compression
- 6. Preindustrial Warfare and Civil War
- PART III. REVOLUTION
- 7. Communism
- 8. Before Lenin
- PART IV. COLLAPSE
- 9. State Failure and Systems Collapse
- PART V. PLAGUE
- 10. The Black Death
- 11. Pandemics, Famine, and War
- PART VI. ALTERNATIVES
- 12. Reform, Recession, and Representation
- 13. Economic Development and Education
- 14. What If ? From History to Counterfactuals
- PART VII. INEQUALITY REDUX AND THE FUTURE OF LEVELING
- 15. In Our Time
- 16. What Does the Future Hold?
- Appendix: The Limits of Inequality
- Bibliography
- Index
