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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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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 is the first book to chart the crucial role of

Author Biography:

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 seventeen previous books, he has published widely on premodern social and economic history, demography, and comparative history. He lives in Palo Alto, California.
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September 18th, 2018
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  • General (US: Trade)
  • Tertiary Education (US: College)
Illustrations
45 b/w illus.
Pages
528
Dimensions
135x205x35
ISBN-13
9780691183251
Product ID
27808119

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