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Great Leveler
Violence and the History of Inequality from the Stone Age to the Twenty-First Century
Häftad, 2025
182 kr
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How only violence and catastrophes have consistently reduced inequality throughout world historyAre 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 …
The Dynamics of Ancient Empires
State Power from Assyria to Byzantium
Av Ian Morris, Walter Scheidel
Häftad, 2010
854 kr
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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, …
What Is Ancient History?
Inbunden, 2025
339 kr
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From one of today’s most innovative ancient historians, a provocative new vision of why ancient history matters—and why it needs to be told in a radically different, global wayIt’s easy to think that ancient history is, well, ancient history—obsolete, irrelevant, unjustifiably focused on Greece and …
Escape from Rome
The Failure of Empire and the Road to Prosperity
Häftad, 2021
227 kr
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The gripping story of how the end of the Roman Empire was the beginning of the modern worldThe fall of the Roman Empire has long been considered one of the greatest disasters in history. But in this groundbreaking book, Walter Scheidel argues that Rome's dramatic collapse was actually the best …
The Oxford World History of Empire
Volume Two: The History of Empires
Av Peter Fibiger Bang, C. A. Bayly m. fl.
Inbunden, 2021
2907 kr
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This is the first world history of empire, reaching from the third millennium BCE to the present. By combining synthetic surveys, thematic comparative essays, and numerous chapters on specific empires, its two volumes provide unparalleled coverage of imperialism throughout history and across …
The Oxford Handbook of the State in the Ancient Near East and Mediterranean
Av Peter Fibiger Bang, Walter Scheidel
Häftad, 2016
976 kr
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The Oxford Handbook of the State in the Ancient Near East and Mediterranean offers a comprehensive survey of ancient state formation in western Eurasia and North Africa. Eighteen experts introduce readers to a wide variety of systems spanning 4,000 years, from the earliest known states in world …
State Power in Ancient China and Rome
Av Walter Scheidel, Walter Scheidel
Inbunden, 2015
2092 kr
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The Chinese and the Romans created the largest empires of the ancient world. Separated by thousands of miles of steppe, mountains and sea, these powerful states developed independently and with very limited awareness of each other's existence. This parallel process of state formation served as a …
State Power in Ancient China and Rome
E-bok, 2014
472 kr
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Two thousand years ago, the Qin/Han and Roman empires were the largest political entities of the ancient world, developing simultaneously yet independently at opposite ends of Eurasia. Although their territories constituted only a small percentage of the global land mass, these two Eurasian …
The Oxford Handbook of the State in the Ancient Near East and Mediterranean
Av Peter Fibiger Bang, Walter Scheidel
Inbunden, 2013
3225 kr
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This Handbook offers a comprehensive survey of ancient state formation in western Eurasia and North Africa. Eighteen experts introduce readers to a wide variety of systems spanning 4,000 years, from the earliest known states in world history to the Roman Empire and its successors. It seeks to …
Rome and China
Comparative Perspectives on Ancient World Empires
Av Walter Scheidel, Walter Scheidel
Inbunden, 2009
2093 kr
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Two thousand years ago, up to one-half of the human species was contained within two political systems, the Roman empire in western Eurasia (centered on the Mediterranean Sea) and the Han empire in eastern Eurasia (centered on the great North China Plain). Both empires were broadly comparable in …
The Dynamics of Ancient Empires
State Power from Assyria to Byzantium
Av Ian Morris, Walter Scheidel m. fl.
Inbunden, 2009
2422 kr
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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 …
Oxford World History of Empire
Volume One: The Imperial Experience
Av Walter Scheidel, C. A. Bayly m. fl.
E-bok, 2020
2077 kr
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This is the first world history of empire, reaching from the third millennium BCE to the present. By combining synthetic surveys, thematic comparative essays, and numerous chapters on specific empires, its two volumes provide unparalleled coverage of imperialism throughout history and across …
Oxford World History of Empire
Volume Two: The History of Empires
Av Walter Scheidel, C. A. Bayly m. fl.
E-bok, 2020
2606 kr
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This is the first world history of empire, reaching from the third millennium BCE to the present. By combining synthetic surveys, thematic comparative essays, and numerous chapters on specific empires, its two volumes provide unparalleled coverage of imperialism throughout history and across …
Oxford World History of Empire
Volume Two: The History of Empires
Av Walter Scheidel, C. A. Bayly m. fl.
E-bok, 2020
2606 kr
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This is the first world history of empire, reaching from the third millennium BCE to the present. By combining synthetic surveys, thematic comparative essays, and numerous chapters on specific empires, its two volumes provide unparalleled coverage of imperialism throughout history and across …
State Power in Ancient China and Rome
Av Walter Scheidel, Walter Scheidel
Häftad, 2021
803 kr
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Two thousand years ago, the Qin/Han and Roman empires were the largest political entities of the ancient world, developing simultaneously yet independently at opposite ends of Eurasia. Although their territories constituted only a small percentage of the global land mass, these two Eurasian …
The Oxford Handbook of Roman Studies
Av Alessandro Barchiesi, Walter Scheidel
Häftad, 2020
987 kr
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The Oxford Handbook of Roman Studies is an indispensable guide to the latest scholarship in this area. Over fifty distinguished scholars elucidate the contribution of material as well as literary culture to our understanding of the Roman world. The emphasis is particularly upon the new and exciting …
Oxford Handbook of Roman Studies
Av Alessandro Barchiesi, Walter Scheidel
Inbunden, 2010
3420 kr
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The Oxford Handbook of Roman Studies is an indispensable guide to the latest scholarship in this area. Over fifty distinguished scholars elucidate the contribution of material as well as literary culture to our understanding of the Roman world. The emphasis is particularly upon the new and exciting …
Oxford Handbook of the State in the Ancient Near East and Mediterranean
Av Walter Scheidel, Peter Fibiger Bang
E-bok, 2013
680 kr
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The Oxford Handbook of the State in the Ancient Near East and Mediterranean offers a comprehensive survey of ancient state formation in western Eurasia and North Africa. Eighteen experts introduce readers to a wide variety of systems spanning 4,000 years, from the earliest known states in world …
Dynamics of Ancient Empires
State Power from Assyria to Byzantium
Av Walter Scheidel, Ian Morris
E-bok, 2009
661 kr
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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 …
Rome and China
Comparative Perspectives on Ancient World Empires
E-bok, 2009
623 kr
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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, …
Rome and China
Comparative Perspectives on Ancient World Empires
Av Walter Scheidel, Walter Scheidel
Häftad, 2011
804 kr
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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, …
The Oxford World History of Empire
Volume One: The Imperial Experience
Av Peter Fibiger Bang, C. A. Bayly m. fl.
Inbunden, 2021
2989 kr
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This is the first world history of empire, reaching from the third millennium BCE to the present. By combining synthetic surveys, thematic comparative essays, and numerous chapters on specific empires, its two volumes provide unparalleled coverage of imperialism throughout history and across …
Oxford World History of Empire
Volume One: The Imperial Experience
Av Walter Scheidel, C. A. Bayly m. fl.
E-bok, 2020
2077 kr
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This is the first world history of empire, reaching from the third millennium BCE to the present. By combining synthetic surveys, thematic comparative essays, and numerous chapters on specific empires, its two volumes provide unparalleled coverage of imperialism throughout history and across …
Rome and China
Comparative Perspectives on Ancient World Empires
E-bok, 2009
554 kr
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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, …
Dynamics of Ancient Empires
State Power from Assyria to Byzantium
Av Walter Scheidel, Ian Morris
E-bok, 2009
661 kr
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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 …
Ancient Economy
Av Walter Scheidel, Sitta von Reden
Inbunden, 2002
2713 kr
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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 …
Ancient Economy
Av Walter Scheidel, Sitta von Reden
Häftad, 2002
1021 kr
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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 …
Cities, Peasants and Food in Classical Antiquity
Essays in Social and Economic History
Av Peter Garnsey, Walter Scheidel
E-bok, 1998
823 kr
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Cities, Peasants and Food in Classical Antiquity
Essays in Social and Economic History
Av Peter Garnsey, Walter Scheidel
Inbunden, 1998
1173 kr
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Sixteen essays in the social and economic history of the ancient world, by a leading historian of classical antiquity, are here brought conveniently together. Three overlapping parts deal with the urban economy and society, peasants and the rural economy, and food-supply and food-crisis. While …
The Cambridge Companion to the Roman Economy
Häftad, 2012
653 kr
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This book offers readers a comprehensive and innovative introduction to the economy of the Roman Empire. Focusing on the principal determinants, features and consequences of Roman economic development and integrating additional web-based materials, it is designed as an up-to-date survey that is …
