Walter Scheidel

Walter Scheidel's books

The Great Leveler: Violence and the History of Inequality from the Stone Age to the Twenty-First Century (The Princeton Economic History of the Western World)

3.81 avg rating — 1,582 ratings

Escape from Rome: The Failure of Empire and the Road to Prosperity (The Princeton Economic History of the Western World)

4.02 avg rating — 449 ratings

Rome and China: Comparative Perspectives on Ancient World Empires

3.50 avg rating — 44 ratings

The Cambridge Economic History of the Greco-Roman World

4.09 avg rating — 35 ratings

The Cambridge Companion to the Roman Economy

4.23 avg rating — 26 ratings

The Science of Roman History: Biology, Climate, and the Future of the Past

3.41 avg rating — 32 ratings

What is Ancient History?

3.59 avg rating — 29 ratings

The Ancient Economy

2.84 avg rating — 19 ratings

State Power in Ancient China and Rome

3.18 avg rating — 11 ratings

Death on the Nile: Disease and the Demography of Roman Egypt

3.40 avg rating — 5 ratings