But in this groundbreaking book, Walter Scheidel argues that Rome's dramatic collapse was actually the best thing that ever happened, clearing the path for Europe's economic rise and the creation of the modern age.

No one before Walter Scheidel has shown us just how closely they have been intertwined. This is a masterful new assessment of an age-old problem.

A pioneering comparative and multidisciplinary study of the interaction between local disease environments and demographic structure, this book breaks new ground in reconstructing the population history of Egypt during the Roman period and ...

Taken as a whole the book exemplifies the range of interdisciplinary perspectives on the ancient economy, and illustrates the methodological approaches scholars have deployed to understand it.

Yet here is a collection of pioneering case studies, compiled by Walter Scheidel, that sheds new light on the prominent aspects of imperial state formation.

A perturbadora tese de Walter Scheidel traz elementos inovadores e urgentes para uma das discussões centrais de hoje.

C’est une fresque immense que l’historien Walter Scheidel a brossée : sur des milliers d’années et au sein des sociétés les plus diverses, il met au jour les processus qui ont fait reculer les inégalités économiques.

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