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The great leveler : violence and the history of inequality from the Stone Age to the twenty-first century / Walter Scheidel. Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, 2017. ISBN:  9780691165028 (hc.) Series:  Princeton economic history of the Western world. Description:  xvii, 504 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. Contents:  Introduction: The Challenge of Inequality -- A Brief History Of Inequality. The Rise of Inequality -- Empires of Inequality -- Up and Down -- War. Total War -- The Great Compression -- Preindustrial Warfare and Civil War -- Revolution. Communism -- Before Lenin -- Collapse. State Failure and Systems Collapse -- Plague. The Black Death -- Pandemics, Famine, and War -- Alternatives. Reform, Recession, and Representation -- Economic Development and Education -- What If ? From History to Counterfactuals -- Inequality Redux And The Future Of Leveling. -- In Our Time -- What Does the Future Hold? -- Appendix: The Limits of Inequality.   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Status   Woodlawn Public Library Adult Nonfiction 305.512 S318g Checked in Add Copy to MyList Central Library Adult Nonfiction 305.512 S318g Checked in Add Copy to MyList

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