Walter Scheidel

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 sixteen previous books, he has published widely on premodern social and economic history, demography, and comparative history. He lives in Palo Alto, California.

Ebooks

The Great Leveler: Violence and the History of Inequality from the Stone Age to the Twenty-First Century

Escape from Rome: The Failure of Empire and the Road to Prosperity

The Great Leveler: Violence and the History of Inequality from the Stone Age to the Twenty-First Century

What Is Ancient History?

Debating Roman Demography

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

El gran nivelador: Violencia e historia de la desigualdad desde la Edad de Piedra hasta el siglo XXI