The great leveler : violence and the history of inequality from the Stone Age to the twenty-first century
Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- CONTENTS -- List of Figures and Tables -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: The Challenge of Inequality -- PART I. A BRIEF HISTORY OF INEQUALITY -- 1. The Rise of Inequality -- 2. Empires of Inequality -- 3. Up and Down -- PART II. WAR -- 4. Total War -- 5...
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| Format: | E-Book |
| Sprache: | English |
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Princeton Oxford : Princeton University Press,
2018
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| Mit dem übergeordneten Werk verknüpfte Titel: | The Princeton economic history of the western world
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| Schlagworte: | Soziale Ungleichheit Verteilungskonflikt Sozialgeschichte Welt Violence Equality Krieg, ...-gnd Equality-History Violence-History HISTORY / World mehr... |
| Umfang: | 1 Online-Ressource (xvii, 504 Seiten) |
| Zusammenfassung: | Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- CONTENTS -- List of Figures and Tables -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: The Challenge of Inequality -- PART I. A BRIEF HISTORY OF INEQUALITY -- 1. The Rise of Inequality -- 2. Empires of Inequality -- 3. Up and Down -- PART II. WAR -- 4. Total War -- 5. The Great Compression -- 6. Preindustrial Warfare and Civil War -- PART III. REVOLUTION -- 7. Communism -- 8. Before Lenin -- PART IV. COLLAPSE -- 9. State Failure and Systems Collapse -- PART V. PLAGUE -- 10. The Black Death -- 11. Pandemics, Famine, and War -- PART VI. ALTERNATIVES -- 12. Reform, Recession, and Representation -- 13. Economic Development and Education -- 14. What If ? From History to Counterfactuals -- PART VII. INEQUALITY REDUX AND THE FUTURE OF LEVELING -- 15. In Our Time -- 16. What Does the Future Hold? -- Appendix: The Limits of Inequality -- Bibliography -- Index |
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| Beschreibung: | 1 Online-Ressource (xvii, 504 Seiten) |
| ISBN: | 9780691184319 0691184313 9780691183251 0691183252 9780691165028 0691165025 |