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Books written by Walter Scheidel

The Dynamics of Ancient Empires: State Power from Assyria to Byzantium

Hill, E. (1999) “Lineage interests and nonreproductive strategies: An evolutionary approach to medieval religious women.” Human Nature 10: 109–34. Hill, G. F. (1951) Sources for Greek history between the Persian and Peloponnesian Wars, ...
The Dynamics of Ancient Empires: State Power from Assyria to Byzantium

305 Of course, not all of these foster brothers need have been the biological half-brothers of the Spartiates' sons; even so, as Ogden points out, “systematic mass-generation of nothoi should not be ruled out.”306 Foster care along ...
State Power in Ancient China and Rome

The volume concludes with a look at the preconditions for the emergence of divine rulership. Taken together, these pioneering contributions lay the foundations for a systematic comparative history of early empires.
Rome and China: Comparative Perspectives on Ancient World Empires

This series seeks to change the terms of the debate by promoting cross-cultural, comparative, and transdisciplinary perspectives on imperial state formation prior to the European colonial expansion.
The Oxford World History of Empire: Volume Two: The History of Empires

Empire Adrift: The Portuguese Court in Rio de Janeiro, 1808–1821. London. Winius, G. D. 1971. The Fatal History of Portuguese Ceylon: Transition to Dutch Rule. Cambridge, MA. Yun- Casalilla, B. 2018. Iberian World Empires and the ...
The Oxford World History of Empire: Volume Two: The History of Empires

“The Seleucids Imprisoned: Arsacid- Roman Hostage Submission and Its Hellenistic Precedents.” In J. Schlude and B. Rubin, Arsacids, Romans, and Local Elites: CrossCultural Interactions of the Parthian Empire, 25-50.
The Great Leveler: Violence and the History of Inequality from the Stone Age to the Twenty-First Century

The Great Leveler is the first book to chart the crucial role of violent shocks in reducing inequality over the full sweep of human history around the world.
On Human Bondage: After?Slavery and Social Death

This collection not only celebrates but also critiques and extends Orlando Patterson’s work, a landmark study of slavery that continues to inspire and provoke debate.
The Oxford World History of Empire: Volume One: The Imperial Experience

This is the first world history of empire, reaching from the third millennium BCE to the present.
Rome and China: Comparative Perspectives on Ancient World Empires

This series seeks to change the terms of the debate by promoting cross-cultural, comparative, and transdisciplinary perspectives on imperial state formation prior to the European colonial expansion.
The Cambridge Companion to the Roman Economy

This volume, which is organised thematically, provides a sophisticated introduction to and assessment of all aspects of its economic life.
On Human Bondage: After?Slavery and Social Death

This collection not only celebrates but also critiques and extends Orlando Patterson’s work, a landmark study of slavery that continues to inspire and provoke debate.
Escape from Rome: The Failure of Empire and the Road to Prosperity

The age of Agade: Inventing empire in ancient Mesopotamia. London: Routledge. Fouracre, Paul. 1995. “Frankish Gaul to 814.” In McKitterick 1995, 85–109. Fowden, Garth. 2011. “Contextualizing late antiquity: The first millennium.
The Great Leveler

The age of Agade: inventing empire in ancient Mesopotamia. London: Routledge. Fourquin, Guy. 1978. The anatomy of popular rebellion in the Middle Ages. Amsterdam: North-Holland. Foxhall, Lin. 1992. “The control of the Attic landscape.
State Power in Ancient China and Rome

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.
The Cambridge Economic History of the Greco-Roman World

The first comprehensive survey of the economies of classical antiquity.
The Oxford World History of Empire: Volume One: The Imperial Experience

... like maps, by no means unique to the early modern and modern periods, but nonetheless they often followed in the wake of imperial cartography and were dictated by similar logics. Modern European imperialism is in many ways about the ...
The Oxford Handbook of Roman Studies

"The Oxford Handbook of Roman Studies is a unique collection oi fifty-five articles which together explore the ways in which ancient Rome has been, is, and might be studied.
The Ancient Economy

2.9) In these two passages, both the (forced) liturgical spending of the wealthy and the expenditure of public funds on festivals and sacrifices are exposed as simply the private greed of individual poor citizens, conniving for money ...
The Oxford Handbook of the State in the Ancient Near East and Mediterranean

Tracing the evolution of the state from its beginnings to the early Middle Ages, this comprehensive handbook focuses on key institutions and dynamics while providing accessible accounts of states and empires in the ancient Near East and ...