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Walter Scheidel

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Dickason Professor in the Humanities
Professor of Classics and History
Catherine R. Kennedy and Daniel L. Grossman Fellow in Human Biology

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.

Scheidel's research ranges from ancient social and economic history and premodern historical demography to the comparative and transdisciplinary world history of inequality, state formation, and human welfare. He is particularly interested in connecting the humanities, the social sciences, and the life sciences.

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Walter Scheidel

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Books from Walter Scheidel

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

Rome and China: Comparative Perspectives on Ancient World Empires

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

The Cambridge Economic History of the Greco-Roman World

The Science of Roman History: Biology, Climate, and the Future of the Past

The Cambridge Companion to the Roman Economy

State Power in Ancient China and Rome

The Oxford Handbook of Roman Studies

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

Grundpacht Und Lohnarbeit in Der Landwirtschaft Des Roemischen Italien

Oxford Handbook of the State in the Ancient Near East and Mediterranean

Oxford World History of Empire: Volume One: The Imperial Experience

The Oxford World History of Empire: Two-Volume Set

The Oxford World History of Empire: Volume Two: The History of Empires

The Cambridge Economic History of the Greco-Roman World

Debating Roman Demography (Mnemosyne, Bibliotheca Classica Batava Supplementum)

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The Great Leveler: Violence and the History of Inequality from the Stone Age to the Twenty-First Century (The Princeton Economic History of the Western World Series)

The Oxford World History of Empire: Volume Two: The History of Empires