4 results for 'Walter Scheidel'

"One of the Financial Times' Best Books of 2019: Economics""One of the Evening Standard's Best Books of 2019""Finalist for the PROSE Award in Archaeology and Ancient History, Association of American...

From one of today's most innovative ancient historians, a provocative new vision of why ancient history matters and why it needs to be told in a radically different, global wayIt's easy to think that...

Two thousand years ago, the Qin/Han and Roman empires were the largest political entities of the ancient world, developing simultaneously yet independently at opposite ends of Eurasia. Although their...

The gripping story of how the end of the Roman Empire was the beginning of the modern worldThe fall of the Roman Empire has long been considered one of the greatest disasters in history. But in this...