The Great Leveler: Violence and the History of Inequality from the Stone Age to the Twenty-First Century : by Walter Scheidel, 2017, xviii + 504 pp., $18.95

The European Legacy 26 (7-8):821-822 (2021)
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Towards the end of this masterful work, Walter Scheidel writes, “Be careful what you wish for.” This sentence captured my feeling throughout most of my reading of the book. I confess that before re...

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