{"pk":38257,"title":"Pulling a Little Optimism Out of a Very Grim Account of Global Inequality. A Review of The Great Leveler: Violence and the History of Inequality from the Stone Age to the Twenty-First Century by Walter Scheidel (Princeton University Press, 2017)","subtitle":null,"abstract":"A Review of \nThe Great Leveler: Violence and the History of Inequality from the Stone Age to the Twenty-First Century\n by Walter Scheidel (Princeton University Press, 2017)","language":"en","license":{"name":"Creative Commons Attribution 4.0","short_name":"CC BY 4.0","text":"Attribution — You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.\n\nNo additional restrictions — You may not apply legal terms or technological measures that legally restrict others from doing anything the license permits.","url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0"},"keywords":[{"word":"Scheidel"},{"word":"inequality"},{"word":"Comparative History"},{"word":"Global History"}],"section":"Book Reviews","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/0hb2v9j1","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Daniel","middle_name":"","last_name":"Hoyer","name_suffix":"","institution":"George Brown College\nSeshat: Global History Databank","department":"None"}],"date_submitted":"2018-03-18T15:21:13-05:00","date_accepted":"2018-03-18T15:21:13-05:00","date_published":"2018-06-30T02:00:00-05:00","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cliodynamics/article/38257/galley/28795/download/"}]}