Violence and history of inequality from stone age to XXI of century.Walter Шайдель (sometimes he on the English manner is named Уолтер of Шейдел) is the Austrian historian, professor of Stanford, specialist in area of economic history and historical demography, author of bright historical conception that establishes a connection between violence and level of inequality. Stable, peaceful times play in favour of to economic inequality, and cruel shocks abbreviate a break between rich and poor. Шайдель names four principal reasons of such reduction, comparing them to four riders of Apocalypse - symbol of chaos and global catastrophe. These four riders is war, revolution, disintegration of the state and scale epidemics. All these factors, except the last, are related to boundless violence, and all and singular entail the endless suffering and millions victims. Exactly violence of Шайдель names a "great leveller".Копирайт© Princeton University Press, 2017© Translation. О. Перфильев, 2019© ℗ LTD. "Publishing House АСТ", "Audiobook", 2020Producer of the audio recording : Татьяна Плюта

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