Are mass violence and catastrophes the only forces that can seriously decrease economic inequality? To judge by thousands of years of history, the answer is yes. Tracing the global history of inequality from the Stone Age to today, Walter Scheidel shows that inequality never dies peacefully. Inequality declines when carnage and disaster strike and increases when peace and stability return. The Great Leveler is the first book to chart the crucial role of violent shocks in reducing inequality over the full sweep of human history around the world.
Ever since humans began to farm, herd livestock, and pass on their assets to future generations, economic inequality has been a defining feature of civilization. Over thousands of years, only violent events have significantly lessened inequality. The "Four Horsemen" of leveling--mass-mobilization warfare, transformative revolutions, state collapse, and catastrophic plagues--have repeatedly destroyed the fortunes of the rich. Scheidel identifies and examines these processes, from the crises of the earliest civilizations to the cataclysmic world wars and communist revolutions of the twentieth century. Today, the violence that reduced inequality in the past seems to have diminished, and that is a good thing. But it casts serious doubt on the prospects for a more equal future.
An essential contribution to the debate about inequality, The Great Leveler provides important new insights about why inequality is so persistent--and why it is unlikely to decline anytime soon.
Автор: Chakraborti Neil Название: Responding to Hate Crime ISBN: 1447308778 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781447308775 Издательство: Marston Book Services Рейтинг: Цена: 5542.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Bridging the gap between research and policy, this book provides new perspectives on the nature of hate crime victimisation and perpetration.
Автор: Friedman Название: Competing Memories ISBN: 1107185696 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781107185692 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 14256.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: A rigourous analysis of context in transitional justice, examining the successes and failures of truth and reconciliation commissions in post-conflict settings.
Автор: Leila Alikarami Название: Women and Equality in Iran: Law, Society and Activism ISBN: 1784533165 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781784533168 Издательство: Bloomsbury Academic Рейтинг: Цена: 17424.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: The most important global instrument for ensuring women`s rights is the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW), yet Iran is not a party to this.
Автор: Iadicola Peter, Shupe Anson Название: Violence Inequality & Human Frpb ISBN: 1442209496 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781442209497 Издательство: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers Рейтинг: Цена: 15206.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Violence, Inequality, and Human Freedom is a sociological introduction to the study of violence that looks at violence on three different levels-structural, institutional, and interpersonal. The third edition is updated throughout, including a new chapter on educational violence and revised sections on economic and international violence.
Описание: Finalist for the 2022 Cheiron Book Prize An Organ of Murder explores the origins of both popular and elite theories of criminality in the nineteenth-century United States, focusing in particular on the influence of phrenology. In the United States, phrenology shaped the production of medico-legal knowledge around crime, the treatment of the criminal within prisons and in public discourse, and sociocultural expectations about the causes of crime. The criminal was phrenology's ideal research and demonstration subject, and the courtroom and the prison were essential spaces for the staging of scientific expertise. In particular, phrenology constructed ways of looking as well as a language for identifying, understanding, and analyzing criminals and their actions. This work traces the long-lasting influence of phrenological visual culture and language in American culture, law, and medicine, as well as the practical uses of phrenology in courts, prisons, and daily life.
Автор: Williams Chad, Williams Kidada, Blain Keisha Название: Charleston Syllabus: Readings on Race, Racism, and Racial Violence ISBN: 0820349577 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780820349572 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 4019.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Provides a collection of new essays and columns published in the wake of the Emanuel AME Church massacre in Charleston, South Carolina, along with selected excerpts from key existing scholarly books and general-interest articles. The collection draws from a variety of disciplines and includes a selected and annotated bibliography for further reading.
Автор: Shipp Bill Название: Murder at Broad River Bridge ISBN: 082035161X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780820351612 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 3049.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: First published in 1981, Murder at the Broad River Bridge recounts the stunning details of the murder of Lieutenant Colonel Lemuel Penn by the Ku Klux Klan on a back-country Georgia road in 1964. Bill Shipp gives us, with shattering power, the true story of how a good, innocent, "uninvolved" man was killed during the Civil Rights turbulence of the mid-1960s.
Автор: Daudelin Название: Illegal Markets, Violence, and Inequality ISBN: 3319762486 ISBN-13(EAN): 9783319762487 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 7685.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Building on extensive interviews and field work, the authors map out the city`s drug markets and explore the reasons why some of those markets are violent, and others are not.
Автор: Ore, Ersula J. Название: Lynching ISBN: 1496824083 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781496824080 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 4389.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: While victims of antebellum lynchings were typically white men, postbellum lynchings became more frequent and more intense, with the victims more often black. After Reconstruction, lynchings exhibited and embodied links between violent collective action, American civic identity, and the making of the nation.Ersula J. Ore investigates lynching as a racialized practice of civic engagement, in effect an argument against black inclusion within the changing nation. Ore scrutinizes the civic roots of lynching, the relationship between lynching and white constitutionalism, and contemporary manifestations of lynching discourse and logic today. From the 1880s onward, lynchings, she finds, manifested a violent form of symbolic action that called a national public into existence, denoted citizenship, and upheld political community.Grounded in Ida B. Wells's summation of lynching as a social contract among whites to maintain a racial order, at its core, Ore's book speaks to racialized violence as a mode of civic engagement. Since violence enacts an argument about citizenship, Ore construes lynching and its expressions as part and parcel of America's rhetorical tradition and political legacy.Drawing upon newspapers, official records, and memoirs, as well as critical race theory, Ore outlines the connections between what was said and written, the material practices of lynching in the past, and the forms these rhetorics and practices assume now. In doing so, she demonstrates how lynching functioned as a strategy interwoven with the formation of America's national identity and with the nation's need to continually restrict and redefine that identity. In addition, Ore ties black resistance to lynching, the acclaimed exhibit Without Sanctuary, recent police brutality, effigies of Barack Obama, and the killing of Trayvon Martin.
Автор: Victoria E. Collins, Dawn L. Rothe Название: The Violence of Neoliberalism: Crime, Harm and Inequality ISBN: 1138584770 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781138584778 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 6583.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Drawing on a range of contemporary topics such as state violence, the carceral state, patriarchy, sports and entertainment, this book examines the impact of neoliberalism on society, bringing to the forefront a discussion of violence and harm and the inherent inequalities of neoliberalism.
Автор: Victoria E. Collins, Dawn L. Rothe Название: The Violence of Neoliberalism: Crime, Harm and Inequality ISBN: 1138584762 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781138584761 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 22202.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Drawing on a range of contemporary topics such as state violence, the carceral state, patriarchy, sports and entertainment, this book examines the impact of neoliberalism on society, bringing to the forefront a discussion of violence and harm and the inherent inequalities of neoliberalism.
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