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Why Did Europe Conquer the World?

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By Walter Scheidel
| The Montreal Review Verified
A hundred years ago, Europeans controlled four-fifths of the world’s land surface outside Antarctica. Philip Hoffman, a prominent economic historian at the California Institute of Technology, asks what had made this possible. His answer is deceptively simple: if you want to conquer most of the globe, you need to be really, really good at waging war.
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„Wielki zrównywacz. Przemoc i historia nierówności od epoki kamienia do XXI wieku”. Fragment

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By Walter Scheidel
| Rzeczpospolita Verified
Książka Waltera Scheidla, „Wielki zrównywacz. Przemoc i historia nierówności od epoki kamienia do XXI wieku”, przeł. Paweł Szadkowski, ukazała się w czerwcu nakładem wydawnictwa Glowbook, Sieradz 2025. Tytuł i śródtytuły pochodzą od redakcji Ile możemy się dowiedzieć o dynamice nierówności z historii? Moim zdaniem: bardzo dużo – ale nadal nie tyle, ile chcielibyśmy wiedzieć. Zajmijmy się pierwszą częścią odpowiedzi.
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The Earth Transformed — an epic survey of our interaction with the environment

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By Walter Scheidel
| Financial Times Verified
Some 4,300 years ago, Naram-Sin decided he was a living god.
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