13 New Nonfiction Books By Women That Will Nourish Your Brai

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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, the Stanford University historian 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

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every single time we observe a major reduction in economic inequality, it is linked to some massive, violent shock — an upending of the established order. And that's true across history

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/amp/making-sense/column-conquerors-inequality-four-horsemen-apocalypse

How the Muslim World Was Invented. The Complicated Origins of a Universal Idea

https://www.foreignaffairs.com/reviews/review-essay/2017-06-02/how-muslim-world-was-invented?amp