All societies must deal with the possibility of violence, and they do so in different ways. This study integrates the problem of violence into a larger social science and historical framework, showing how economic and political behavior are closely linked ...

Wann immer es um Zukunftsentwürfe geht, kommt man an Harald Welzer nicht vorbei: Für das Gottlieb Duttweiler Institute gehört er zu den 100 wichtigsten Vordenkern der Welt, die Presse feiert sein letztes Buch "Selbst denken" als das wichtigste im vergangenen Jahr, seit 2012 leitet er das...

"This book gives a structured account of Egypt's transition from Ptolemaic to Roman rule by identifying key relationships between ecology, land tenure, taxation, administration and politics. It introduces theoretical perspectives from the social sciences and subjects them to empirical scrutiny...

Introduction: approaching the imperial Roman economy -- Central aims of the book -- Who will read this? Target audiences -- Lingering questions about imperial Rome -- The many faces of Roman economic history -- From fine-grained to 'big picture': methods and treatment of the evidence -- The...