Name: Death on the Nile: Disease and the Demography of Roman Egypt
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Author: Walter Scheidel
ISBN: 9789004123236

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Death on the Nile: Disease and the Demography of Roman Egypt

Type

Physical Book

Author

Walter Scheidel

Publisher

Brill

Language

English

Pages

320

Format

Hardcover

Dimensions

24.7 x 16.8 x 2.5 cm

Weight

0.66 kg.

ISBN

9004123237

ISBN13

9789004123236

Synopsis "Death on the Nile: Disease and the Demography of Roman Egypt"

A pioneering comparative and multidisciplinary study of the interaction between local disease environments and demographic structure, this book breaks new ground in reconstructing the population history of Egypt during the Roman period and beyond.Drawing on a wide range of sources from ancient census data and funerary commemorations to modern medical accounts, statistics and demographic models, the author explores the nature of premodern disease patterns, challenges existing assumptions about ancient age structure, and develops a new methodology for the assessment of Egyptian poplation size.Contextualising the study of Roman Egypt within the broader framework of premodern demography, ecology and medical history, this is the first attempt to interpret and explain demographic conditions in antiquity in terms of the underlying causes of disease and death.

Walter Scheidel

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Walter Scheidel is a professor of Humanities and Classics and History at Stanford University. His research spans from ancient social and economic history to premodern historical demography, focusing on inequality and state formation. He has written or co-edited 21 books and published more than 260 articles and reviews

Among his most notable works is The Great Leveler: Violence and the History of Inequality from the Stone Age to the Twenty-First Century (2017), which analyzes the evolution of inequality throughout history. Another notable work is Escape from Rome: The Failure of Empire and the Road to Prosperity (2019), where he explores the fall of the Roman Empire and its implications for subsequent economic development. These publications fall within the genre of economic and social history.

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