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The First and Greatest Divergence in the History of the World - Walter Scheidel, Escape from Rome: The Failure of Empire and the Road to Prosperity (Princeton/Oxford, Princeton University Press, 2019, 670 p.)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 March 2021

John A. Hall*
Affiliation:
McGill University, Canada [john.anthony.hall@mcgill.ca]
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Book Review
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© European Journal of Sociology 2021

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References

1 Hall, J. A., 1985, Powers and Liberties: The Causes and Consequences of the Rise of the West (Oxford, Blackwell).Google Scholar