Matthew White's 2011 quantitative ranking of history's 100 worst atrocities by death toll — providing statistical estimates and uncertainty ranges for every major historical mass death event — the comprehensive reference for historical violence at scale.
Creates the only comprehensive quantitative ranking of historical atrocities — by applying statistical methods to estimate death tolls from ancient to modern massacres, famines, and wars, White provides a framework for understanding the scale of historical violence that no previous work had attempted.
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