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Month: June 2021

June 30, 2021December 2, 2021 Michael Magoon

Book Summary: “The Great Divergence: China, Europe and the Making of the Modern World” by Kenneth Pomeranz

June 29, 2021December 2, 2021 Michael Magoon

Book Summary: “The Role of Transportation in the Industrial Revolution” by Rick Szostak

June 28, 2021December 2, 2021 Michael Magoon

Book Summary: “How Solar Energy Became Cheap” by Gregory Nemet

June 25, 2021December 2, 2021 Michael Magoon

Book Summary: “The Long Road to the Industrial Revolution” by Jan Luiten van Zanden

June 24, 2021November 21, 2021 Michael Magoon

Book Summary: “Networked Machinists: High-Technology Industries in Antebellum America” by David Meyer

June 23, 2021November 21, 2021 Michael Magoon

Book Summary: “Cities of Commerce” by Oscar Gelderblom

June 22, 2021December 2, 2021 Michael Magoon

Book Summary: “The British Industrial Revolution in Global Perspective” by Robert Allen

June 21, 2021December 2, 2021 Michael Magoon

Book Summary: “Islam, Authoritarianism and Underdevelopment” by Ahmet Kuru

June 18, 2021December 2, 2021 Michael Magoon

Book Summary: “The Big Ratchet: How Humanity Thrives in the Face of Natural Crisis” by Ruth DeFries

June 17, 2021December 2, 2021 Michael Magoon

Book Summary: “A Troublesome Inheritance: Genes, Race and Human History” by Nicholas Wade

June 17, 2021November 21, 2021 Michael Magoon

Book Summary: “Going the Distance: Eurasian Trade and the Rise of the Business Corporation, 1400-1700” by Ron Harris

June 16, 2021 Michael Magoon

Article Summary: “Africa’s Growth Tragedy: Policy and Ethnic Divisions” by Easterly and Levine

June 16, 2021June 16, 2021 Michael Magoon

Article Summary: “Tropics, Germs, and Crops: How Endowments Influence Economic Development” by Easterly and Levine

June 4, 2021December 2, 2021 Michael Magoon

Book Summary: “Asia’s Next Giant: South Korea and Late Industrialization” by Alice Amsden

June 3, 2021December 2, 2021 Michael Magoon

Book Summary: “Military Revolution and Political Change” by Brian Downing

June 1, 2021June 3, 2021 Michael Magoon

Book Summary: “Temperate Forest Biomes” by Bernd H. Kuenneck

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