Author: Michael Magoon
Blogger on History, Technology & Progress.
Author of the "From Poverty to Progress" series of books. Available on Amazon.
Book Summary: “Bourgeois Dignity: Why Economics Can’t Explain the Modern World” by Deirdre McCloskey
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Book Summary: “Human Accomplishment: The Pursuit of Excellence…” by Charles Murray
Book Summary: “Energy Transitions” by Vaclav Smil
Book Summary: “Prime Movers of Globalization: The History of Diesel Engines and Gas Turbines” by Vaclav Smil
Book Summary: “The Rational Optimist: How Prosperity Evolves” by Matt Ridley
Book Summary: “The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil…” by Daniel Yergin
Book Summary: “Power over Peoples: Technology, Environments and Western Imperialism…” by Daniel Headrick
Book Summary: “Technology: A World History” by Daniel Headrick
Book Summary: “Transforming the Twentieth Century” by Vaclav Smil
Book Summary: “When Information Came of Age: … Age or Reason 1700-1850” by Daniel Headrick
Book Summary: “Tools for the Job: A Short History of Machine Tools” by LTC Rolt
Book Summary: “Reading in the Brain: The New Science of How We Read” by Stanilaus Dehaene
Book Summary: “Enlightened Economy: An Economic History of Britain 1700-1850” by Joel Mokyr
Book Summary: “Science and Technology in World History: An Introduction” by McClellan and Dorn
Book Summary: “How the Scots Invented the Modern World” by Arthur Herman
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Book Summary: “A Farewell to Alms: A Brief Economic History of the World” by Gregory Clark
Book Summary: “Before the Dawn: Discovering the Lost History of Our Ancestors” by Nicholas Wade
Book Summary: “World on Fire” by Amy Chua
Book Summary: “The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers” by Paul Kennedy
Book Summary: “The Long Summer: How Climate Changed Civilization” by Brian Fagan
Book Summary: “Migration and Culture” by Thomas Sowell
Book Summary: “Conquests and Cultures” by Thomas Sowell
Book Summary: “Albion’s Seed: Four British Folkways in America” by David Hackett Fisher
Book Summary: “Why Europe?: The Rise of the West…” by Jack Goldstone
Book Summary: “Replenishing the Earth: The Settler Revolution and the Rise of the Angloworld” by James Belich
Book Summary: The Making of Europe… 950-1350” by Robert Bartlett
