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November 24, 2021February 1, 2023 Michael Magoon

Book Summary: “Special Providence: American Foreign Policy and How It Changed the World” by Walter Russell Mead

October 27, 2021November 21, 2021 Michael Magoon

Book Summary:“Leonardo to the Internet” by Thomas Misa

October 18, 2021November 24, 2021 Michael Magoon

Book Summary: “The Sinews of Power: War, Money and the English State, 1688-1783″ by John Brewer

October 6, 2021November 21, 2021 Michael Magoon

Book Summary: “War in World History (Vol 2)” by Morillo, Black and Lococo

October 4, 2021December 2, 2021 Michael Magoon

Book Summary: “A History of Warfare” by John Keegan

September 24, 2021December 2, 2021 Michael Magoon

Book Summary: “The Institutional Revolution” by Douglass Allen

September 17, 2021November 21, 2021 Michael Magoon

Book Summary: “The Plough that Broke the Steppes” by David Moon

September 15, 2021December 2, 2021 Michael Magoon

Book Summary: “State, Economy and the Great Divergence” by Peer Vries

August 2, 2021November 21, 2021 Michael Magoon

Book Summary: “Kicking Away the Ladder” by Ha-Joon Chang

July 29, 2021December 2, 2021 Michael Magoon

Book Summary: “Escaping Poverty: The Origins of Modern Economic Growth” by Peer Vries

July 19, 2021December 2, 2021 Michael Magoon

Book Summary: “Energy and the English Industrial Revolution” by E. A. Wrigley

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 22, 2021December 2, 2021 Michael Magoon

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

May 18, 2021December 2, 2021 Michael Magoon

Book Summary: “Lineages of the Absolutist State” by Perry Anderson

May 5, 2021December 2, 2021 Michael Magoon

Book Summary: “Empire: How Britain Made the Modern World” by Niall Ferguson

April 20, 2021December 2, 2021 Michael Magoon

Book Summary: “Cousins’ War: Religion, Politics, Civil War, and the Triumph of the Anglo-America” by Kevin Phillips

April 13, 2021December 2, 2021 Michael Magoon

Book Summary: “Inventing Freedom: How the English… Made the Modern World” by Daniel Hannan

April 8, 2021December 2, 2021 Michael Magoon

Book Summary: “The Agricultural Systems of the World: An Evolutionary Approach” by David Grigg

May 2, 2020December 2, 2021 Michael Magoon

Book Summary: “When Information Came of Age: … Age or Reason 1700-1850” by Daniel Headrick

April 29, 2020November 21, 2021 Michael Magoon

Book Summary: “How the Scots Invented the Modern World” by Arthur Herman

April 29, 2020November 21, 2021 Michael Magoon

Book Summary: “A Farewell to Alms: A Brief Economic History of the World” by Gregory Clark

April 25, 2020December 2, 2021 Michael Magoon

Book Summary: “The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers” by Paul Kennedy

April 22, 2020December 2, 2021 Michael Magoon

Book Summary: “Why Europe?: The Rise of the West…” by Jack Goldstone

April 21, 2020December 2, 2021 Michael Magoon

Book Summary: “Why did Europe Conquer the World?” by Philip Hoffman

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