Tag: 19th Century History
Book Summary: “Special Providence: American Foreign Policy and How It Changed the World” by Walter Russell Mead
Book Summary: “States and Power in Africa” by Jeffrey Herbst
Book Summary:“Leonardo to the Internet” by Thomas Misa
Book Summary: “The Persistence of the Old Regime” by Arno Mayer
Book Summary: “The Pursuit of Power” by William McNeill
Book Summary: “War in World History (Vol 2)” by Morillo, Black and Lococo
Book Summary: “A History of Warfare” by John Keegan
Book Summary: “The Institutional Revolution” by Douglass Allen
Book Summary: “The Plough that Broke the Steppes” by David Moon
Book Summary: “State, Economy and the Great Divergence” by Peer Vries
Book Summary: “Kicking Away the Ladder” by Ha-Joon Chang
Book Summary: “Knowledge and Competitive Advantage” by Johann Peter Murmann
Book Summary: “Networked Machinists: High-Technology Industries in Antebellum America” by David Meyer
Book Summary: “The British Industrial Revolution in Global Perspective” by Robert Allen
Book Summary: “Ethnic America: A History” by Thomas Sowell
Article Summary: “Cotton, Slavery and the New History of Capitalism” by Olmstead and Rhode
Article Summary: “A Nation of Immigrants: Assimilation and Economic Outcomes” by Abramitzky et al
Book Summary: “Empire: How Britain Made the Modern World” by Niall Ferguson
Book Summary: “Cousins’ War: Religion, Politics, Civil War, and the Triumph of the Anglo-America” by Kevin Phillips
Book Summary: “The Tragedy of Great Power Politics” by John Mearsheimer
Book Summary: “The Agricultural Systems of the World: An Evolutionary Approach” by David Grigg
Book Summary: “Horses at Work: Horses in Industrial America” by Ann Norton Greene
Book Summary: “Alchemy of Air: … the Scientific Discovery that Fed the World” by Thomas Hager
Book Summary: “Prime Movers of Globalization: The History of Diesel Engines and Gas Turbines” by Vaclav Smil
Book Summary: “The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil…” by Daniel Yergin
Book Summary: “Tools for the Job: A Short History of Machine Tools” by LTC Rolt
Book Summary: “The Enlightened Economy: An Economic History of Britain 1700-1850” by Joel Mokyr
Book Summary: “The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers” by Paul Kennedy
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: “Why did Europe Conquer the World?” by Philip Hoffman
Book Summary: “Invisible Weapon: Telecommunications and International Politics 1851-1945” by Daniel Headrick
Book Summary: “The Birth of Plenty: How the Prosperity of the Modern World was Created” by William J. Bernstein
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