Tag: 20th Century History
Book Summary: “The Great Stagnation” by Tyler Cowen
Book Summary: “Planet of Cities” by Shlomo Angel
Book Summary: “Special Providence: American Foreign Policy and How It Changed the World” by Walter Russell Mead
Book Summary: “The Ideas That Conquered the World” by Michael Mandelbaum
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 Arc of War” by Levy and Thompson
Book Summary: “Start-Up Nation” by Senor and Singer
Book Summary: “Creative Capital” by Spencer E. Ante
Book Summary: “Kicking Away the Ladder” by Ha-Joon Chang
Book Summary: “Botswana: A Modern Economic History” by Hillborn and Bolt
Book Summary: “Asia’s Next Giant: South Korea and Late Industrialization” by Alice Amsden
Book Summary: “Ethnic America: A History” by Thomas Sowell
Book Summary: “Trust: The Social Virtues and the Creation of Prosperity” by Francis Fukuyama
Book Summary: “Empire: How Britain Made the Modern World” by Niall Ferguson
Book Summary: “Accidental Empires: How… Silicon Valley Make Their Millions” by Robert X Cringely
Book Summary: “Iron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern Europe, 1944-1956” by Anne Applebaum
Book Summary: “Hard Drive: Bill Gates and the Making of the Microsoft Empire” by Wallace and Erickson
Book Summary: “The Tragedy of Great Power Politics” by John Mearsheimer
Book Summary: “Where Wizards Stay Up Late: Origins of the Internet” by Hafner and Lyon
Book Summary: “The Agricultural Systems of the World: An Evolutionary Approach” by David Grigg
Book Summary: “The Box: How the Shipping Container…” by Marc Levinson
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: “Transforming the Twentieth Century” by Vaclav Smil
Book Summary: “The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers” by Paul Kennedy
Book Summary: “Economics of Coercion and Conflict” by Mark Harrison
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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