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Tag: Agrarian Societies

April 8, 2021April 11, 2021 Michael Magoon

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

March 31, 2021April 16, 2021 Michael Magoon

Book Summary: “Geopolitics in Late Antiquity” by Hyun Jin Kim

March 30, 2021April 11, 2021 Michael Magoon

Book Summary: “A History of World Agriculture” by Mazoyer and Roudart

March 15, 2021April 16, 2021 Michael Magoon

Book Summary: “The Fate of Rome: Climate, Disease and the End of an Empire” by Kyle Harper

January 26, 2021March 18, 2021 Michael Magoon

Book Summary: “The Age of Wood” by Roland Ennos

January 15, 2021April 11, 2021 Michael Magoon

Book Summary: “Evolution of Human Societies” by Johnson and Earle

May 8, 2020March 18, 2021 Michael Magoon

Book Summary: “End of the Old Order in Rural Europe” by Jerome Blum

April 21, 2020April 15, 2021 Michael Magoon

Book Summary: The Making of Europe… 950-1350” by Robert Bartlett

April 2, 2020March 18, 2021 Michael Magoon

Book Summary: “Marriage and Civilization: How Monogamy Made Us Human” by William Tucker

March 31, 2020April 15, 2021 Michael Magoon

Article Summary: “Chinese Economic Performance in the Long Run” by Angus Maddison

March 11, 2020April 11, 2021 Michael Magoon

Course Summary: “Principles of Human Ecology” by Peter Richerson et al

February 10, 2020April 15, 2021 Michael Magoon

Book Summary: “Violence and Social Orders” by North, Wallis and Weingast

January 24, 2020April 15, 2021 Michael Magoon

Book Summary: “Why Europe?: The Medieval Origins of Its Special Path” by Michael Mitteraur

January 13, 2020April 15, 2021 Michael Magoon

Book Summary: “Unbound: How Eight Technologies Made Us Human” by Richard L. Currier

January 8, 2020April 15, 2021 Michael Magoon

Book Summary: “Guns, Germs, and Steel” by Jared Diamond

January 6, 2020April 19, 2021 Michael Magoon

Book Summary: “Foragers, Farmers and Fossil Fuels” by Ian Morris

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