
Tag: American History


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: “The Company” by Micklethwait and Woolridge

Book Summary: “Creative Capital” by Spencer E. Ante

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: “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: “Accidental Empires: How… Silicon Valley Make Their Millions” by Robert X Cringely

Book Summary: “Hard Drive: Bill Gates and the Making of the Microsoft Empire” by Wallace and Erickson

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

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

Book Summary: “Where Wizards Stay Up Late: Origins of the Internet” by Hafner and Lyon

Book Summary: “Horses at Work: Horses in Industrial America” by Ann Norton Greene

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

Book Summary: “How the Old World Ended: The Anglo-Dutch-American Revolution 1500-1800” by Jonathan Scott

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: “Albion’s Seed: Four British Folkways in America” by David Hackett Fisher

Book Summary: “Replenishing the Earth: The Settler Revolution and the Rise of the Angloworld” by James Belich

Book Summary: “The Birth of Plenty: How the Prosperity of the Modern World was Created” by William J. Bernstein
