Tag: Book Summary
Book Summary: “The Long Summer: How Climate Changed Civilization” by Brian Fagan
Book Summary: “Migration and Culture” by Thomas Sowell
Book Summary: “Conquests and Cultures” by Thomas Sowell
Book Summary: “Albion’s Seed: Four British Folkways in America” by David Hackett Fisher
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: The Making of Europe… 950-1350” by Robert Bartlett
Book Summary: “Why did Europe Conquer the World?” by Philip Hoffman
Book Summary: “Life in a Medieval City” by Joseph and Frances Gies
Book Summary: “The Medieval City” by Norman Pounds
Book Summary: “Cultural Evolution: How Darwinian Theory Can Explain Human Culture” by Alex Mesoudi
Book Summary: “Nature’s Magic: Synergy in Evolution…” by Peter Corning
Book Summary: “First Modern Economy… Dutch Economy 1500-1815” by Jan de Vries
Book Summary: “Fifty Inventions that Shaped the Modern Economy” by Tim Harford
Book Summary: “Economics of Coercion and Conflict” by Mark Harrison
Book Summary: “Amsterdam: A History of the World’s Most Liberal City” by Russell Shorto
Book Summary: “Oxford Handbook of Cities in World History” by Peter Clark
Book Summary: “Adapt: Why Success Always Starts with Failure” by Tim Harford
Book Summary: “Invisible Weapon: Telecommunications and International Politics 1851-1945” by Daniel Headrick
Book Summary: “The Evolution of Everything: How New Ideas Emerge” by Matt Ridley
Book Summary: “Ultrasociety: How 10,000 Years of War Made Humans the Greatest Cooperators…” by Peter Turchin
Book Summary: “Marriage and Civilization: How Monogamy Made Us Human” by William Tucker
Book Summary: “The Tyranny of Experts” by William Easterly
Book Summary: “Closing With the Enemy” by Michael D. Doubler
Book Summary: “The World Economy: A Millennial Perspective” by Angus Maddison
Book Summary: “The Birth of Plenty: How the Prosperity of the Modern World was Created” by William J. Bernstein
Book Summary: “How Paris Became Paris” by Joan DeJean
Book Summary: “Life’s Ratchet: How Molecular Machines Extract Order from Chaos” by Peter Hoffman
Book Summary: “Revolutions That Made the Earth” by Tim Lenton and Andrew Watson
Book Summary: “Plagues and Peoples” by William McNeill
Book Summary: “The Origin and Evolution of Cultures” by Robert Boyd and Peter Richerson
Book Summary: “Convergence: The Idea at the Heart of Science” by Peter Watson
Book Summary: “Origins: How Earth’s History Shaped Human History” by Lewis Dartnell
Book Summary: “Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World” by Daniel Epstein
Book Summary: “How Carriers Fought: Carrier Operations in WWII” by Lars Celander
Book Summary: “Nature’s Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West” by William Cronon
Book Summary: “The Son Also Rises: Surnames and the History of Social Mobility” by Gregory Clark
Book Summary: “Social Physics: How Social Networks Make Us Smarter” by Alex Pentland
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