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October 29, 2021November 21, 2021 Michael Magoon

Book Summary: “The Company” by Micklethwait and Woolridge

October 26, 2021April 17, 2022 Michael Magoon

Book Summary: “The Tools of Empire: Technology and European Imperialism..” by Daniel Headrick

October 18, 2021November 24, 2021 Michael Magoon

Book Summary: “The Sinews of Power: War, Money and the English State, 1688-1783″ by John Brewer

October 14, 2021November 21, 2021 Michael Magoon

Book Summary: “The Persistence of the Old Regime” by Arno Mayer

September 24, 2021December 2, 2021 Michael Magoon

Book Summary: “The Institutional Revolution” by Douglass Allen

September 15, 2021December 2, 2021 Michael Magoon

Book Summary: “State, Economy and the Great Divergence” by Peer Vries

July 29, 2021December 2, 2021 Michael Magoon

Book Summary: “Escaping Poverty: The Origins of Modern Economic Growth” by Peer Vries

July 19, 2021December 2, 2021 Michael Magoon

Book Summary: “Energy and the English Industrial Revolution” by E. A. Wrigley

July 13, 2021December 2, 2021 Michael Magoon

Book Summary: “Knowledge and Competitive Advantage” by Johann Peter Murmann

July 8, 2021December 2, 2021 Michael Magoon

Book Summary: “Why Europe Grew Rich and Asia Did Not” by Prasannan Parthasarathi

June 30, 2021December 2, 2021 Michael Magoon

Book Summary: “The Great Divergence: China, Europe and the Making of the Modern World” by Kenneth Pomeranz

June 29, 2021December 2, 2021 Michael Magoon

Book Summary: “The Role of Transportation in the Industrial Revolution” by Rick Szostak

June 25, 2021December 2, 2021 Michael Magoon

Book Summary: “The Long Road to the Industrial Revolution” by Jan Luiten van Zanden

June 22, 2021December 2, 2021 Michael Magoon

Book Summary: “The British Industrial Revolution in Global Perspective” by Robert Allen

June 17, 2021November 21, 2021 Michael Magoon

Book Summary: “Going the Distance: Eurasian Trade and the Rise of the Business Corporation, 1400-1700” by Ron Harris

May 5, 2021December 2, 2021 Michael Magoon

Book Summary: “Empire: How Britain Made the Modern World” by Niall Ferguson

April 20, 2021December 2, 2021 Michael Magoon

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

April 13, 2021December 2, 2021 Michael Magoon

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

March 29, 2021December 2, 2021 Michael Magoon

Book Summary: “Rulers, Religion, and Riches” by Jared Rubin

January 25, 2021December 2, 2021 Michael Magoon

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

May 5, 2020November 21, 2021 Michael Magoon

Book Summary: “Prime Movers of Globalization: The History of Diesel Engines and Gas Turbines” by Vaclav Smil

May 2, 2020November 21, 2021 Michael Magoon

Book Summary: “Transforming the Twentieth Century” by Vaclav Smil

May 1, 2020December 2, 2021 Michael Magoon

Book Summary: “Tools for the Job: A Short History of Machine Tools” by LTC Rolt

April 30, 2020December 27, 2021 Michael Magoon

Book Summary: “The Enlightened Economy: An Economic History of Britain 1700-1850” by Joel Mokyr

April 29, 2020November 21, 2021 Michael Magoon

Book Summary: “How the Scots Invented the Modern World” by Arthur Herman

April 29, 2020November 21, 2021 Michael Magoon

Book Summary: “A Farewell to Alms: A Brief Economic History of the World” by Gregory Clark

April 23, 2020December 2, 2021 Michael Magoon

Book Summary: “Conquests and Cultures” by Thomas Sowell

April 23, 2020December 2, 2021 Michael Magoon

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

April 22, 2020December 2, 2021 Michael Magoon

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

April 1, 2020April 15, 2021 Michael Magoon

Article Summary: “England’s Divergence from China’s Yangzi Delta” by Brenner and Isett

March 30, 2020December 2, 2021 Michael Magoon

Book Summary: “The World Economy: A Millennial Perspective” by Angus Maddison

March 29, 2020December 2, 2021 Michael Magoon

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

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