Tag: British History
Book Summary: “The Tools of Empire: Technology and European Imperialism..” by Daniel Headrick
Book Summary: “The Sinews of Power: War, Money and the English State, 1688-1783″ by John Brewer
Book Summary: “The Persistence of the Old Regime” by Arno Mayer
Book Summary: “The Institutional Revolution” by Douglass Allen
Book Summary: “State, Economy and the Great Divergence” by Peer Vries
Book Summary: “Escaping Poverty: The Origins of Modern Economic Growth” by Peer Vries
Book Summary: “Energy and the English Industrial Revolution” by E. A. Wrigley
Book Summary: “Knowledge and Competitive Advantage” by Johann Peter Murmann
Book Summary: “Why Europe Grew Rich and Asia Did Not” by Prasannan Parthasarathi
Book Summary: “The Great Divergence: China, Europe and the Making of the Modern World” by Kenneth Pomeranz
Book Summary: “The Role of Transportation in the Industrial Revolution” by Rick Szostak
Book Summary: “The Long Road to the Industrial Revolution” by Jan Luiten van Zanden
Book Summary: “The British Industrial Revolution in Global Perspective” by Robert Allen
Book Summary: “Going the Distance: Eurasian Trade and the Rise of the Business Corporation, 1400-1700” by Ron Harris
Book Summary: “Empire: How Britain Made the Modern World” by Niall Ferguson
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: “Rulers, Religion, and Riches” by Jared Rubin
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: “Transforming the Twentieth Century” by Vaclav Smil
Book Summary: “Tools for the Job: A Short History of Machine Tools” by LTC Rolt
Book Summary: “The Enlightened Economy: An Economic History of Britain 1700-1850” by Joel Mokyr
Book Summary: “How the Scots Invented the Modern World” by Arthur Herman
Book Summary: “A Farewell to Alms: A Brief Economic History of the World” by Gregory Clark
Book Summary: “Conquests and Cultures” by Thomas Sowell
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
Article Summary: “England’s Divergence from China’s Yangzi Delta” by Brenner and Isett
Book Summary: “The World Economy: A Millennial Perspective” by Angus Maddison
The Ratchet of Technology, a site by Michael Magoon 