Tag: Early Modern History
Book Summary: “The Pursuit of Power” by William McNeill
Book Summary: “War in World History (Vol 2)” by Morillo, Black and Lococo
Book Summary: “War in World History (Vol 1)” by Morillo, Black and Lococo
Book Summary: “A History of Warfare” by John Keegan
Book Summary: “The Institutional Revolution” by Douglass Allen
Book Summary: “The Arc of War” by Levy and Thompson
Book Summary: “State, Economy and the Great Divergence” by Peer Vries
Book Summary: “Guilds, Innovation and the European Economy, 1400-1800” by Epstein and Prak
Book Summary: “Energy and the English Industrial Revolution” by E. A. Wrigley
Book Summary: “The Long Road to the Industrial Revolution” by Jan Luiten van Zanden
Book Summary: “Cities of Commerce” by Oscar Gelderblom
Book Summary: “The British Industrial Revolution in Global Perspective” by Robert Allen
Book Summary: “Islam, Authoritarianism and Underdevelopment” by Ahmet Kuru
Book Summary: “Going the Distance: Eurasian Trade and the Rise of the Business Corporation, 1400-1700” by Ron Harris
Book Summary: “Military Revolution and Political Change” by Brian Downing
Book Summary: “The Origins of Political Order” by Francis Fukuyama
Book Summary: “Lineages of the Absolutist State” by Perry Anderson
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: “The Agricultural Systems of the World: An Evolutionary Approach” by David Grigg
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: “End of the Old Order in Rural Europe” by Jerome Blum
Book Summary: “When Information Came of Age: … Age or Reason 1700-1850” by Daniel Headrick
Book Summary: “The Enlightened Economy: An Economic History of Britain 1700-1850” by Joel Mokyr
Book Summary: “A Farewell to Alms: A Brief Economic History of the World” by Gregory Clark
Book Summary: “The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers” by Paul Kennedy
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: “Why did Europe Conquer the World?” by Philip Hoffman
Article Summary: “The Early Modern Great Divergence” by Broadberry and Gupta
Book Summary: “First Modern Economy… Dutch Economy 1500-1815” by Jan de Vries
Article Summary: “England’s Divergence from China’s Yangzi Delta” by Brenner and Isett
Book Summary: “The Birth of Plenty: How the Prosperity of the Modern World was Created” by William J. Bernstein
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