
Tag: Early Modern History


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: “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
