July 19, 2021 Michael Magoon

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

June 25, 2021 Michael Magoon

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

June 23, 2021 Michael Magoon

Book Summary: “Cities of Commerce” by Oscar Gelderblom

June 22, 2021 Michael Magoon

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

June 21, 2021 Michael Magoon

Book Summary: “Islam, Authoritarianism and Underdevelopment” by Ahmet Kuru

June 17, 2021 Michael Magoon

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

June 3, 2021 Michael Magoon

Book Summary: “Military Revolution and Political Change” by Brian Downing

May 21, 2021 Michael Magoon

Book Summary: “The Origins of Political Order” by Francis Fukuyama

May 18, 2021May 18, 2021 Michael Magoon

Book Summary: “Lineages of the Absolutist State” by Perry Anderson

May 5, 2021 Michael Magoon

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

April 20, 2021 Michael Magoon

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

April 13, 2021April 15, 2021 Michael Magoon

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

April 8, 2021April 11, 2021 Michael Magoon

Book Summary: “The Agricultural Systems of the World: An Evolutionary Approach” by David Grigg

March 29, 2021June 21, 2021 Michael Magoon

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

January 25, 2021April 8, 2021 Michael Magoon

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

May 8, 2020March 18, 2021 Michael Magoon

Book Summary: “End of the Old Order in Rural Europe” by Jerome Blum

May 2, 2020April 8, 2021 Michael Magoon

Book Summary: “When Information Came of Age: … Age or Reason 1700-1850” by Daniel Headrick

April 30, 2020July 1, 2021 Michael Magoon

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

April 29, 2020April 15, 2021 Michael Magoon

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

April 25, 2020April 16, 2021 Michael Magoon

Book Summary: “The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers” by Paul Kennedy

April 23, 2020March 18, 2021 Michael Magoon

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

April 22, 2020April 15, 2021 Michael Magoon

Book Summary: “Why Europe?: The Rise of the West…” by Jack Goldstone

April 21, 2020April 15, 2021 Michael Magoon

Book Summary: “Why did Europe Conquer the World?” by Philip Hoffman

April 13, 2020April 15, 2021 Michael Magoon

Article Summary: “The Early Modern Great Divergence” by Broadberry and Gupta

April 12, 2020July 1, 2021 Michael Magoon

Book Summary: “First Modern Economy… Dutch Economy 1500-1815” by Jan de Vries

April 1, 2020April 15, 2021 Michael Magoon

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

March 29, 2020July 1, 2021 Michael Magoon

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

March 28, 2020March 18, 2021 Michael Magoon

Book Summary: “How Paris Became Paris” by Joan DeJean