Tag: European History
Book Summary: “The Persistence of the Old Regime” by Arno Mayer
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 Arc of War” by Levy and Thompson
Book Summary: “Kicking Away the Ladder” by Ha-Joon Chang
Book Summary: “Guilds, Innovation and the European Economy, 1400-1800” by Epstein and Prak
Book Summary: “The Gifts of Athena: Historical Origins of the Knowledge Economy” by Joel Mokyr
Book Summary: “The Long Road to the Industrial Revolution” by Jan Luiten van Zanden
Book Summary: “Cities of Commerce” by Oscar Gelderblom
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: “Iron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern Europe, 1944-1956” by Anne Applebaum
Book Summary: “The Tragedy of Great Power Politics” by John Mearsheimer
Book Summary: “A History of World Agriculture” by Mazoyer and Roudart
Book Summary: “A Culture of Growth” by Joel Mokyr
Book Summary: “Bourgeois Equality: How Ideas, not Capital or Institutions, Enriched the World” by Deirdre McCloskey
Book Summary: “Ingenium: Five Machines that Changed the World” by Mark Denny
Book Summary: “End of the Old Order in Rural Europe” by Jerome Blum
Book Summary: “Power to the People: Energy in Europe over the Last Five Centuries” by Kander et al
Book Summary: “Human Accomplishment: The Pursuit of Excellence…” by Charles Murray
Book Summary: “The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil…” by Daniel Yergin
Book Summary: “When Information Came of Age: … Age or Reason 1700-1850” by Daniel Headrick
Book Summary: “How the Scots Invented the Modern World” by Arthur Herman
Book Summary: “The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers” by Paul Kennedy
Book Summary: “Conquests and Cultures” by Thomas Sowell
Book Summary: The Making of Europe… 950-1350” by Robert Bartlett
Book Summary: “Life in a Medieval City” by Joseph and Frances Gies
Book Summary: “The Medieval City” by Norman Pounds
Book Summary: “First Modern Economy… Dutch Economy 1500-1815” by Jan de Vries
Book Summary: “Amsterdam: A History of the World’s Most Liberal City” by Russell Shorto
Book Summary: “Oxford Handbook of Cities in World History” by Peter Clark
Book Summary: “Invisible Weapon: Telecommunications and International Politics 1851-1945” by Daniel Headrick
Book Summary: “The World Economy: A Millennial Perspective” by Angus Maddison
The Ratchet of Technology, a site by Michael Magoon 