Tag: History
Book Summary: “Special Providence: American Foreign Policy and How It Changed the World” by Walter Russell Mead
Book Summary: “States and Power in Africa” by Jeffrey Herbst
Book Summary: “Wealth, Poverty and Politics” by Thomas Sowell
Book Summary: “The Economic Laws of Scientific Research” by Terence Kealey
Book Summary: “How Rich Countries Got Rich” by Eric S. Reinert
Book Summary: “More From Less” by Andrew McAfee
Book Summary: “The Company” by Micklethwait and Woolridge
Book Summary: “Economic Systems of Foraging, Agricultural, and Industrial Societies” by Frederic Pryor
Book Summary:“Leonardo to the Internet” by Thomas Misa
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: “Catching Fire: How Cooking Made Us Human” by Richard Wrangham
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: “An Edible History of Humanity” by Tom Standage
Book Summary: “Tamed: Ten Species that Changed Our World” by Alice Roberts
Book Summary: “The Plough that Broke the Steppes” by David Moon
Book Summary: “The Arc of War” by Levy and Thompson
Book Summary: “State, Economy and the Great Divergence” by Peer Vries
Book Summary: “Kicking Away the Ladder” by Ha-Joon Chang
Book Summary: “The Gifts of Athena: Historical Origins of the Knowledge Economy” by Joel Mokyr
Book Summary: “The Fifth Beginning: What Six Million Years of Human History Can Tell Us” by Robert Kelly
Book Summary: “Energy and the English Industrial Revolution” by E. A. Wrigley
Book Summary: “Epic of Evolution: Seven Ages of the Cosmos” by Eric Chaisson
Book Summary: “Knowledge and Competitive Advantage” by Johann Peter Murmann
Book Summary: “Economic Transformations: General Purpose Technologies and Long Term Economic Growth” by Lipsey, Carlaw and Bekar
Book Summary: “Why Europe Grew Rich and Asia Did Not” by Prasannan Parthasarathi
Book Summary: “Who We Are and How We Got Here” by David Reich
Book Summary: “The Dynamics of Ancient Empires” by Morris and Scheidel
Book Summary: “Rome and China: Comparative Perspectives on Ancient World Empires” by Walter Scheidel
Book Summary: “The Great Leveler: Violence and the History of Inequality” by Walter Scheidel
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: “Networked Machinists: High-Technology Industries in Antebellum America” by David Meyer
Book Summary: “Cities of Commerce” by Oscar Gelderblom
The Ratchet of Technology, a site by Michael Magoon 