Tag: History
Book Summary: “The Big Ratchet: How Humanity Thrives in the Face of Natural Crisis” by Ruth DeFries
Book Summary: “A Troublesome Inheritance: Genes, Race and Human History” by Nicholas Wade
Book Summary: “Going the Distance: Eurasian Trade and the Rise of the Business Corporation, 1400-1700” by Ron Harris
Book Summary: “Asia’s Next Giant: South Korea and Late Industrialization” by Alice Amsden
Book Summary: “Military Revolution and Political Change” by Brian Downing
Book Summary: “Ethnic America: A History” by Thomas Sowell
Article Summary: “Cotton, Slavery and the New History of Capitalism” by Olmstead and Rhode
Book Summary: “Big History and the Future of Humanity” by Fred Spier
Book Summary: “The Origins of Political Order” by Francis Fukuyama
Book Summary: “Lineages of the Absolutist State” by Perry Anderson
Article Summary: “A Nation of Immigrants: Assimilation and Economic Outcomes” by Abramitzky et al
Book Summary: “Empire: How Britain Made the Modern World” by Niall Ferguson
Article Summary: “The Out of Africa Hypothesis” by Ashraf & Galor
Book Summary: “Accidental Empires: How… Silicon Valley Make Their Millions” by Robert X Cringely
Book Summary: “Iron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern Europe, 1944-1956” by Anne Applebaum
Book Summary: “Hard Drive: Bill Gates and the Making of the Microsoft Empire” by Wallace and Erickson
Book Summary: “Cousins’ War: Religion, Politics, Civil War, and the Triumph of the Anglo-America” by Kevin Phillips
Book Summary: “Energy and Civilization: A History” by Vaclav Smil
Book Summary: “The Tragedy of Great Power Politics” by John Mearsheimer
Book Summary: “Understanding Human History” by Michael Hart
Book Summary: “Inventing Freedom: How the English… Made the Modern World” by Daniel Hannan
Book Summary: “Where Wizards Stay Up Late: Origins of the Internet” by Hafner and Lyon
Book Summary: “The Agricultural Systems of the World: An Evolutionary Approach” by David Grigg
Book Summary: “Food, Energy and Society” by David and Marcia Pimentel
Book Summary: “Horses at Work: Horses in Industrial America” by Ann Norton Greene
Book Summary: “Geopolitics in Late Antiquity” by Hyun Jin Kim
Book Summary: “A History of World Agriculture” by Mazoyer and Roudart
Book Summary: “Rulers, Religion, and Riches” by Jared Rubin
Book Summary: “The Camel and the Wheel” by Richard Bulliet
Book Summary: “A Culture of Growth” by Joel Mokyr
Book Summary: “The Fate of Rome: Climate, Disease and the End of an Empire” by Kyle Harper
Book Summary: “First Farmers” by David Bellwood
Book Summary: “The Age of Wood” by Roland Ennos
Book Summary: “First Migrants: Ancient Migrations in Global Perspective” by Peter Bellwood
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Book Summary: “The Gap: Science of What Separates Us from Animals” by Thomas Suddendorf
Book Summary: “The Story of the Human Body” by Daniel E. Lieberman
Book Summary: “People, Plants and Genes: the Story of Crops and Humanity” by Denis Murphy
The Ratchet of Technology, a site by Michael Magoon 