Tag: History
Book Summary: “Human Accomplishment: The Pursuit of Excellence…” by Charles Murray
Book Summary: “Energy Transitions” by Vaclav Smil
Book Summary: “Prime Movers of Globalization: The History of Diesel Engines and Gas Turbines” by Vaclav Smil
Book Summary: “Power over Peoples: Technology, Environments and Western Imperialism…” by Daniel Headrick
Book Summary: “Technology: A World History” by Daniel Headrick
Book Summary: “Transforming the Twentieth Century” by Vaclav Smil
Book Summary: “When Information Came of Age: … Age or Reason 1700-1850” by Daniel Headrick
Book Summary: “Tools for the Job: A Short History of Machine Tools” by LTC Rolt
Book Summary: “The Enlightened Economy: An Economic History of Britain 1700-1850” by Joel Mokyr
Book Summary: “Science and Technology in World History: An Introduction” by McClellan and Dorn
Book Summary: “How the Scots Invented the Modern World” by Arthur Herman
Book Summary: “A Farewell to Alms: A Brief Economic History of the World” by Gregory Clark
Book Summary: “Before the Dawn: Discovering the Lost History of Our Ancestors” by Nicholas Wade
Book Summary: “The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers” by Paul Kennedy
Book Summary: “The Long Summer: How Climate Changed Civilization” by Brian Fagan
Book Summary: “Migration and Culture” by Thomas Sowell
Book Summary: “Conquests and Cultures” by Thomas Sowell
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: “Replenishing the Earth: The Settler Revolution and the Rise of the Angloworld” by James Belich
Book Summary: The Making of Europe… 950-1350” by Robert Bartlett
Book Summary: “Why did Europe Conquer the World?” by Philip Hoffman
Book Summary: “Life in a Medieval City” by Joseph and Frances Gies
Book Summary: “The Medieval City” by Norman Pounds
Article Summary: “The Early Modern Great Divergence” by Broadberry and Gupta
Book Summary: “Nature’s Magic: Synergy in Evolution…” by Peter Corning
Book Summary: “First Modern Economy… Dutch Economy 1500-1815” by Jan de Vries
Book Summary: “Fifty Inventions that Shaped the Modern Economy” by Tim Harford
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: “Marriage and Civilization: How Monogamy Made Us Human” by William Tucker
Article Summary: “England’s Divergence from China’s Yangzi Delta” by Brenner and Isett
Book Summary: “Closing With the Enemy” by Michael D. Doubler
Article Summary: “Chinese Economic Performance in the Long Run” by Angus Maddison
Book Summary: “The World Economy: A Millennial Perspective” by Angus Maddison
Book Summary: “The Birth of Plenty: How the Prosperity of the Modern World was Created” by William J. Bernstein
Book Summary: “How Paris Became Paris” by Joan DeJean
The Ratchet of Technology, a site by Michael Magoon 