Tag: History
Book Summary: “How Carriers Fought: Carrier Operations in WWII” by Lars Celander
Book Summary: “Nature’s Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West” by William Cronon
Book Summary “Escape from Rome: The Failure of Empire and the Road to Prosperity” by Walter Scheidel
Book Summary: “Tentacles of Progress: Technology Transfer in the Age of Imperialism 1850-1940” by Daniel R. Headrick
Book Summary: “Why the West Rules-for Now: The Patterns of History” by Ian Morris
Book Summary: “Violence and Social Orders” by North, Wallis and Weingast
Book Summary: “War: What is It Good for?” by Ian Morris
Article Summary: “The European Origins of Economic Development” by Easterly and Levine
Article Summary: “Was the Wealth of Nations Determined in 1000 BC? ” by many
Article Summary: “Was the Industrial Revolution Inevitable?” by Charles Jones
Article Summary: “How Deep are the Roots of Economic Development?” by Spolaore and Wacziarg
Book Summary: “Why Europe?: The Medieval Origins of Its Special Path” by Michael Mitteraur
Book Summary: “Unbound: How Eight Technologies Made Us Human” by Richard L. Currier
Book Summary: “Guns, Germs, and Steel” by Jared Diamond
Book Summary: “Foragers, Farmers and Fossil Fuels” by Ian Morris
The Ratchet of Technology, a site by Michael Magoon 