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Tag: Industrial Societies

October 28, 2021October 28, 2021 Michael Magoon

Book Summary: “Economic Systems of Foraging, Agricultural, and Industrial Societies” by Frederic Pryor

July 19, 2021December 2, 2021 Michael Magoon

Book Summary: “Energy and the English Industrial Revolution” by E. A. Wrigley

July 2, 2021December 2, 2021 Michael Magoon

Book Summary: “The Great Leveler: Violence and the History of Inequality” by Walter Scheidel

June 24, 2021November 21, 2021 Michael Magoon

Book Summary: “Networked Machinists: High-Technology Industries in Antebellum America” by David Meyer

June 22, 2021December 2, 2021 Michael Magoon

Book Summary: “The British Industrial Revolution in Global Perspective” by Robert Allen

April 5, 2021December 2, 2021 Michael Magoon

Book Summary: “Horses at Work: Horses in Industrial America” by Ann Norton Greene

March 22, 2021December 2, 2021 Michael Magoon

Book Summary: “A Culture of Growth” by Joel Mokyr

January 26, 2021December 2, 2021 Michael Magoon

Book Summary: “The Age of Wood” by Roland Ennos

April 2, 2020November 21, 2021 Michael Magoon

Book Summary: “Marriage and Civilization: How Monogamy Made Us Human” by William Tucker

March 11, 2020November 21, 2021 Michael Magoon

Course Summary: “Principles of Human Ecology” by Peter Richerson et al

March 6, 2020December 2, 2021 Michael Magoon

Book Summary: “Nature’s Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West” by William Cronon

February 3, 2020December 2, 2021 Michael Magoon

Book Summary: “Ecological-Evolutionary Theory” by Gerhard Lenski

January 13, 2020December 2, 2021 Michael Magoon

Book Summary: “Unbound: How Eight Technologies Made Us Human” by Richard L. Currier

January 6, 2020December 2, 2021 Michael Magoon

Book Summary: “Foragers, Farmers and Fossil Fuels” by Ian Morris

January 1, 2020November 21, 2021 Michael Magoon

Book Summary: “Creating the Twentieth Century” by Vaclav Smil

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