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April 5, 2021April 8, 2021 Michael Magoon

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

March 25, 2021 Michael Magoon

Book Summary: “The Camel and the Wheel” by Richard Bulliet

January 26, 2021April 15, 2021 Michael Magoon

Book Summary: “The Box: How the Shipping Container…” by Marc Levinson

May 5, 2020April 19, 2021 Michael Magoon

Book Summary: “Prime Movers of Globalization: The History of Diesel Engines and Gas Turbines” by Vaclav Smil

May 3, 2020April 15, 2021 Michael Magoon

Book Summary: “Power over Peoples: Technology, Environments and Western Imperialism…” by Daniel Headrick

May 2, 2020April 15, 2021 Michael Magoon

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

March 29, 2020April 15, 2021 Michael Magoon

Book Summary: “The Birth of Plenty: How the Prosperity of the Modern World was Created” by William J. Bernstein

March 28, 2020March 18, 2021 Michael Magoon

Book Summary: “How Paris Became Paris” by Joan DeJean

March 6, 2020March 18, 2021 Michael Magoon

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

January 1, 2020April 15, 2021 Michael Magoon

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

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