More Readings

by Peter Saint-Andre

2006-01-15

About six weeks ago I listed a bunch of books I need to read. Since then I've read or skimmed Johnson's The Offshore Islanders, Landes's The Wealth and Poverty of Nations, Patterson's Freedom in the Making of Western Culture, McNeil's The Rise of the West, Cipolla's Guns, Sails, and Empires, Gellner's Plough, Sword and Book, Zelinsky's The Cultural Geography of the United States, and a few others besides. Right now I'm reading The Measure of Reality by Alfred W. Crosby, which is triggering yet another reading list:


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