Future Readings
2005-11-27
One of the problems with reading large tomes of history and social science is that every book you pick up leads you to several more. Herewith a rather large number of books that have recently bubbled up onto my reading list:
- C. Cipolla, Guns, Sails, and Empires: Technological Innovation and the Early Phases of European Expansionism
- D. Landes, The Wealth and Poverty of Nations: Why Some Are So Rich and Some So Poor
- E.L. Jones, The European Miracle: Environments, Economics, and Geopolitics in the History of Europe and Asia
- W. McNeill, The Rise of the West
- O. Patterson, Freedom in the Making of Western Culture
- P. Rahe, Republics, Ancient and Modern
- B. Bachrach, Merovingian Military Organization
- R. Dales, The Intellectual Life of Western Europe in the Middle Ages
- F. Braudel, Civilization and Capitalism, 15th-18th Century: The Perspective of the World
- S. Eisenstadt, Japanese Civilization: A Comparative View
- G. Woodcock, The Marvellous Century: Archaic Man and the Awakening of Reason
- D. Howell, The Edge of Now: New Questions for Democracy in the Network Age
- T. Sowell, Conquests and Cultures: An International History
- T. Sowell, Migrations and Cultures: A World View
- T. Sowell, Race and Culture: A World View
- P. Johnson, The Offshore Islanders
- N. Cantor, Imagining the Law: Common Law and the Foundations of the American Legal System
- A. Zamoyski, Holy Madness: Romantics, Patriots, and Revolutionaries, 1776-1871
- M. Rediker, The Many-Headed Hydra: Sailors, Slaves, Commoners, and the Hidden History of the Revolutionary Atlantic
- D. Gress, From Plato to NATO: The Idea of the West and Its Opponents
- Harrison and Huntington, Culture Matters: How Values Shape Human Progress
- J. Kotkin, Tribes: How Race, Religion and Identity Determine Success in the New Global Economy
- G. Das, India Unbound: The Social and Economic Revolution from Independence to the Global Information Age
- N. van Hear, New Diasporas: The Mass Exodus, Dispersal, and Regrouping of Communities
- G. Wills, Inventing America: Jefferson's Declaration of Independence
- W. Mean, Special Providence: American Foreign Policy and How It Changed the World
- J. Jacobs, Systems of Survival: A Dialogue on the Moral Foundations of Commerce and Politics
- J. Jacobs, Cities and the Wealth of Nations: Principles of Economic Life
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