Bibliography
[ADT} |
Angus Deaton The Great Escape,
Princeton Univ. Press, 2013. Subtitled: health,
wealth, and the origins of inequality. |
[GGS] |
Jared Diamond Guns, Germs, and
Steel, Norton, 1997-2005. Subtitled: The Fates
of Human Societies. |
[COLL] |
Jared Diamond Collapse, Viking,
2005. Subtitled: How Societies Choose to Fail or
Succeed.
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[FERG] |
Niall Ferguson, Civilization: The
West and the Rest, Penguin, 2011.
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[EG] | Edward Gibbon, The Decline and
Fall of the Roman Empire, first published in 1788.Note: I use the 1978 reprint of the 1910 Everyman's
Library (Dutton: New York) unabridged edition with comments by Oliphant Smeaton.
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[KIRS] |
Jonathan Kirsch, God Against Gods,
Viking, 2004. Subtitled: The History of War between
Monotheism and Polytheism.
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[MORR] |
Ian Morris Why the West Rules -
For Now, Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 2010. Subtitled:
The Patterns of History and what they Reveal about the Future.
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[PNKR] |
Steven Pinker The Better Angels
of our Nature, Viking, 2011. Subtitled: Why
Violence has Declined.
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[WRT] |
Robert Wright, The Evolution of
God, Little, Brown, New York, 2009.
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