Reading
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Rise and Fall of Civilisations
My current reading project is to put a dent in The Rise and Fall of Civilisations: A Reader Course by Tanner Greer. This is not yet the full list, but I will add a few more books as I get through them.
- Robert J. Gordon: The Rise and Fall of American Growth
- Azar Gat: War in Human Civilization
- Francis Fukuyama: Political Order and Political Decay
- Francis Fukuyama: The Origins of Political Order
- Francis Spufford: Red Plenty
- Hendrick Spruyt : The World Imagined
- James C. Scott: Seeing Like a State
- Joe Studwell: How Asia Works
- Joel Mokyr: The Lever of Riches
- Joseph Tainter: The Collapse of Complex Societies
- Machiavelli: Discourses on Livy
- Mancur Olson: The Rise and Decline of Nations
- Michael Mann: The Sources of Social Power Volume 1
- Michael Mann: The Sources of Social Power Volume 2
- Paul Kennedy: The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers
- Peer Vries: State, Economy and the Great Divergence
- Ronald Findlay and Kevin O'Rouke: Power and Plenty
- Thomas Ertman: Birth of the Leviathan
Interintellect - Reading the Greats
In 2021 I took part in the Interintellect, Reading the Greats salon series. This monthly book club took us on a tour of some of the most well known works of the western canon.
- (Anon): Beowulf
- Austen: Pride and Prejudice
- Brecht: Mother Courage and Her Children
- Burke: Reflections on the Revolution in France
- Chaucer: The Canterbury Tales
- Dante: The Divine Comedy
- Descartes: Meditations on First Philosophy
- Homer: Iliad
- Huxley: Brave New World
- Machiavelli: The Prince
- Orwell: 1984
- Plato: The Last Days of Socrates
- Shelly: Frankenstein
- Sophocles: Antigone
- Woolf: Mrs Dalloway
