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On this page I will like to suggest reading on the topic of the genesis of the industrial revolution.

Books:

John Adams, Revolutionary writings.  1763.

Sean Patrick Adams, Old Dominion, Industrial Commonwealth: Coal, Politics, and Economy in Antebellum America. Baltimore: John Hopkins University Press, 2004.

Johannes Althusius, Politica. 1614.

Thomas Aquinas, The Summa Theologica. (Parr 1. vol.4. “The treatise on Man”), 1256.

Eric H. Ash, Power, Knowledge and Expertise in Elisabethan England. John Hopkins University Press, 2004.

William Ashley, An Introduction to English Economic History and Theory: Part 2. The End of the Middle Ages. Fourth edition, 1906. (1893).  

T.S. Ashton, The Industrial Revolution. London: Oxford University Press, 1969.

Francis Bacon, The Advancement of Learning. 1605.  (Slow download).

Francis Bacon, Novum Organum, 1620.

Walter Bagehot, The Postulates of English Political Economy. 1885.

Frédéric Bastiat, Economic Harmonies. 1850. (Might be slow in downloading).

Frédéric Bastiat, Selected Essays on Political Economy. 1884.

Robert C. Bannister, Sociology and Scientism: The American Quest for Objetivity, 1880-1940. University of North Carolina Press, 1987.

Alessandro Barberg, The Day of the Barbarians: The Battle That Led to the Fall of the Roman Empire. Walker and Co, 2007.

Robert Bartlett, The Making of Europe, 950-1350. Princeton University Press, 1994.

Beowulf, (author unknown), 750 AD.

Maxine Berg, The Age of Manufactures, 1700-1820: Industry, Innovation and Work in Britain. Routledge, 2 edition, 1994.

Harold J. Berman, Laws and Revolution. The Formation of the Western Legal Traditíon. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1983.

Louis Birnham, Red dawn at Lexington. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1986.

Raymond Bloch, The ancient civilization of the Etruscans. New York: Cowles Book, 1969.

Anicius M. S. Boethius, The Consolation of Philosophy. 520 AD.

P. N. Bose, Hindoo Civilization during British Rule. 4 vol. London, 1894-1896.

C.R. Boxer, The Dutch Seaborne Empire. Penguin, 1991. (1965).

Ernle Bradford, Thermopylae: The Battle for the West. Da Capo Press, 2004.

Jacob Bronowski and Bruce Mazlish, Western Intellectual Tradition: From Leonardo to Hegel. Harper Perennial, 1962.

Nicholas Brooks, Communities and Warfare, 700-1400. Hambledon & London, 2003.

John K. Brown, The Baldwin Locomotive Works, 1831-1915: A Study in American Industrial Practice. 1995.

Gene Brucker, Florence: The Golden Age 1138-1737. University of California Press, 1998.

Jacob Burckhardt, Judgments on History and Historians. (These essays are based on JB’s lecture notes at the University of Basel in the period 1865-1885).

Jacob Burckhardt, The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy. Penguin Classics, 1990. (Originally published in 1860).

Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France. 1790. (Download slowly).

Thomas S. Burns, A History of the Ostrogoths. Indiana University Press, 1981.

J.B. Bury, Invasion of Europe by the Barbarians. W.W. Norton & Co. 2000. (1928).

J. B. Bury, A History of the Late Roman Empire from Arcadius to Irene. Vol. 1.  (Vol.2.) , 1889.  

Fritjof Capra, The Science of Leonardo: Inside the Mind of the Great Genius of the Renaissance. Doubleday, 2007.

Donald Cardwell, Wheels, Clocks and Rockets: A History of Technology. W.W. Norton, 2001.

Karen Eva Carr, Vandals to Visigoths: Rural Settlement Pattern in Early Medieval Spain. University of Michigan Press, 2002.

Marie-Dominique Chenu, Aquinas and his role in theology. Michael Glazier Books, 2002.

Marie-Dominique Chenu, Nature, Man, and Society in the Twelfth Century: Essays on New Theological Perspectives in the Latin West. University of Chicago, 1983.

Neil Christie, The Lombards: The Ancient Longobards. Wiley-Blackwell, New Edition, 1999.

Marshall Clagett, Science of Mechanics in the Middle Ages. University of Wisconsin, 1959.

Marshall Clagett, Greek Science in Antiquity. Dover Publications, 2002.

Gregory Clark, A Farwell to Alms: A Brief Economic History of the World. Princeton University Press, 2007.

Henry C. Clark, Commerce, Culture and Liberty: Readings on Capitalism before Adam Smith.  Indianapolis, Liberty Fund, 2003.

Alan B. Cobban, The Medieval Universities: Their Development and Organization. London: Methuen, 1975.

Marcia L. Colish, Medieval Foundations of the Western Intellectual Tradition, 400-1400. Yale University Press, 1997.

Julian S. Corbett, Principles of Maritime Strategy. Dover Publications, 2004.

Ruth Schwart Cowan, A Social History of American Technology. Oxford University Press, 1997.

A.C. Crombie, Augustine to Galileo: The History of Science AD 400-1650. London, 1952.

Richard Cumberland, A Treatise of the Law of Nature. 1672.

Richard C. Dales, The Intellectual Life of Western Europe in the Middle Ages. Washington, DC.: University Press of America, 1980.

Richard C. Dales, The Scientific Achievement of the Middle Ages. University of Pennsylvania Press, 1973.

Hilda Roderick Ellis Davidson, The Lost Beliefs in Northern Europe. Routledge, 1993.

Hilda Roderick Ellis Davidson, Myths and Symbols in Pagan Europe: Early Scandinavian and Celtic Religions. Syracuse University Press, 1988.

R.R. Davies, The First British Empire: Power and Identities in the British Isles, 1093-1343. Oxford University Press, 2002.

Giorgio de Santillana, The Origins of Scientific Thought: From Anaximander to Proclus, 600 B.C. to A.D. 500. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1961.

Jan de Vries, The First Modern Economy: Success, Failure, and Perseverance of the Dutch Economy, 1500-1815. Cambridge University Press, 1997.

Jan de Vries, The Economy of Europe in an Age of Crisis, 1600-1750. Cambridge University Press, 1976.

Hans Delbrück, The Barbarian invasions: History of the art of War. University of Nebraska Press, 1990.

Derek Price, Science Since Babylon. New Haven, 1961.

H.W. Dickinson & H.P. Vowles, James Watt and the Industrial Revolution. London: Longmans Green & Company, 1943.

Philip Dixon, Barbarian Europe: The Making of the Past. Salem House, 1976.

Charles Dreckmeier, Kingship and Community in Early India. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1962.

George Duby, France in the Middle Ages 987-1460: From Hugh Capet to Joan of Arc. Wiley-Blackwell, 1993.

George Duby, The Early Growth of the European Economy. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1974.

Wladyslaw Duczko, Viking Rus: Studies on the Presence of Scandinavians in Eastern Europe. Leiden, Netherland: Brill, 2004.

Pierre Duhem, To Save the Phenomena: An Essay on the Idea of Physical Theory from Plato to Galileo. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1969. (1908).

Pierre Duhem, Aim and Structure of Physical Theory. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1991.

S.C. Easton, Roger Bacon and His Search for a Universal Science. Oxford and New York, 1952.

J.H. Elliot, Empires of the Atlantic World: Britain and Spain in America 1492-1830. Yale University Press, 2007.

J.H. Elliott, The Revolt of the Catalans: A Study of the Decline of Spain, 1598-1640. Cambridge University Press, New edition, 1984.

Lynne Elliott, Medieval Towns, Trade and Travels. Crabtree Publishing Company, 2004.

Mark Elvin, The Pattern of the Chinese Past. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1973.

Thomas Ertman, Birth of the Leviathan: Building States and Regimes in Medieval and Early Modern Europe. Cambridge University Press, 1997.

Adam Ferguson, An Essay on the History of Civil Society. 1767.

Niall Ferguson, Empire: The Rise and Demise of the British World Order and the Lessons for Global Power. Basic Books, 2004.

John Ferling, Almost a miracle: The American Victory in the war of independence. Oxford University Press, 2007.

Sabina Flanagan, Hildegard of Bingen: A Visionary Life. Routledge, 1998.

Tenney Frank, Roman Imperialism. Batoche Books, Kitchener, 2003. (1914).

Tenney Frank, An Economic History of Rome. 2nd revised edition. Batoche Books, Kitchener, 2004. (1927).

Henri Frankfort, Ancient Egyptian Religion: An Interpretation. New York: Harper Torchbooks, 1961. (1948).

Henri Frankfort, Before Philosophy: The intellectual advanture of ancient man. Penguin, 1946.

Henry George, Progress and Poverty. 1879. (Might download slowly).

Jacques Gernet, A History of Chinese Civilization. Cambridge University Press, 1996.

Alexander Gerschenkron, Economic Backwardness in Historical Perspective: A Book of Essays. Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1962.

Peter Geyl, The Revolt of the Netherlands 1555-1609. New York: Barnes & Noble, 1966.

Edward Gibbon, The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. Vol. 1-3. Everyman’s Library, 1993.  

Otto Gierke, Political Theories of the Middle Ages. Cambridge at the University Press, 1913.

Joseph Gies & Frances Gies, Cathedral, Forge and Waterwheel: Technology and Intention in the Middle Ages. Harper Perennial, 1995.

Etienne Gilson, The Unity of Philosophical Experience. Ignatius Press, 1999.

Etienne Gilsom, The Christian Philosophy of St. Thomas Aquinas. New edition. University of Notre Dame Press, 1994.

Etienne Gilson, The Spirit of Mediaeval Philosophy. University of Notre Dame Press, 1991.

Jean Gimpel, Medieval Machine: The Industrial Revolution in the Middle Ages. London, 1977.

Edward Grant, A History of Natural Philosophy: From the Ancient World to the Nineteenth Century. Cambridge University Press, 2007.

Edward Grant, The Foundation of Science in the Middle Ages. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996.

Michael Greenberg, British Trade and the Opening of China, 1800-1842. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1969. (1951).

Avner Grief, Institutions and the path to economic modernity: Lessons from Medieval trade. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006.

Hugo Grotius, The Rights of War and Peace. 1625.

Francios Guizot, The History of the Origins of Representative Government in Europe. Liberty Fund, 2002. (1821-1822).

Oscar Halecki, Borderlands of Western Civilization. New York: Ronald, 1952.

T.L. Hankins, Science and the Enlightenment. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1985.

Victor David Hanson, Ripples of Battle: How Wars of the Past Still Determine How We Fight, How We Live and How We Think. Anchor Books, 2004.

Victor David Hanson, Carnage and Culture: Landmark Battles in the Rise of Western Power. Anchor, 2002.

Victor David Hanson, Why The West Has Won: Carnage and Culture from Salamis to Vietnam. Faber & Faber, 2001.

Victor David Hanson, The Western Way of War: Infantry Battle in Classic Greece. University of California Press, 2000.

Grant Hardy, The Establishment of the Han Empire and Imperial China. Greenwood Press, 2005.

R.M. Hartwell, The Industrial Revolution and Economic Growth. London: Methuen, 1971.

Charles Homer Haskins, The Renaissance of the Twelfth Century. Cambridge, Mass, 1927.

Charles Homer Haskins, Studies in the History of Medival Science. Cambridge, Mass, 1924.

Friedrich A. Hayek, Individualism and Economic Order. University of Chicago Press, 1996.

Friedrich A. Hayek, The Fatal Conceit: The Errors of Socialism. University of Chicago Press, 1991. (1988).

Friedrich A. Hayek, The Road to Serfdom. University of Chicago Press, 1994 . (1944).

John Haywood, Historical Atlas of the Vikings. Penguin, 1995.

Peter Heather, The Fall of the Roman Empire: A New History of Rome and the Barbarians. Oxford University Press, 2007.

Peter Heather, The Goths. Wiley-Blackwell, 1998.

Peter Heather, The Goths in the Fourth Century. Liverpool University Press, 1991.

David Herlihy, Medieval and Renaissance Pistoia: The Social History of an Italian Town, 1200-1430. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1967.

John Henry, The Scientific Revolution and the Origins of Modern Science. Palgrave Macmillan, second edition, 2002.

Henry Higgs, The Physiocrats: Six Lectures on the French Économistes of the 18th Century. Batoche Books, Kitchener, 2001. (1897).

Patrice Higonnet, David S. Landes and Henry Rosovsky (eds.), Favorites of Fortune: Technology, Growth, and Economic Development since the Industrial Revolution. Cambridge, MA, 1991.

John A. Hobson, Imperialism: A Study. 1902.

Kung-Chuan Hsiao, A History of Chinese Political Thought, vol.1.: From the Beginning to the Sixth Century AD. Princeton, 1979.

E.R. Hughes, Chinese Philosophy in Classic Times. Everyman, London, 1942.

Victoria Tin-bor Hui, War and State Formation in Ancient China and Early Modern Europe. Cambridge University Press, 2005.

Wilhelm von Humbolt, The Sphere and Duty of Government. 1792.

David Hume, Enquires Concerning the Human Understanding and Concerning the Principle of Moral.  1777.

David Hume, The Philosophical Works of David Hume, vol.3. (Essays on Moral, Political and Literacy) 1777.

Edward S. Hunt, The Medieval Super-Companies. A Study of the Peruzzi Company of Florence. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997. (1994).

Ronald Hutton, The Pagan Religions of the Ancient British Isles: Their Nature and Legacy. Wiley-Blackwell , 1993.

Margaret Jacob and Larry Stewart, Practical Matter: Newton’s Science in the Service of Industry and Empire, 1687-1851. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2004.

Margaret Jacob, Scientific Culture and the Making of the Industrial West. New York: Oxford University Press, 1997.

Edward James, The Franks. Wiley-Blackwell, New Edition, 1991.

Georg Jellinek, The Declaration of the Rights of Man and of Citizens: A Contribution to Modern Constitutional History. 1895.

Edward Jenks, Laws and Politics in the Middle Ages. London, 1898.

Paul Johnson, A History of the American People. Harper Perennial, 1999.

Paul Johnson, The Birth of the Modern: World Society 1815-1830. Harper Perennial, 1992.

Paul Johnson, History of Christianity. Touchstone, 1979.

Gwyn Jones, A History of the Vikings. second edition. Oxford University Press, 2001. (1973).

J.R. Jones, Britain and the World, 1649-1815. Fontana, 198o.

Donald Kagan, The Peloponnesian War. Penguin, 2004.

Donald Kagan, Pericles of Athens and the Birth of Democracy. Free Press, 1998.

Donald Kagan, The Fall of the Athenian Empire. Cornell University Press, 1991.

Paul Kennedy, The Rise and Fall of British Naval Mastery. London: The Ashfield Press, 1983.

Dale Kent, Cosimo de Medici and the Florentine Renaissance: The Patron’s Oeuvre. Yale University Press, 2000.

Russell Kirk, The American Cause. Intercollegiate Studies Institute, 2002.

Russell Kirk, Edmund Burke: A Genius Reconsidered. Intercollegiate Studies Institute, 1997.

Russell Kirk, America’s British Culture. Transaction Publishers, 1993.

Raymond Klibansky, The Continuity of the Platonic Tradition During the Middle Ages. London, 1939.

David Knowles, The Evolution of Medieval Thought. New York: Vintage, 1964.

Michael Kulikowski, Rome’s Gothic Wars: From the Third Century to Alaric. Cambridge University Press, 2006.

David S. Landes, The Wealth and Poverty of Nations: Why Some Are So Rich and Some Are So Poor.  W.W. Norton & Co, 1999.

David S. Landes, The Unbound Prometheus. Cambridge University Press, 1969.

David Leeming, From Olympus to Camelot: The World of European Mythology. Oxford University Press, 2003.

Jacques LeGoff, Intellectuals in the Middle Ages. New York: Blackwell, 1992.

Elmer Eugene Lewis, Masterworks of Technology: The Story of Creatíve Engineering, Architecture and Design. Prometheus Books, 2004.

Ewart Lewis, Medieval Political Ideas. Part I-II. Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1954.

Mark Edward Lewis, The Early Chinese Empires: Qin and Han. Belknap Press, Harvard University, 2007.

David C. Lindberg, The Beginnings of Western Science: The European Scientific Tradition in Philosophical, Religious, and Institutional Context, 600 B.C. to A.D. 1450. The University of Chicago Press, 1992.

David C. Lindberg and Robert S. Westman (eds.) Reappraisals of the Scientific Revolution. Cambridge University Press, 1990.

Richard G. Lipsey, Kenneth I. Carlaw and Clifford T. Bekar, Economic transformations: General Purpose, Technologies and Long Term Economic Growth.  Oxford University Press, 2005.

Friedrich List, The National System of Political Economy. 1841.

John Locke, The Two Treatises of Civil Government. 1689.

Robert S. Lopez, The Commercial Revolution of the Middle Ages, 950-1350. Cambridge University Press, 1976.

Henry R. Lyon, The Governance of Anglo-Saxon England 500-1087. Oxford University Press, 1984.

Simon Macdowall and Howard Gerrard, Adrianople AD 378: The Goths crush Rome’s legions. Osprey Publishing, 2oo1.

Ramsay Macmullen, Christianity and Paganism in the Fourth to Eight Centuries. Yale University Press, New Edition, 1999.

Ramsay Macmullen, Paganism and Christianity 100-425 CE. August Forest Publishers, 1992.

Ramsay Macmullen, Corruption and the Decline of Rome. Yale University Press, 1990.

Ramsay Macmullen, Christianization of the Roman Empire AD 100-400. Yale University Press, 1984.

Ramsay Macmullen, Paganism in the Roman Empire. Yale University Press, 1983.

Ramsay Macmullen, Roman social relations: 50 B.C. to 284 AD. Yale University Press, New edition, 1981.

A. T. Mahan, The Influence of Seapower upon History 1660-1783. Dover Publications, 1987.

Henry Sumner Maine, The early history of institutions.  1874.

Thomas Robert Malthus, An Essay on the Principle of Population. Penguin Books, 1979. (1830).

John Marendon, Early Medieval Philosophy (480-1150). Routledge, Second Edition, 1988.

T.M. Marshall, Class, Citizenship and Social Devekopment. New York: Anchor, 1964.

Armand Maurer, The Philosophy of William of Ockham: In the light of Its Principles. Pontifical Inst of Medieval, 1999.

Michael McCormick, Origins of the European Economy: Communications and Commerce AD 300-900. Cambridge University Press, 2002.

Rosamond McKitterick (ed.) The Early Middle Ages: Europe 400-1000. Oxford University Press, 2001.

Brian E. McKnight, Law and Order in Sung China. Cambridge University Press, 1992.

Perry Miller, Errand into the Wilderness. New York: Harper, 1956.

John Milton, The Ready and Easy Way to Establish a Free Commonwealth. 1660.

Harry A. Miskimin, The Economy of Early Renaissance Europe, 1300-1460. Cambridge, 1981.

Thomas J. Misa, Leonardo to the Internet: Technology and Culture from the Renaissance to the Present. The John Hopkins University, 2004.

Joel Mokyr, The gift of Athena: Historical Origins of the Knowledge Economy. Princeton University Press, 2004.

Joel Mokyr, The Lever of Riches: Technological creativity and Economic Progress. Oxford University Press, 1992.

Joel Mokyr, Industrialization in the Low Countries, 1760-1970. New Haven, 1976.

Charles-Louis de Secondat, baron de Montesquieu, Considerations on the Causes of the Greatness of the Romans and their Decline. 1734.

John Moody, The Masters of Capital: A Chronicle of Wall-Street. Yale University Press, 1921.

R.I. Moore, The First European Revolution, 970-1215. Wiley-Blackwell, 2000.

John B. Morrall, Political Thought in Medieval Times. London, 1958.

Adrian Murdoch, Rome’s Greatest Defeat: Massacre in the Teutoburg Forrest. Sutton Publishing, 2006.

Joseph Needham, Science in Traditional China: A Comparative Perspective. Harvard University Press, 1981.

Douglass C. North, Understanding the Process of Economic Change. Revisted edition. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2005.

Douglass C. North, Structure and Change in Economic History. W.W. Norton & Co. 1981.

Douglass C. North and Robert Paul Thomas, The Rise of the Western World: A New Economic History. Cambridge University press, New edition, 1976.

A.T. Olmstead, History of the Persian Empire. University of Chicago Press, 1959.

J. H. Parry, The Spanish Seaborne Empire. University of California, 1990 (1966).

Talcott Parsons, The Evolution of Societies. Prentice Hall, 1977.

P. L. Payne, British Entrepreneurship in the Nineteenth Century. New York: Macmillan, 1974.

Peter C. Perdue, China Marches West: The Qing Conquest of Central Eurasia. Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press, 2005.

Lawrence A. Peskin, Manufacturing Revolution: The Intellectual Origins of Early American Industry. Baltimore: John Hopkins University Press, 2003.

Henri Pirenne, Medieval Cities: Their Origins and the Revival of Trade. Princeton Univeristy Press, 1969.

Albert Frederick Pollard, The History of England: A Study of Political Evolution.

David S. Potter,  The Roman Empire at Bay: AD 180-395. Routledge, 2004.

J.L. Price, The Dutch Republic in the Seventeenth Century. Palgrave Macmillan, 1998.

Samuel Pufendorf, Of the Nature and Qualification of Religion in Reference to Civil Society. 1687.

Wen-yuan Qian, The Great Inertia: Scientific Stagnation in Traditional China. London: Croom Helm, 1985.

H. Rashdall, The Universities of Europe in the Middle Ages. Oxford, 1936.

Jack N. Rakove, Original Meanings: Politics and Ideas in the making of the Constitution. Vintage, 1997.

Georges Renard, Guilds in the Middle Ages. Batoche Books, Kitchener, 2000. (1918).

Nicholas V. Riasanovsky, A History of Russia. (6 edition) Oxford University Press, 1999.

Heinrich Rommen, The State in Catholic Thought. St. Louis, 1945.

Henrich Rommen, The Natural Law: A Study in Legal and Social History and Philosophy. 1936.

Michael Ivanovitch Rostovtzeff, The Social and Economic History of the Roman Empire. Clarendon Press, 1979.

Bertrand Russell, A History of Western Philosophy. Touchstone, 1967.

Conrad Russell, The Causes of the English Revolution. Oxford University Press, 1990.

A.J.R. Russell-Wood, The Portuguese Empire, 1415-1808: A World on the Move. The John Hopkins University Press, 1998.

Gustav Schmoller, The Mercantile System and its historical significance. (Chapter from Schmoller, Studien über die wirthschaftliche Politik Friedrichs des Grossen). 1884.

Jorge Secada, Cartesian Metaphysics: The Scholastic Origins of Modern Philosophy. Cambridge University Press, 2000.

Nicholas Sekunda and Richard Hook, Marathon 490 BC: The First Persian Invasion of Greece. Osprey Publishers, 2002.

Martin Sicker, The pre-Islamic Middle East. Westport, Conn: Praeger, 2000.

Vaclav Smil, Energy in World History. Boulder Westview Press, 1994.

W.R. Sorley, A History of English Philosophy. Cambridge, 1920.

Philip De Souza, Seafaring and Civilization: Maritime Perspectives on World History. Profile Books, New edition, 2002.

R. W. Southern, The Making of the Middle Ages. Yale University Press, 1961. (1953).

Herbert Spencer, Man versus the State, with Six essays on Government, Society and Freedom. 1884.

Peter Spufford, Money and its Use in Medieval Europe. Cambridge, 1988.

Peter Spufford, Handbook on Medieval Exchange. London: Royal Historical Society, 1986.

Lawrence Stone, The Causes of the English Revolution, 1529-1642. Routledge, 2001.

Barry Strauss, The Trojan War: A New History. Simon and Schuster, 2007.

Barry Strauss, The Battle of Salamis: The Naval Encounter that Saved Greece – and Western Civilization. Simon and Schuster, 2005.

Joseph R. Strayer, On the Medieval Origins of the Modern State. Princeton University Press, Second rev. edition, 2005.

L. S. Sutherland, The East India Company in Eighteenth Century Politics. Oxford, 1952.

Caius Cornelius Tacitus, Germania and Agricola. 98 AD.

Hippolyte Taine, The French Revolution. 1878. (Part 1 out of 3 volumes).  

Joseph Tainter, The Collapse of Complex Societies. Cambridge University Press,  1990.

L. Thorndike, A History of Magic and Experimental Science. New York, 1929.

Bruce Thorton, Greek Ways: How the Greeks Created Western Civilization. Encounter, 2002.

Malcolm Todd, The Early Germans. Wiley- Blackwell, 2oo4.

Jean-Pierre Torrell, Saint Thomas Aquinas: The Person and his Work. Catholic University of American Press, Revised New Edition. 2005.

Peter Turchin, Historical Dynamics: Why States Rise and Fall. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2003.

Peter Turchin, War and Peace & War: The Life Cycles of Imperial Nations. Pi Press, 2006.

Anne-Robert-Jacques Turgot, Reflection on the Formation and Distribution of Riches. 1770.

Abbott Payson Usher, A History of Mechanical Inventions, 1929.

Völsunga Saga. (13th Century prose, which origins perhaps goes back to the 5-6th Century). 

Aihe Wang, Cosmology and Political Culture in Early China. Cambridge University Press, 2000.

Bryan Ward-Perkins, The Fall of Rome: And the End of Civilization. Oxford University Press, 2005.

Ibn Warraq, Defending the West: A Critique of Edward Said’s Orientalism. Prometheus Books, 2007.

Robin Waterfield, Xenophon’s Retreat: Greece, Persia, and the end of the Golden Age. Belknap Press, 2006.

Peter S. Wells,  The Battle That Stopped Rome: Emperor Augustus, Arminius, and the Slaughter of the Legions in the Teutoburg Forest, W.W. Norton & Co. 2004.

Peter S. Well, The Barbarians Speaks: How the Conquered Peoples Shaped Roman Europe. Princeton University Press, 2001.

Alfred North Whitehead, Science and the Modern World. The Free Press, 1925.

Karl August Wittfogel, Oriental Despotism. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1957.

Herwig Wolfram, History of the Goths. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1988.

Allan Bernard Wolter & William A. Frank, Duns Scottus, Metaphysian. Purdue University Press, 1995.

E.A. Wrigley & R.S. Schofield, The Population History of England, 1541-1871. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1981.

Heinrich Zimmer, Philosophies of India. Cleveland: Meridian, 1956.

Articles:

Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson & James Robinson, The Rise of Europe: Atlantic Trade, Institutional Change and Economic Growth. Department of Economics, MIT, September 10, 2003.

Robert C. Allen, The Industrial revolution in miniature: The Spinning Jenny in Britain, France and India. Department of Economics, Oxford University, November 2007.

Robert C. Allen, How prosperous were the Romans? Evidence from Diocletian’s price edict (310 AD). Department of economics, Oxford University,  October 2007.

Robert C. Allen, The British Industrial Revolution in Global Perspective: How Commerce Created The Industrial Revolution and Modern Economic Growth. Department of economics, Oxford University, 2006.

Robert C. Allen, Capital accumulation, Technological Change and the Distribution of Income during the British Industrial Revolution. Nuffield College, Oxford University, 2005.

Robert C. Allen, Was there a Timber Crisis in Early Modern Europe. Economia e energia secc. Xiii-xviii. 2003. pp.469-482.

Robert C. Allen, The Great Divergence in European Wages and Prices from the Middle Ages to the First World War. Explorations in Economic History, 38. pp 411-447, 2001.

Robert C. Allen, Progress and Poverty in early modern Eruope. Economic History Review, LVI,  3. 2003. pp.403-443.

Robert C. Allen, The Great Divergence: Wages and Prices in Europe from the Middle Ages to the First World War. Department of Economics, The University of British Columbia, August 1998.

Robert C. Allen, Jean-Pascal Bassino & Christine Moll-Murata, Wages, Prices and Living Standards in China, Japan and Europe, 1738-1925. University of Oxford, Nuffield College, 2005.

S. Armstrong, Carolingian Coin Hoards and the Impact of the Viking Raids in the Ninth Century. Numismatic Chronicle, 158, 1998. pp.131-164.

Giovanni Andornino, The nature and linkages of China’s tributary system under the Ming and Qing dynasties. Department of Economic History, London School of Economics, March 2006.

Quamrul Ashraf and Oded Galor, Cultural Assimilation, Cultural Diffusion and the Origins of the Wealth of Nations.  Brown University, April 23, 2007.

Michael Bar & Oksana Leukhina, Demographic Transition and Industrial Revolution: A Macroeconomic investigation. Department of Economics, San Francisco State University, January 2008.

Bruce Bartlett, How Excessive Government Killed Ancient Rome. Cato Journal, Vol. 14. No. 2. Fall 1994.

Jean-Pascal Bassino and Debin Ma, Japanese Unskilled Wages in International Perspective, 1741-1913. Faculty of Mathematics and Social Science, Paul Valéry University (Montpellier III), 2005.

Bas van Bavel & Jan Luiten van Zanden, The Jump-Start of the Holland Economy During the Late Medieval Crisis, 1350-1500. Utrecht University, 2004.

Sascha O. Becker & Ludger Wössmann, Was Weber Wrong? A Human Capital Theory of Protestant Economic History. Department of Economics, University of Munich, January 2007.

Clifford Bekar and Richard G. Lipsey, Science, Institutions, and the Industrial Revolution. Department of Economics, Lewis and Clark College, Portland, Oregon, July 2001.

Suzanne Berger, Historical Imbalances and Great Debates: So the Economists see it coming?  Industrial Performance Center, MIT, September 2006.

Bruno Blondé, Antwerp and the dawn of a consumer society? Consumption and material culture in Antwerp. University of Antwerp, 2004.

Liam Brunt, Which institutions matter for economic growth. Vox, September 25, 2007.

Liam Brunt, Estimating English Wheat Production in the Industrial Revolution. Nuffield College, University of Oxford, June 1999.

P. Bruce Buchan, The East India Company 1749-1800: The Evolution of Territorial Strategy and the Changing Role of the Directors. Business and Economic History, vol. 23, no.1, Fall 1994.

Bruce M.S. Campbell, Factor Markets in England before the Black Death. School of Geography, The Queen’s University of Balfast, 2005.

Bruce M.S. Campbell, The Agrarian Problem in the Early Fourteenth Century. Past and Present, vol. 188. (2005). pp.3-70.

Chris Chase-Dunn, Alexis Alvarez, Dan Pasciuti & Thomas D. Hall, Power and Size: Urbanization and Empire Formation in World-System. University of California at Riverside, 2002.

Chris Chase-Dunn, Alexis Alvarez, Hiroko Inoue, Richard Niemeyer, Anders Carlson, Ben Fierro & Kirk Lawrence, Upward Sweeps of Empire and City Growth Since the Bronze Age. Sociology Department, University of California at Riverside, 2006.

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