HS117: Suggestions for Further Reading

From time to time the instructor will annotate and add to the below list.

Landes, David S., The Wealth and Poverty of Nations: Why some are so Rich and some are so Poor. N.Y.: W. W. Norton & Co., 1998. Self-explanatory title. As Planet Earth enters the 21st century, with an Industrial Revolution now some 250 years behind us, many countries remain economically underdeveloped. This major study examines, compares and contrasts the geographical and cultural elements which contributed to the phenomenon of economic development.

Rostow, Walter W., The Stages of Economic Growth: A Non-Communist Manifesto, Cambridge Univ. Press, 1991 (3rd ed.). An economic history of economic growth combined with a theory of the dynamics of this process. Considered to be a classic in the field.

Adams, Robert McC., Paths of Fire: An Anthropologist’s Inquiry into Western Technology, Princeton: Princeton Univ. Press, 1996

Adas, Michael, Machines as the Measure of Men: Science, Technology and Ideologies of Western Dominance., Ithaca: Cornell Univ. Press, 1989.

Baechler, Jean, & Hall, John A, & Mann, Michael (eds) Europe and the Rise of Capitalism: Oxford, Basil Blackwell, 1988.

Ban, E.G., Constant Feud: Jerusalem, Gefen Pub. House, Ltd., A good introduction to the present conflict in the area of Palestine,

Davies, Clyn,A History of Money from Ancient Times to the Present Day, Cardiff: Univ. of Wales Press, 2002.

Diamond, Jared, Guns, Germs, and Steel, W.W.Norton, 1997. Another study of global inequality that traces it sources to environmental factors. Winner of the Pulitzer Price for History and exceptional in that it was written by a biologists.