Economic History
David Hackett Fischer
Oxford University Press, 1996
The Great Wave: Price Revolutions and the Rhythm of History
Professor Fischer has done us a great service in tracing the long rhythms of prices.
Full review coming soon
History lives in its great books — and in the arguments between them. These are the works I return to, reviewed without fear or favour.
David Hackett Fischer
Oxford University Press, 1996
Professor Fischer has done us a great service in tracing the long rhythms of prices.
Full review coming soonChristopher Duggan
Vintage Books, 2013
Professor Duggan has opened a window into the past that had been closed.
Full review coming soonR.J.B. Bosworth
Arnold, 2002
Empty chameleon? Sell-out? Conflicted man? Bloodthirsty cynic? Bosworth weighs them all.
Full review coming soonSimon Schama
Viking, 1989
Schama is an excellent writer, and his command of the historiography is total.
Full review coming soonStanley Milgram
Harper Perennial, 2019
“I was just following orders, so I am not responsible.” Milgram tests the claim to destruction.
Full review coming soonChristopher R. Browning
Harper Collins, 2017
Men murder because the 'authorities' tell them to — Browning's chilling, essential study.
Full review coming soonMartin van Creveld
The Free Press, 1991
Van Creveld obliterates the dictum that war is nothing but the continuation of politics.
Full review coming soonMichael Scheuer
Brassey's Inc., 2004
Muslim terrorists do not hate the West because it is free — Scheuer's thesis is more uncomfortable.
Full review coming soonWilliam L. Shirer
Pan Books, 1964
Shirer was among the first to tackle the entire National Socialist period at once.
Full review coming soonGar Alperovitz
Alfred A. Knopf, 1995
Most Americans believe dropping the bombs was justified. Alperovitz asks whether it was necessary.
Full review coming soonSimon Sebag Montefiore
Weidenfeld and Nicholson, 2011
Montefiore writes a biographical labour of love for the most contested city on earth.
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