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"The era of reform. The Gilded Age. The Progressive Era. What historians often divide into discrete eras was one period of profound change: a massive, multipronged energy transition. Oil, gas, and electricity were woven into a culture that had to heal sectional differences after the Civil War, absorb an enormous influx of immigrants, shift from a rural to an urban society, and adopt a scientific understanding of nature.
"Every job, business, house, and street underwent a transformation so rapid and radical that Americans simply could not grasp the larger pattern. The concepts of “technology” and an “energy transition” had yet to emerge, and observers struggled to understand their experiences using inadequate terms such as “kaleidoscopic change,” “applied science,” and “the machine age.” In The Great Energy Transition, David Nye documents this transformation—and explains our failure to see it for what it was.
"In this disorienting transformation, Nye locates the roots of today’s cultural polarization. The great energy transition accelerated demographic and economic trends, including higher wages, increasing longevity, the commodification of experience, engineering nature, corporatism, urbanization, resistance to science, and racial segregation. At the same time, the book points to the innovations and institutions that held the country together, from national parks and monuments to mass consumption and newly invented media events."]]></description>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:enlightenment"/>
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<item rdf:about="https://www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/jep.33.2.51">
    <title>&quot;Automation&quot; of Manufacturing in the Late Nineteenth Century: The Hand and Machine Labor Study</title>
    <dc:date>2019-05-26T01:57:43+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/jep.33.2.51</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Recent advances in artificial intelligence and robotics have generated a robust debate about the future of work. An analogous debate occurred in the late nineteenth century when mechanization first transformed manufacturing. We analyze an extraordinary dataset from the late nineteenth century, the Hand and Machine Labor study carried out by the US Department of Labor in the mid-1890s. We focus on transitions at the task level from hand to machine production, and on the impact of inanimate power, especially of steam power, on labor productivity. Our analysis sheds light on the ability of modern task-based models to account for the effects of historical mechanization."]]></description>
<dc:subject>to:NB economics economic_history great_transformation</dc:subject>
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<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:bfc998ef40a7/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="https://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/subjects/politics-international-relations/political-economy/warfare-wealth-military-origins-urban-prosperity-europe?format=PB&amp;isbn=9781316612590">
    <title>Warfare wealth military origins urban prosperity europe | Political economy | Cambridge University Press</title>
    <dc:date>2018-12-14T17:16:47+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/subjects/politics-international-relations/political-economy/warfare-wealth-military-origins-urban-prosperity-europe?format=PB&amp;isbn=9781316612590</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["The economic rise of Europe over the past millennium represents a major human breakthrough. To explain this phenomenon, this book highlights a counterintuitive yet central feature of Europe's historical landscape: warfare. Historical warfare inflicted numerous costs on rural populations. Security was a traditional function of the city. To mitigate the high costs of conflict in the countryside, rural populations migrated to urban centers. Over time, the city's historical role as a safe harbor translated into local economic development through several channels, including urban political freedoms and human capital accumulation. To make this argument, the book performs a wide-ranging analysis of a novel quantitative database that spans more than one thousand years, from the fall of the Carolingian Empire to today. The book's study of urban Europe's historical path from warfare to wealth provides a new way to think about the process of long-run economic and political development."

--- I'm sure to read this, but I can't begin to see how a data set about _one_ region (i.e., Europe) can answer a question that's inherently about comparisons _across_ regions (i.e., the whole of the "Old World Oecumene").]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="http://jwsr.pitt.edu/ojs/index.php/jwhi/article/view/817">
    <title>Demographic Models for Projecting Population and Migration: Methods for African Historical Analysis | Manning | Journal of World-Historical Information</title>
    <dc:date>2018-12-04T01:58:50+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://jwsr.pitt.edu/ojs/index.php/jwhi/article/view/817</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["This study presents methods for projecting population and migration over time in cases were empirical data are missing or undependable. The methods are useful for cases in which the researcher has details of population size and structure for a limited period of time (most obviously, the end point), with scattered evidence on other times. It enables estimation of population size, including its structure in age, sex, and status, either forward or backward in time. The program keeps track of all the details. The calculated data can be reported or sampled and compared to empirical findings at various times and places to expected values based on other procedures of estimation.
"The application of these general methods that is developed here is the projection of African populations backwards in time from 1950, since 1950 is the first date for which consistently strong demographic estimates are available for national-level populations all over the African continent. The models give particular attention to migration through enslavement, which was highly important in Africa from 1650 to 1900. Details include a sensitivity analysis showing relative significance of input variables and techniques for calibrating various dimensions of the projection with each other. These same methods may be applicable to quite different historical situations, as long as the data conform in structure to those considered here."

--- The final for the Kids.]]></description>
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<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
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<item rdf:about="https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/W/bo21163332">
    <title>The Worldmakers: Global Imagining in Early Modern Europe, Ramachandran</title>
    <dc:date>2018-10-10T22:22:11+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/W/bo21163332</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["In this beautifully conceived book, Ayesha Ramachandran reconstructs the imaginative struggles of early modern artists, philosophers, and writers to make sense of something that we take for granted: the world, imagined as a whole. Once a new, exciting, and frightening concept, “the world” was transformed in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. But how could one envision something that no one had ever seen in its totality?
"The Worldmakers moves beyond histories of globalization to explore how “the world” itself—variously understood as an object of inquiry, a comprehensive category, and a system of order—was self-consciously shaped by human agents. Gathering an international cast of characters, from Dutch cartographers and French philosophers to Portuguese and English poets, Ramachandran describes a history of firsts: the first world atlas, the first global epic, the first modern attempt to develop a systematic natural philosophy—all part of an effort by early modern thinkers to capture “the world” on the page."]]></description>
<dc:subject>to:NB books:noted early_modern_european_history history_of_ideas great_transformation modernity</dc:subject>
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<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:16739c3b6e59/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674976672">
    <title>Power, Pleasure, and Profit — David Wootton | Harvard University Press</title>
    <dc:date>2018-07-23T12:52:12+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674976672</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["We pursue power, pleasure, and profit. We want as much as we can get, and we deploy instrumental reasoning—cost-benefit analysis—to get it. We judge ourselves and others by how well we succeed. It is a way of life and thought that seems natural, inevitable, and inescapable. As David Wootton shows, it is anything but. In Power, Pleasure, and Profit, he traces an intellectual and cultural revolution that replaced the older systems of Aristotelian ethics and Christian morality with the iron cage of instrumental reasoning that now gives shape and purpose to our lives.
"Wootton guides us through four centuries of Western thought—from Machiavelli to Madison—to show how new ideas about politics, ethics, and economics stepped into a gap opened up by religious conflict and the Scientific Revolution. As ideas about godliness and Aristotelian virtue faded, theories about the rational pursuit of power, pleasure, and profit moved to the fore in the work of writers both obscure and as famous as Hobbes, Locke, and Adam Smith. The new instrumental reasoning cut through old codes of status and rank, enabling the emergence of movements for liberty and equality. But it also helped to create a world in which virtue, honor, shame, and guilt count for almost nothing, and what matters is success.
"Is our world better for the rise of instrumental reasoning? To answer that question, Wootton writes, we must first recognize that we live in its grip."

--- Wotton's book on the scientific revolution is fantastic, so I'm looking forward to this.]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="https://www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/aer.20170748">
    <title>Escaping Malthus: Economic Growth and Fertility Change in the Developing World</title>
    <dc:date>2018-06-09T15:05:40+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/aer.20170748</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Following mid-twentieth century predictions of Malthusian catastrophe, fertility in the developing world more than halved, while living standards more than doubled. We analyze how fertility change related to economic growth during this episode, using data on 2.3 million women from 255 household surveys. We find different responses to fluctuations and long-run growth, both heterogeneous over the life cycle. Fertility was procyclical but declined and delayed with long-run growth; fluctuations late (but not early) in the reproductive period affected lifetime fertility. The results are consistent with models of the escape from the Malthusian trap, extended with a life cycle and liquidity constraints."]]></description>
<dc:subject>demography economics great_transformation in_NB</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674983632">
    <title>The Great Rift — Michael E. Hobart | Harvard University Press</title>
    <dc:date>2018-02-13T00:39:50+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674983632</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["In their search for truth, contemporary religious believers and modern scientific investigators hold many values in common. But in their approaches, they express two fundamentally different conceptions of how to understand and represent the world. Michael E. Hobart looks for the origin of this difference in the work of Renaissance thinkers who invented a revolutionary mathematical system—relational numeracy. By creating meaning through numbers and abstract symbols rather than words, relational numeracy allowed inquisitive minds to vault beyond the constraints of language and explore the natural world with a fresh interpretive vision.
"The Great Rift is the first book to examine the religion-science divide through the history of information technology. Hobart follows numeracy as it emerged from the practical counting systems of merchants, the abstract notations of musicians, the linear perspective of artists, and the calendars and clocks of astronomers. As the technology of the alphabet and of mere counting gave way to abstract symbols, the earlier “thing-mathematics” metamorphosed into the relational mathematics of modern scientific investigation. Using these new information symbols, Galileo and his contemporaries mathematized motion and matter, separating the demonstrations of science from the linguistic logic of religious narration.
"Hobart locates the great rift between science and religion not in ideological disagreement but in advances in mathematics and symbolic representation that opened new windows onto nature. In so doing, he connects the cognitive breakthroughs of the past with intellectual debates ongoing in the twenty-first century."]]></description>
<dc:subject>in_NB scientific_revolution great_transformation early_modern_european_history mathematization_of_the_world_picture history_of_science history</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/subjects/history/economic-history/information-nexus-global-capitalism-renaissance-present?format=PB">
    <title>The Information Nexus | Economic History | Cambridge University Press</title>
    <dc:date>2016-09-22T14:29:26+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/subjects/history/economic-history/information-nexus-global-capitalism-renaissance-present?format=PB</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Capitalism is central to our understanding of contemporary economic and political life and yet what does it really mean? If, as has now been shown to be the case, capital and property rights existed in pre-modern and pre-capitalist societies, what is left of our understanding of capitalism? Steven Marks' provocative new book calls into question everything we thought we knew about capitalism, from the word's very origins and development to the drivers of Western economic growth. Ranging from the Middle Ages to the present, The Information Nexus reveals that the truly distinctive feature of capitalism is business's drive to acquire and analyze information, supported by governments that allow unfettered access to public data. This new interpretation of capitalism helps to explain the rise of the West, puts our current information age into historical perspective, and provides a benchmark for the comparative assessment of economic systems in today's globalized environment."]]></description>
<dc:subject>to:NB books:noted capitalism social_life_of_the_mind great_transformation early_modern_european_history</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.bradford-delong.com/2016/07/gunpowder-empire-should-we-generalize-mark-elvins-high-level-equilibrium-trap.html">
    <title>&quot;Gunpowder Empire&quot;: Should We Generalize Mark Elvin's High-Level Equilibrium Trap?</title>
    <dc:date>2016-07-27T12:44:28+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.bradford-delong.com/2016/07/gunpowder-empire-should-we-generalize-mark-elvins-high-level-equilibrium-trap.html</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Brad has saved me from writing a post (but not, perhaps, from promulgating a pet semi-crank notion).]]></description>
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<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:1c20e61f014c/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://press.princeton.edu/titles/10835.html">
    <title>Mokyr, J.: A Culture of Growth: The Origins of the Modern Economy. (eBook and Hardcover)</title>
    <dc:date>2016-05-07T18:16:50+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://press.princeton.edu/titles/10835.html</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["During the late eighteenth century, innovations in Europe triggered the Industrial Revolution and the sustained economic progress that spread across the globe. While much has been made of the details of the Industrial Revolution, what remains a mystery is why it took place at all. Why did this revolution begin in the West and not elsewhere, and why did it continue, leading to today’s unprecedented prosperity? In this groundbreaking book, celebrated economic historian Joel Mokyr argues that a culture of growth specific to early modern Europe and the European Enlightenment laid the foundations for the scientific advances and pioneering inventions that would instigate explosive technological and economic development. Bringing together economics, the history of science and technology, and models of cultural evolution, Mokyr demonstrates that culture—the beliefs, values, and preferences in society that are capable of changing behavior—was a deciding factor in societal transformations.
"Mokyr looks at the period 1500–1700 to show that a politically fragmented Europe fostered a competitive “market for ideas” and a willingness to investigate the secrets of nature. At the same time, a transnational community of brilliant thinkers known as the “Republic of Letters” freely circulated and distributed ideas and writings. This political fragmentation and the supportive intellectual environment explain how the Industrial Revolution happened in Europe but not China, despite similar levels of technology and intellectual activity. In Europe, heterodox and creative thinkers could find sanctuary in other countries and spread their thinking across borders. In contrast, China’s version of the Enlightenment remained controlled by the ruling elite."]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="http://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/distributed/H/bo20708635">
    <title>How the West Came to Rule: The Geopolitical Origins of Capitalism, Anievas, Nisancioglu</title>
    <dc:date>2015-08-05T00:13:33+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/distributed/H/bo20708635</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["How the West Came to Rule offers a unique interdisciplinary and international historical account of the origins of capitalism. It argues that contrary to dominant wisdom, capitalism’s origins should not be understood as a development confined to the geographically and culturally sealed borders of Europe, but the outcome of a wider array of global processes in which non-European societies played a decisive role. Through an outline of the uneven histories of Mongolian expansion, New World discoveries, Ottoman-Habsburg rivalry, the development of the colonies, and bourgeois revolutions, Alex Anievas and Kerem Nisancioglu offer an account of capitalism’s origins that convincingly argues against the prevailing Eurocentric narratives."]]></description>
<dc:subject>books:noted world_history great_transformation capitalism economic_history imperialism in_wishlist in_NB</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1468-0297.2010.02403.x/abstract">
    <title>Pre-Industrial Inequality - Milanovic - 2010 - The Economic Journal - Wiley Online Library</title>
    <dc:date>2014-10-18T02:17:46+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1468-0297.2010.02403.x/abstract</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Is inequality largely the result of the Industrial Revolution? Or, were pre-industrial incomes as unequal as they are today? This article infers inequality across individuals within each of the 28 pre-industrial societies, for which data were available, using what are known as social tables. It applies two new concepts: the inequality possibility frontier and the inequality extraction ratio. They compare the observed income inequality to the maximum feasible inequality that, at a given level of income, might have been ‘extracted’ by those in power. The results give new insights into the connection between inequality and economic development in the very long run."

--- Ungated: https://www.gc.cuny.edu/CUNY_GC/media/CUNY-Graduate-Center/PDF/Centers/LIS/Milanovic/papers/2011/MLW_final.pdf]]></description>
<dc:subject>to:NB economics economic_history inequality great_transformation have_read to:blog milanovic.branko</dc:subject>
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<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:4180acaf3394/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://ereh.oxfordjournals.org/content/15/3/365.short">
    <title>Survival of the richest? Social status, fertility and social mobility in England 1541-1824</title>
    <dc:date>2014-07-29T11:21:57+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://ereh.oxfordjournals.org/content/15/3/365.short</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["We use data collected by the Cambridge Group to investigate and explain differences in fertility by socio-economic group in pre-industrial England. We find, in line with results presented by Greg Clark, that wealthier groups did indeed have higher fertility until the 1700s. We demonstrate that this had to do with earlier age at marriage for women. We then turn to the likely social and economic impact of this, considering Clark's hypothesis that ‘middle-class values’ spread through English society prior to the Industrial Revolution. Through the construction of social mobility tables, we demonstrate that the children of the rich were indeed spreading through society, but they were small in number relative to poorer sections of society, and moreover the children of the poor were also entering the middle classes."]]></description>
<dc:subject>to:NB early_modern_european_history economics inequality great_transformation to:blog historical_genetics have_read economic_history demography</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:c15fb469f9a6/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://delong.typepad.com/sdj/2014/07/first-draft-oversharing-about-money-an-international-financial-wire-transfer-from-lafayette-california-usa-to-ahero-nyan.html#more">
    <title>FIRST DRAFT: Oversharing About Money: An International Financial Wire Transfer from Lafayette, California, USA to Ahero, Nyando District, Nyanza Province, Kenya (Brad DeLong's Grasping Reality...)</title>
    <dc:date>2014-07-12T20:54:08+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://delong.typepad.com/sdj/2014/07/first-draft-oversharing-about-money-an-international-financial-wire-transfer-from-lafayette-california-usa-to-ahero-nyan.html#more</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Now when we look at the totals on our quarterly index-fund statements, there is perhaps a difference in the third significant figure. Now if you were to go to Ahero, Nyando District, Nyanza Province, Kenya, you would find an extra well--one located not near the rice fields but in among the houses, with an elderly woman charging pennies for you to fill a bucket. And perhaps you would find a substantial number of additional girls sitting in school rooms rather than walking extra miles with buckets on their heads. And perhaps a substantial number of men and their relatives are grateful to Moses for getting them some money by giving them the opportunity to work on the well.
"So a feel-good story, no? But telling it again reminds me that I ought to set this process in motion with a better heart. Telling it again reminds me that we ought not to live in a world in which $20K distributed among AIDS-survivors in Ahero, Kenya has the same salience that $5M has for people like me in Greater San Francisco. And telling it again reminds me that we ought not to live in a world in which we lack the organizational competence to use productive modern rather than less-productive 3000-year-old technologies to dig wells near the shores of Lake Victoria."]]></description>
<dc:subject>economics political_economy kenya imperialism great_transformation AIDS the_nightmare_from_which_we_are_trying_to_awake moral_philosophy delong.brad to:blog</dc:subject>
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<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:1935419867df/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://delong.typepad.com/files/edwards---april-2014.pdf">
    <title>Economic Revolution: Song China and England</title>
    <dc:date>2014-04-28T20:54:42+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://delong.typepad.com/files/edwards---april-2014.pdf</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["I claim that China during the Song Dynasty (960 – 1279 AD) (Song China hereafter) experienced the onset of an Economic Revolution, preceding England’s by nearly a millennium. The concept of Economic Revolution is defined to include two types – one Premodern (non-science based) with a low growth rate of per capita product and one Modern (science-based) with a high growth rate of per capita product. It is argued that the Song China vs. England comparison is more relevant than other comparisons with England. Using both the Song China and England episodes, I introduce a new definition of the “onset of an Economic Revolution” that identifies preliminary social changes. I call this the Embryonic Stage and contend that it causes firm formation, household changes and an increase in the pace of technological innovation. I argue the Embryonic Stage more clearly identifies and dates the onset of an Economic Revolution. This has important implications for causal theories."]]></description>
<dc:subject>to_read economics industrial_revolution world_history medieval_eurasian_history china economic_history economic_growth great_transformation via:jbdelong entableted in_NB</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:b477368baf8a/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.powells.com/biblio/72-9780226304847-0">
    <title>The Disciplinary Revolution: Calvinism and the Rise of the State in Early Modern Europe by Philip S. Gorski - Powell's Books</title>
    <dc:date>2014-03-13T20:28:59+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.powells.com/biblio/72-9780226304847-0</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["What explains the rapid growth of state power in early modern Europe? While most scholars have pointed to the impact of military or capitalist revolutions, Philip S. Gorski argues instead for the importance of a disciplinary revolution unleashed by the Reformation. By refining and diffusing a variety of disciplinary techniques and strategies, such as communal surveillance, control through incarceration, and bureaucratic office-holding, Calvin and his followers created an infrastructure of religious governance and social control that served as a model for the rest of Europe---and the world."]]></description>
<dc:subject>to:NB books:noted great_transformation early_modern_european_history calvinism state-building</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:dc36189552c7/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/M/bo16744364">
    <title>Making England Western: Occidentalism, Race, and Imperial Culture, Makdisi</title>
    <dc:date>2014-02-08T18:14:06+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/M/bo16744364</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["The central argument of Edward Said’sOrientalism is that the relationship between Britain and its colonies was primarily oppositional, based on contrasts between conquest abroad and domestic order at home. Saree Makdisi directly challenges that premise inMaking England Western, identifying the convergence between the British Empire’s civilizing mission abroad and a parallel mission within England itself, and pointing to Romanticism as one of the key sites of resistance to the imperial culture in Britain after 1815.
"Makdisi argues that there existed places and populations in both England and the colonies that were thought of in similar terms—for example, there were sites in England that might as well have been Arabia, and English people to whom the idea of the freeborn Englishman did not extend.The boundaries between “us” and “them” began to take form during the Romantic period, when England became a desirable Occidental space, connected with but superior to distant lands. Delving into the works of Wordsworth, Austen, Byron, Dickens, and others to trace an arc of celebration, ambivalence, and criticism influenced by these imperial dynamics, Makdisi demonstrates the extent to which Romanticism offered both hopes for and warnings against future developments in Occidentalism. Revealing that Romanticism provided a way to resist imperial logic about improvement and moral virtue, Making England Western is an exciting contribution to the study of both British literature and colonialism."

--- I think something was lost by not titling this _The Wogs Began at Stepney_.]]></description>
<dc:subject>to:NB books:noted history_of_ideas orientalism imperialism ideology great_transformation modernity peasants_into_englishmen european_history racism</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:5722a7d5125c/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://press.princeton.edu/titles/10138.html">
    <title>Kander, A. and Malanima, P., Warde, P.: Power to the People: Energy in Europe over the Last Five Centuries. (eBook and Cloth)</title>
    <dc:date>2014-01-16T03:00:26+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://press.princeton.edu/titles/10138.html</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Power to the People examines the varied but interconnected relationships between energy consumption and economic development in Europe over the last five centuries. It describes how the traditional energy economy of medieval and early modern Europe was marked by stable or falling per capita energy consumption, and how the First Industrial Revolution in the eighteenth century--fueled by coal and steam engines--redrew the economic, social, and geopolitical map of Europe and the world. The Second Industrial Revolution continued this energy expansion and social transformation through the use of oil and electricity, but after 1970 Europe entered a new stage in which energy consumption has stabilized. This book challenges the view that the outsourcing of heavy industry overseas is the cause, arguing that a Third Industrial Revolution driven by new information and communication technologies has played a major stabilizing role.
"Power to the People offers new perspectives on the challenges posed today by climate change and peak oil, demonstrating that although the path of modern economic development has vastly increased our energy use, it has not been a story of ever-rising and continuous consumption. The book sheds light on the often lengthy and complex changes needed for new energy systems to emerge, the role of energy resources in economic growth, and the importance of energy efficiency in promoting growth and reducing future energy demand."]]></description>
<dc:subject>to:NB books:noted economic_history industrial_revolution great_transformation energy environmental_history</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:8443290c78c1/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/B/bo14365153">
    <title>Baroque Science, Gal, Chen-Morris</title>
    <dc:date>2013-03-30T04:38:51+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/B/bo14365153</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Gal and Chen-Morris show how scientists during the seventeenth century turned away from the trust in the acquisition of knowledge through the senses towards a growing reliance on the mediation of artificial instruments, such as lenses and mirrors for observation and mechanical and pneumatic devices for experimentation. Likewise, the mathematical techniques and procedures that allowed the success of mathematical natural philosophy turned increasingly obscure and artificial, and in place of divine harmonies they revealed an assemblage of isolated, contingent laws and constants."]]></description>
<dc:subject>to:NB books:noted scientific_revolution great_transformation history_of_science</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:fd5d09660902/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.cambridge.org/us/knowledge/isbn/item6435247/?site_locale=en_US">
    <title>Why Europe Grew Rich and Asia Did Not: Global Economic Divergence, 1600–1850</title>
    <dc:date>2013-01-03T02:01:51+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.cambridge.org/us/knowledge/isbn/item6435247/?site_locale=en_US</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Why Europe Grew Rich and Asia Did Not provides a striking new answer to the classic question of why Europe industrialized from the late eighteenth century and Asia did not. Drawing significantly from the case of India, Prasannan Parthasarathi shows that in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, the advanced regions of Europe and Asia were more alike than different, both characterized by sophisticated and growing economies. Their subsequent divergence can be attributed to different competitive and ecological pressures that in turn produced varied state policies and economic outcomes. This account breaks with conventional views, which hold that divergence occurred because Europe possessed superior markets, rationality, science, or institutions. It offers instead a groundbreaking rereading of global economic development that ranges from India, Japan and China to Britain, France, and the Ottoman Empire and from the textile and coal industries to the roles of science, technology, and the state."]]></description>
<dc:subject>to:NB books:noted economic_history great_transformation world_history comparative_history india industrial_revolution</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:85146e989dab/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.cambridge.org/us/knowledge/isbn/item3779988/?site_locale=en_US">
    <title>Energy and the English Industrial Revolution - Academic and Professional Books - Cambridge University Press</title>
    <dc:date>2013-01-03T01:59:25+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.cambridge.org/us/knowledge/isbn/item3779988/?site_locale=en_US</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["The industrial revolution transformed the productive power of societies. It did so by vastly increasing the individual productivity, thus delivering whole populations from poverty. In this new account by one of the world's acknowledged authorities the central issue is not simply how the revolution began but still more why it did not quickly end. The answer lay in the use of a new source of energy. Pre-industrial societies had access only to very limited energy supplies. As long as mechanical energy came principally from human or animal muscle and heat energy from wood, the maximum attainable level of productivity was bound to be low. Exploitation of a new source of energy in the form of coal provided an escape route from the constraints of an organic economy but also brought novel dangers. Since this happened first in England, its experience has a special fascination, though other countries rapidly followed suit."

--- How is this a "new view" of the Industrial Revolution, as opposed to the obvious truth?!?]]></description>
<dc:subject>to:NB books:noted industrial_revolution great_transformation energy economic_history</dc:subject>
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<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:ed0401891bc5/</dc:identifier>
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    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Few events in the history of humanity rival the Industrial Revolution. Following its onset in eighteenth-century Britain, sweeping changes in agriculture, manufacturing, transportation, and technology began to gain unstoppable momentum throughout Europe, North America, and eventually much of the world—with profound effects on socioeconomic and cultural conditions.
"In The Institutional Revolution, Douglas W. Allen offers a thought-provoking account of another, quieter revolution that took place at the end of the eighteenth century and allowed for the full exploitation of the many new technological innovations. Fundamental to this shift were dramatic changes in institutions, or the rules that govern society, which reflected significant improvements in the ability to measure performance—whether of government officials, laborers, or naval officers—thereby reducing the role of nature and the hazards of variance in daily affairs. Along the way, Allen provides readers with a fascinating explanation of the critical roles played by seemingly bizarre institutions, from dueling to the purchase of one’s rank in the British Army.
"Engagingly written, The Institutional Revolutiontraces the dramatic shift from premodern institutions based on patronage, purchase, and personal ties toward modern institutions based on standardization, merit, and wage labor—a shift which was crucial to the explosive economic growth of the Industrial Revolution."]]></description>
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    <title>Labor Day and the Creation of “Free,” Anti-Feudalistic Labor Through Regulation | Rortybomb</title>
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    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[I had no idea.
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    <title>The Birth of the Modern World, 1780-1914: Global Connections and Comparisons (Blackwell History of the World) by C. A. Bayly - Powell's Books</title>
    <dc:date>2011-09-05T17:49:53+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.powells.com/biblio?isbn=978-0631236160</link>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.cambridge.org/catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=9780521170529">
    <title>Intellectual Curiosity and the Scientific Revolution - Cambridge University Press</title>
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    <title>Urban Modernity - The MIT Press</title>
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    <title>Powell's Books - Happiness: A History by Darrin Mcmahon</title>
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    <link>http://www.powells.com/biblio?isbn=9780802142894</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["our modern belief in happiness — that happiness is a natural right — is a relatively recent development. It is a product of a dramatic revolution in human expectations carried out since the eighteenth century. Central to the development of Christianity, ideas of happiness assumed their modern form during the Enlightenment, when men and women were first introduced to the novel prospect that they could — in fact should — be happy in this life as opposed to the hereafter. Ultimately, the Enlightenment's recognition of happiness as a motivating ideal led to its consecration in the Declaration of Independence and France's Declaration of the Rights of Man. McMahon follows this great pursuit through to the present day, showing how our modern search for happiness continues to generate new forms of pleasure, but also, paradoxically, new forms of pain."
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<item rdf:about="http://www.jstor.org/pss/2779368">
    <title>&quot;The Growth of the World System&quot; (Stinchcombe on Wallerstein, 1982)</title>
    <dc:date>2010-02-26T04:09:54+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.jstor.org/pss/2779368</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><dc:subject>via:kjhealy evisceration book_reviews world_history great_transformation capitalism economic_history sociology stinchcombe.arthur wallerstein.immanuel</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.powells.com/cgi-bin/biblio?inkey=62-9780745636764-0">
    <title>Powell's Books - The Making of Modern Science: Science, Technology, Medicine and Modernity: 1789 - 1914 by David Knight</title>
    <dc:date>2009-11-07T17:53:21+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.powells.com/cgi-bin/biblio?inkey=62-9780745636764-0</link>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.econ.yale.edu/~nq3/NANCYS_Yale_Website/Research_files/Nunn_Qian_JEP_Submission.pdf">
    <title>the Columbian Exchange: A History of Disease, Food, and Ideas</title>
    <dc:date>2009-10-07T19:44:46+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.econ.yale.edu/~nq3/NANCYS_Yale_Website/Research_files/Nunn_Qian_JEP_Submission.pdf</link>
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    <title>Israel, J.: A Revolution of the Mind: Radical Enlightenment and the Intellectual Origins of Modern Democracy.</title>
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    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Comparing claims that electronic media make us stupid and distracted to the reality of life in a poor, low-tech community: "For people trying to work and run a family at the same time, not only are the consequences of missing something more important and potentially more dangerous, but it's impossible to take a break. A break means your kids are in danger, your family doesn't get fed and you're losing money that buys the food.  Now, think about the fact that the majority of the world live just like this, and not in not in the world of email, tweets and instant messaging. Until about 100 years ago everyone lived like this.  In other words, the ability to focus on a single task, relatively uninterrupted, is the strange anomaly in the history of our psychological development."  Well-said, but misses the fact that the _rich_ could concentrate, because they had servants.  (This is part of why Aristotle said leisure was a requirement for learning.)
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<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:ae7fdaa64380/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/item/default.asp?ttype=2&amp;tid=10490">
    <title>The Heirs of Archimedes: Science and the Art of War Through the Age of Enlightenment - The MIT Press</title>
    <dc:date>2009-02-06T15:20:10+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/item/default.asp?ttype=2&amp;tid=10490</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["examines the emergence during the early modern era of mathematicians, chemists, and natural philosophers who, along with military engineers, navigators, and artillery officers, followed in the footsteps of Archimedes and synthesized scientific theory and military practice. It is the first collaborative scholarly assessment of these early military-scientific relationships  ... investigates the deep connections between two central manifestations of Western power, examining the military context of the Scientific Revolution and the scientific context of the Military Revolution. Unlike the classic narratives of the Scientific Revolution that focus on the theories of, and conflicts between, Aristotelian and Platonic worldviews, ... highlights the emergence of the Archimedean ideal—... a symbiosis ... between the supply of mechanistic science and the demand for military capability. "
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<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:b651eeaeb9f8/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:early_modern_european_history"/>
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<item rdf:about="http://delong.typepad.com/sdj/2009/01/marx-the-future-results-of-british-rule-in-india.html#comments">
    <title>Grasping Reality: Marx: The Future Results of British Rule in India</title>
    <dc:date>2009-01-13T00:23:28+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://delong.typepad.com/sdj/2009/01/marx-the-future-results-of-british-rule-in-india.html#comments</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Marx as the prophet of the industrial revolution and globalization.  (It really is remarkable how much he sounds like, say, _The Economist_ --- except for the bit about how the benefits of technology and globalization won't be truly realized until they're brought under human control, of course.)
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<dc:subject>marx.karl india imperialism industrial_revolution globalization historical_materialism great_transformation</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:94e7d0ca140a/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.labyrinthbooks.com/sale_detail.aspx?isbn=9780521479585">
    <title>Military Revolution: Military Innovation and the Rise of the West, 1500-1800 - Parker (@Labyrinth)</title>
    <dc:date>2008-08-21T01:36:56+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.labyrinthbooks.com/sale_detail.aspx?isbn=9780521479585</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[How Europeans got to be so good at killing people.
]]></description>
<dc:subject>books:recommended early_modern_european_history war mother_courage_raises_the_west great_transformation parker.geoffrey</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:545e22b639b0/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.labyrinthbooks.com/sale_detail.aspx?isbn=9780801492631">
    <title>Nations and Nationalism - Ernest Gellner (@Labyrinth)</title>
    <dc:date>2008-08-06T01:46:06+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.labyrinthbooks.com/sale_detail.aspx?isbn=9780801492631</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[See http://bactra.org/reviews/nations-and-nationalism/
]]></description>
<dc:subject>books:recommended nationalism sociology great_transformation gellner.ernest</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/29/magazine/29Birth-t.html?ei=5087&amp;em=&amp;en=bedbd5447077b8c3&amp;ex=1214971200&amp;pagewanted=print">
    <title>No Babies? - Declining Population in Europe - NYTimes.com</title>
    <dc:date>2008-07-01T11:24:31+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/29/magazine/29Birth-t.html?ei=5087&amp;em=&amp;en=bedbd5447077b8c3&amp;ex=1214971200&amp;pagewanted=print</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Very nicely written, but someone should have made the point (which I learned from Dean Baker) that rising productivity lets the dependency ratio _and_ living standards rise.
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<dc:subject>demography economics great_transformation</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:c3e5688f0298/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://magistraetmater.blog.co.uk/2008/06/05/death-and-apocalypse-4278319">
    <title>Death and apocalypse</title>
    <dc:date>2008-06-08T02:12:04+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://magistraetmater.blog.co.uk/2008/06/05/death-and-apocalypse-4278319</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["The last fifty years have brought us in the West the hitherto unimaginable prospect of death no longer being routine."
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<dc:subject>apocalypticism memento_mori great_transformation</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:f898726e4ca2/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://delong.typepad.com/sdj/2008/05/after-the-exami.html">
    <title>After the Examination All Professors Are Sad: A Dialogue About Teaching the Wrong Thing</title>
    <dc:date>2008-05-21T06:04:40+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://delong.typepad.com/sdj/2008/05/after-the-exami.html</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[note in passing: _none_ of his 3 ways of organizing R&D matches the (uniquely successful) system of modern American science.
]]></description>
<dc:subject>economics teaching solow.robert economic_growth economic_history social_science_methodology great_transformation development_economics delong.brad innovation</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:285e52ca487f/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:solow.robert"/>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.j-bradford-delong.net/2008_pdf/20080519_1870.pdf">
    <title>1870: The Real Industrial Revolution</title>
    <dc:date>2008-05-20T16:06:40+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.j-bradford-delong.net/2008_pdf/20080519_1870.pdf</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Brad dates the Singularity to 1870.
]]></description>
<dc:subject>great_transformation industrial_revolution economics delong.brad the_singularity_has_happened mill.john_stuart</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:e1234dea35bd/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:delong.brad"/>
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</item>
<item rdf:about="http://www.idih.org/wiki/Joseph_Richmond_Levenson">
    <title>Joseph Richmond Levenson - IDIH</title>
    <dc:date>2008-05-14T02:28:19+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.idih.org/wiki/Joseph_Richmond_Levenson</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[_Confucian China and Its Modern Fate_ is one of the best works of history I have ever read.
]]></description>
<dc:subject>china tradition cultural_transmission cultural_exchange great_transformation modernity confucianism history_of_ideas world_history lives_of_the_scholars levenson.joseph_r</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:4739879bbb4b/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.econ.brown.edu/fac/Oded_Galor/UGT.htm">
    <title>Oded Galor's home Page. Recent Working Papers</title>
    <dc:date>2008-02-28T22:11:36+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.econ.brown.edu/fac/Oded_Galor/UGT.htm</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Unified Growth Theory", i.e., economic growth.  Talks a lot about attractors.  Anything to this?
]]></description>
<dc:subject>economics economic_history development_economics great_transformation equilibrium_traps dynamical_systems via:zms macroeconomics</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:3d9ee017d497/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.labyrinthbooks.com/sale_detail.aspx?isbn=9780942299328">
    <title>A Thousand Years of Nonlinear History - DeLanda (@Labyrinth)</title>
    <dc:date>2008-02-27T01:33:19+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.labyrinthbooks.com/sale_detail.aspx?isbn=9780942299328</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Surprisingly sane; notes at http://bactra.org/weblog/algae-2006-05.html
]]></description>
<dc:subject>delanda.manuel world_history great_transformation linguistics language_history globalization cities institutions memes complexity materialism philosophy emergence economics economic_history books:recommended</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:f766ca0bb361/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/005413.html">
    <title>Language Log: Poor, arid, and, in appearance, deformed</title>
    <dc:date>2008-02-25T19:05:21+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/005413.html</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Do in Indo-European languages in fact have a vocabulary conducive to modern scientific concepts, or did they in fact have to force their way in?
]]></description>
<dc:subject>linguistic_relativity great_transformation scientific_revolution language_history liberman.mark whorf.benjamin_lee hobbes.thomas</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:ac6d080612a4/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.tnr.com/politics/story.html?id=a8c2e4ae-387c-4e0a-b942-1d0a05b0d94d">
    <title>The (Interestingly Accumulated) Wealth of Nations</title>
    <dc:date>2008-02-05T22:31:15+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.tnr.com/politics/story.html?id=a8c2e4ae-387c-4e0a-b942-1d0a05b0d94d</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><dc:subject>economic_history world_history globalization great_transformation findlay.ronald o'rourke.kevin rauchway.eric book_reviews imperialism</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:059dbac7a283/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://crookedtimber.org/2008/02/05/seeing-like-seeing-like-a-state/">
    <title>Crooked Timber » » Seeing Like “Seeing Like a State”</title>
    <dc:date>2008-02-05T22:19:29+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://crookedtimber.org/2008/02/05/seeing-like-seeing-like-a-state/</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Sometimes, formal knowledge will indeed enhance the power of the central observer, the authority gazing down on its society. But there is no necessary reason why this should be so."
]]></description>
<dc:subject>great_transformation social_life_of_the_mind the_public_and_its_problems use_of_knowledge_in_society farrell.henry brewer.john scott.james_c.</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:287a114896c8/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://archaeoastronomy.wordpress.com/2008/01/28/ufos-versus-the-rainbow-serpents/">
    <title>UFOs versus the Rainbow Serpents « Archaeoastronomy</title>
    <dc:date>2008-01-28T18:00:26+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://archaeoastronomy.wordpress.com/2008/01/28/ufos-versus-the-rainbow-serpents/</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Or: X-files in the outback.
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<item rdf:about="http://delong.typepad.com/sdj/2008/01/why-should-econ.html">
    <title>Why Should Economists Study Economic History? (DeLong)</title>
    <dc:date>2008-01-26T02:05:29+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://delong.typepad.com/sdj/2008/01/why-should-econ.html</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Brad reflects on the start of his economic history course; and also on the place of economics and scientific progress in modern history, and the reciprocity between history and social science
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<dc:subject>economics economic_history historiography historical_explanation great_transformation historical_materialism delong.brad</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://thphil.phil-fak.uni-duesseldorf.de/index.php/article/articleview/362/1/53/">
    <title>Clash of Civilizations? An Evolution-Theoretic and Empirical Investigation of Huntington's Theses (Schurz)</title>
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    <link>http://thphil.phil-fak.uni-duesseldorf.de/index.php/article/articleview/362/1/53/</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Looks interesting, but only superficially skimmed; to read
]]></description>
<dc:subject>schurz.gerhard civilizations great_transformation globalization debunking huntington.samuel</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.johnclute.co.uk/word/?p=15">
    <title>Fantastika in the World Storm (John Clute)</title>
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    <link>http://www.johnclute.co.uk/word/?p=15</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Here is what I’m going to do: I’m going to argue that story tellers and readers have seen our planet — ever since it first became visible around 1750 — primarily through the huge range of tales of the fantastic that I’m here calling fantastika."
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<item rdf:about="http://www.powells.com/review/2007_12_03.html">
    <title>Robert Solow reviews Gregory Clark's _A Farewell to Alms: A Brief Economic History of the World_</title>
    <dc:date>2007-12-06T13:59:43+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.powells.com/review/2007_12_03.html</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["he has built a very heavy structure on a very narrow base."
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<dc:subject>book_reviews clark.gregory solow.robert economic_history farewell_to_alms great_transformation new_york_review_of_each_others_books</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.uark.edu/depts/comminfo/cambridge/ancients.html">
    <title>The Liberty of Ancients Compared with that of Moderns (Constant, 1816)</title>
    <dc:date>2007-11-25T03:02:00+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.uark.edu/depts/comminfo/cambridge/ancients.html</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><dc:subject>defenses_of_liberalism liberty french_revolution great_transformation ancient_history historical_materialism constant.benjamin</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.ucpress.edu/books/pages/9990.html">
    <title>Japan in Print</title>
    <dc:date>2007-11-14T20:03:40+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.ucpress.edu/books/pages/9990.html</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><dc:subject>to:NB books:noted early_modern_world_history Japan great_transformation</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:323a02310134/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/reprint/318/5849/394.pdf">
    <title>Genetically Capitalist? (Samuel Bowles reviews Gregory Clark in _Science_)</title>
    <dc:date>2007-10-27T19:57:00+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/reprint/318/5849/394.pdf</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Making the obvious points that (1) his Malthusian mechanisms were at work in a lot of places, not just England, and (2) even if you take the heritability of personality traits at face value, it's very weak
]]></description>
<dc:subject>bowles.samuel clark.gregory farewell_to_alms cultural_transmission evolutionary_economics inequality economic_history great_transformation</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.santafe.edu/~bowles/clark.pdf">
    <title>Sam Bowles on Gregory Clark: background memo</title>
    <dc:date>2007-10-27T19:54:56+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.santafe.edu/~bowles/clark.pdf</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Some supporting details for Bowles's review
]]></description>
<dc:subject>bowles.samuel clark.gregory farewell_to_alms cultural_transmission evolutionary_economics inequality economic_history great_transformation</dc:subject>
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