British economist Geoffrey M. Hodgson argues private property and individual enterprise fueled the Great Enrichment.
Caroline Elkins' book raises an important question for people today, particularly liberals—an issue that Elkins herself sidesteps.
There is an underlying belief that the active presence of a police force of the kind we are familiar with prevents the explosion of crime. But history and modern criminology suggest otherwise.
Sometimes pressure causes breakdowns, but sometimes it causes breakthroughs.
Maybe Rome needed to disintegrate before the West could grow wealthy.
A Stanford historian thinks war is the engine that drives civilization. Is he right?
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