Subject archive: history

Below is a list of all book reviews under the subject heading of history published to date in reverse chronological order. Click here to return to the subject menu or click here to return to the list of all reviews.

  1. Duel Without End: Mankind’s Battle with Microbes
  2. The Invention of Green Colonialism
  3. The World the Plague Made: The Black Death and the Rise of Europe
  4. The Complete History of the Black Death (Second Edition)
  5. The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
  6. Being a Human: Adventures in 40,000 Years of Consciousness
  7. Plagues upon the Earth: Disease and the Course of Human History
  8. The European Guilds: An Economic Analysis
  9. Escape from Rome: The Failure of Empire and the Road to Prosperity
  10. Limits: Why Malthus Was Wrong and Why Environmentalists Should Care
  11. The Technology Trap: Capital, Labor, and Power in the Age of Automation
  12. How History Gets Things Wrong: The Neuroscience of Our Addiction to Stories
  13. The Science of Roman History: Biology, Climate, and the Future of the Past
  14. Malthus: The Life and Legacies of an Untimely Prophet
  15. The Frayed Atlantic Edge: A Historian’s Journey from Shetland to the Channel
  16. Gods and Robots: Myths, Machines, and Ancient Dreams of Technology
  17. Upheaval: How Nations Cope with Crisis and Change
  18. The Human Swarm: How Our Societies Arise, Thrive, and Fall
  19. Energy: A Human History
  20. Erebus: The Story of a Ship
  21. An Essay on the Principle of Population: The 1803 Edition
  22. The Great Leveler: Violence and the History of Inequality from the Stone Age to the Twenty-First Century
  23. Never Out of Season: How Having the Food We Want When We Want it Threatens Our Food Supply and Our Future