Longue Duree (Macrohistory)
Discover essential macrohistory books exploring long-term societal change. Featuring Jared Diamond's Collapse and Guns, Germs, and Steel, plus Max Weber's Economy and Society—a curated reading list on the longue duree.
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Economy and Society
by Max Weber
Max Weber's Economy and Society is the greatest sociological treatise written in this century. Published posthumously in Germany in the early 1920s, it has become a constitutive part of the modern sociological imagination.
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The second era of great expansion of the capitalist world-economy, 1730-1840s
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Mercantilism and the consolidation of the European world-economy, 1600-1750
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A History of Private Life, Volume II, Revelations of the Medieval World (History of Private Life)
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Collapse
by Jared M. Diamond
Explores the mysterious collapse of past civilizations - and what this means for our future.