Industrialism


Hard Times
The Jungle
North and South
War Is a Racket
The Communist Manifesto
The Industrious Revolution: Consumer Behavior and the Household Economy, 1650 to the Present
The Unbound Prometheus: Technological Change and Industrial Development in Western Europe from 1750 to the Present
Shirley
Paper: Paging Through History
The Bone Clocks
Britain Since 1789: A Concise History
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism
Deep Down Dark: The Untold Stories of 33 Men Buried in a Chilean Mine, and the Miracle That Set Them Free
Tree Thieves: Crime and Survival in North America's Woods
Mark Kurlansky
It is always easier to promote war than peace, easier to end the peace than end the war, because peace is fragile and war is durable.
Mark Kurlansky, Nonviolence: Twenty-Five Lessons from the History of a Dangerous Idea

Rollo May
It is important to note that the acquisition of wealth, as the accepted standard of succes, does not refer to increasing material goods for sustenance purposes, or even for the purpose of increasing enjoyment. It refers rather to wealth as a sign of individual power, a proof of achievement and self-worth. Modern economic individualism, though based on belief in the free individual, has resulted in the phenomenon that increasingly large numbers of people have to work on the property (capital) of ...more
Rollo May, The Meaning of Anxiety

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