Swarthout’s Reviews > The Unbound Prometheus: Technological Change and Industrial Development in Western Europe from 1750 to the Present > Status Update

accounting of metallurgical development of various european countries is not that that exciting to read about. its not as bad a capital volume 2 but pretty sloggish

"The history of commercial and civil law in the West is in large measure the story of the progressive adaptation of the usages of an agrarian, community-centred, tradition-bound society to the requirements of an industrial, individualistic, and rational—hence mobile—capitalism."