Subscriber-Requested Reading List

You ask in posts and mailbags, we oblige!

Here you can find readings and authors to explore in various subjects as solicited by subscribers.

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Kremlinology

• Franz Borkenau

Macrohistory

• Marshal Hodgeson, The Venture of Islam: Conscience and History in a World Civilization, Vols 1-3. (U Chicago, 1974)

• William McNeil, The Pursuit of Power: Technology, Armed Force, and Society since A.D. 1000 (U Chicago, 1984)

• Hans Morgenthau, Politics Among Nations, 6th ed. (McGraw-Hill, 1985)

• Charles Tilly, Coercion, Capital, and European States, AD 990–1992 (Basil Blackwell, 1990)

  • Danny recommends this and more work in historical sociology

• Emmanuel Vollerstein, any of his work in systems theory

Marxism

• Karl Kautsky

• Works on SPD and German social democracy

  • Daniel Bessner, Democracy in Exile: Hans Speier and the Rise of the Defense Intellectual (Cornell University, 2018) - Chapter 1