Ben Landau-Taylor Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
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Investigating power, society, and industry. Research at @bismarckanlys. Please don't get your ought all over my is.
Politics and the English Language
George OrwellBen Landau-Taylor@packyM @jasoncrawford George Orwell, Politics and the English Language. "If you simplify your English, you are freed from the worst follies of orthodoxy ... and when you make a stupid remark its stupidity will be obvious, even to yourself." https://t.co/oaN0GNmrFu
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The Invasion of Europe By the Barbarians
J. B. BuryBen Landau-TaylorNow here's a sentence you can only write in between the World Wars (J B Bury, The Invasion of Europe by the Barbarians, 1928) https://t.co/9wtn9H8fSK
Paperback, 2017
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Tragedy and Hope: A History of the World in Our Time
Carroll QuigleyBen Landau-Taylor@wolftivy @NicolasDVillar1 I'm parroting Carroll Quigley on the history of capitalism. The very macro-scale is best described in The Evolution Of Civilizations, and he covers the recent history in somewhat more detail in Tragedy And Hope. (Note he does not provide case studies.) https://t.co/2wuKwlECdl
Paperback, 2014
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The Evolution of Civilizations: An Introduction to Historical Analysis
Carroll QuigleyBen Landau-Taylor@wolftivy @NicolasDVillar1 I'm parroting Carroll Quigley on the history of capitalism. The very macro-scale is best described in The Evolution Of Civilizations, and he covers the recent history in somewhat more detail in Tragedy And Hope. (Note he does not provide case studies.) https://t.co/2wuKwlECdl
Paperback, 1979
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