"Power and Plenty will probably remain the textbook for understanding the relationship between history and economics for several decades. A helpful and up-to date synthesis of the current literature."
"An incredibly useful re-examination of inherited Euro-centric conceptions of progress, nationhood and modernity, and a detailed examination of globalisation in the 19th century."
"Good, but one should understand that political theory is a prophylactic serving to help one see the world from many viewpoints and look sceptically any theory claiming universal truth."
"...As will Isaiah Berlin, in addition to exploring writers such as De Maistre and Vico which are mostly ignored by historians and political theorists ."
"Want the insights of post-modernism without the tediousness of reading Foucault and Derrida? Read Illich especially deschooling society and medical nemesis!"
"Rather hackneyed overall narrative but fascinating individual case studies which serve as an antidote to the a-historical mainstream coverage of the middle east."
