Guns, Sails, and Empires
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Read on Hacker News…ne of those books that just cranks your brain open. There is so much new stuff in it. Or at least, stuff that was new when it was published in the 1960s. Carlo Cipolla's Guns, Sails, and Empires is a close second. His Clocks and Culture is also very good; the prologue is probably the best 21 page summary of the history of western technology that you could find anywhere.
Read on Hacker NewsCarlo Cipolla was a great historian. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlo_Maria_Cipolla I particularly recommend Guns, Sails, and Empires and Clocks and Culture .
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