Episode · Modern Wisdom · 2023-09-02
Books mentioned on The Shocking Lessons Of History Everyone Has Forgotten - Niall Ferguson - #675
Niall Ferguson is a historian, senior fellow at the Hoover Institution & Stanford University and an author. We often hear that history tends to repeat itself.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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A people's tragedy
Discussed“Orlando 5g's wrote an excellent history of the Russian Revolution called a people's tragedy”
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The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, by Edward Gibbon. Vol. 2. [-3-4].
The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire is a multi-volume historical masterpiece by Edward Gibbon that chronicles the trajectory of Roman civilization from its height to its collapse.
Discussed“so Gibbon's great Decline and fall of the Roman Empire covers a millennium”
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“The” History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon is a classic multi-volume historical masterpiece chronicling the trajectory of Roman civilization from its height to its eventual collapse.
Discussed“so Gibbon's great Decline and fall of the Roman Empire covers a millennium”
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Scale
Scale is a comprehensive scientific book by Geoffrey West that explores the universal laws, growth patterns, and scaling phenomena governing biological organisms, cities, and corporations.
Recommended“he did a book called scale that everybody should read”
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Waverley; or, 'Tis sixty years since ...
Discussed“and uh you know Walter Scott writes a great novel perhaps the greatest historical novel Waverly really addressing this question how on Earth does Scotland go from being Afghanistan to being Athens in this really short space of time”
