World Machines

A Song of Proto-Industrialization

Good example of modernity machine counterfactual

The Business of Enlightenment: A Publishing History of the Encyclopédie, 1775–1800

Microhistory of how the Encyclopédie was produced, distributed, and consumed — business history as intellectual history. CC BY 4.0.

French Passages in Translation: The Business of Enlightenment

All 1,197 French passages from Darnton's The Business of Enlightenment, translated into English with page numbers and chapter/section context. Generated by Claude API from the CC BY PDF.

Robert Hooke's "Cyberpunk" letter to Gottfried Leibniz

Presents Hooke as transition from clocks to locks

City of Fortune

When Asia Was the World

Inventing the Renaissance

Magnificent Rebels

Kingdoms of Faith

Raiders, Rulers, and Traders

The Complete Essays

Ocean of Churn

Empires of the Monsoon

Islamic Gunpowder Empires

Candide

The Invention of Nature

The Courtier and the Heretic

Vijayanagara

Ibn Khaldun: An Intellectual Biography

The Printing Revolution in Early Modern Europe

A Distant Mirror

Monkey King: Journey to the West

Zheng He

Civilization and Capitalism

Giordano Bruno and the Hermetic Tradition

Revolt of the Masses

Revolution in Time

1493

Divine Comedy

Don Quixote

The Chivalric Turn

Deviant Globalization

Venice: A New History

Canterbury Tales

Rousseau and Hobbes

Before European Hegemony

Decameron

The Infidel and the Professor

Slaves on Horses

Majapahit

Utopia

Underground Empire