Reading Lists

The General Crisis of the 17th Century Turchin&rsquo;s Secular Cycles as background. Fischer&rsquo;s The Great Wave as monetary history. Stone&rsquo;s The Crisis of the Aristocracy for the effects on elites in England, and some interesting time-series; here&rsquo;s one on the inflation of Peerage titles, re elite competition: Bitton&rsquo;s The French Nobility in Crisis for the same stuff in…