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Selected Works for Deeper Exploration
The following works informed the argument without direct citation. They are listed thematically for readers who wish to pursue specific threads.
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Republican Political Theory. Arendt, Hannah. On Revolution. New York: Viking, 1963. Bailyn, Bernard. The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1967. Wood, Gordon S. The Creation of the American Republic, 1776–1787. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1969. Viroli, Maurizio. Republicanism. New York: Hill and Wang, 2002.
Economic History and Institutional Evolution. Braudel, Fernand. Civilization and Capitalism, 15th–18th Century. 3 vols. New York: Harper & Row, 1981–1984. Greif, Avner. Institutions and the Path to the Modern Economy: Lessons from Medieval Trade. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006. Mokyr, Joel. The Gifts of Athena: Historical Origins of the Knowledge Economy. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2002. Polanyi, Karl. The Great Transformation. New York: Farrar & Rinehart, 1944.
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