VII. The Renaissance

A. Hispania

1. The Viceroyalty of New Spain
a. Cuba
i. Havana
Basso, Gianni, and Julio César Pérez Hernández. Inside Havana. Ed. Angelika Taschen and Deborah Irmas. Köln, Germany: Taschen, 2006.
Estrada, Alfredo José. Havana: Autobiography of a City. New York City: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007: Ch. 2.
Roberts, W. Adolphe. Havana: The Portrait of a City. New York City: Coward-McCann, 1953: Ch. 2-4.
ii. Other
Sublette, Ned. Cuba and Its Music: From the First Drums to the Mambo. Chicago: Chicago Review Press, 2004: Ch. 5.
b. Nueva Extremadura
Brands, H.W. Lone Star Nation: How a Ragged Army of Volunteers Won the Battle for Texas Independence – and Changed America. New York City: Doubleday, 2004: Ch. 2.
Fehrenbach, T.R. Lone Star: A History of Texas and the Texans, rev. ed. New York City: Da Capo Press, 2000: Ch. 2, 4-5, 36.
Reisner, Marc. Cadillac Desert: The American West and Its Disappearing Water, rev. ed. New York City: Penguin Books, 1993: Ch. 1.
Lynch, Dudley M. The Duke of Duval: The Life & Times of George B. Parr: A Biography. Waco, Texas: Texian Press, 1976: Ch. 2.
Sweet, Alex E., and J. Armoy Knox. On a Mexican Mustang, Through Texas, From the Gulf to the Rio Grande. 1883. Rpt: London: British Library. Historical Prints Editions, 2011: Ch. 16.
Thompson, Karen R., and Jane H. DiGesualdo. Historical Round Rock, Texas. Austin, Texas: Eakin Publications, 1985: Ch. 1.
c. The Philippines
Bergreen, Laurence. Over the Edge of the World: Magellan's Terrifying Circumnavigation of the Globe. New York City: William Morrow, 2003: Ch. 9-10.
Cooley, John K. Unholy Wars: Afghanistan, America, and International Terrorism, 2nd rev. ed. London: Pluto Press, 2002: Ch. 10.
Karnow, Stanley. In Our Image: America’s Empire in the Philippines. 1989. Rpt. New York City: Ballentine Books, 1990: Ch. 2-3.
Seagrave, Sterling. The Marcos Dynasty. New York City: Harper & Row, 1988: Ch. 1.
d. California
Personal Recollections and Observations of General Nelson A. Miles, Embracing a Brief View of the Civil War, or, From New England to the Golden Gate, and the Story of His Indian Campaigns With Comments On the Exploration, Development and Progress of Our Great Western Empire. 1896. Rpt. Lincoln, Neb.: U of Nebraska P, 1992: Ch. 44.
Shinn, Charles Howard. Mining Camps: A Study in American Frontier Government. 1885. Rpt. Gloucester, Mass.: Peter Smith, 1970: Ch. 6-7.
e. Santa Fe de Nuevo México
Lummis, Charles Fletcher. The Land of Poco Tiempo. 1893. Rpt. Charleston, S.C.: BiblioBazaar, 2009: Ch. 1-4, 10-11.
Stowell, Jay S. The Near Side of the Mexican Question. New York City: George H. Doran Co., 1921: Ch. 3.
f. Jamaica
Beckwith, Martha Warren. Black Roadways: A Study of Jamaican Folk Life. 1929. Rpt. New York City: New American Library, 1970: Ch. 1.
Kritzler, Edward. Jewish Pirates of the Caribbean: How a Generation of Swashbuckling Jews Carved out an Empire in the New World in Their Quest for Treasure, Religious Freedom ̶ and Revenge. London: JR Books, 2009: Ch. 7.
Williams, The Rev. Joseph J. Whisperings of the Caribbean: Reflections of a Missionary. New York City: Benzinger Brothers, 1925: 1, 5-6.
g. Florida
Mowat, Charles Loch. East Florida As a British Province, 1763-1784. 1943. Rpt. Millwood, N.Y.: Kraus Reprint Co., 1974: Ch. 1.
Riley, Edward. The Growth of Florida. Edison, N.J.: Chartwell Books, 2007.
h. Vaqueros
Dobie, J. Frank. The Longhorns. 1941. Rpt. Austin, Texas: U of Texas P, 2010: Ch. 1.
Langmore, Bank, and Ron Tyler. The Cowboy. New York City: Ridge Press/William Morrow and Co., 1975: Ch. 2.
Rollins, Philip Ashton. The Cowboy: His Characteristics, His Equipment, and His Part in the Development of the West, rev. ed. 1936. Rpt. New York City: Skyhorse Publishing, 2011: Ch. 1.
i. Food
Arellano, Gustavo. Taco USA: How Mexican Food Conquered America, rev. ed. New York City: Scribner, 2013: Ch. 1, 6, 13.
Ralat, José R. American Tacos: A History and Guide. Austin, Texas: U of Texas P, 2020: Ch. 3, 6.
j. Other
Adamic, Louis [Alojzij Adamič]. The House in Antigua: A Restoration. New York City: Harper & Bros. Publishers, 1937: Pt. 1.
Bishop, Joseph Bucklin. The Panama Gateway, rev. ed. New York City: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1915: Pt. 1, Ch. 2-3.
Bown, Stephen R. 1494: How a Family Feud in Spain Divided the World in Half. Vancouver, B.C.: Douglas & McIntyre Publishers, 2011: Ch. 8.
Chamberlain, Robert S. The Conquest and Colonization of Honduras, 1502-1550. 1953. Rpt. New York City: Octagon Books, 1966.
Fehrenbach, T.R. Fire and Blood: A History of Mexico, rev. ed. New York City: Da Capo Press, 1995: Ch. 9-12, 14-18.
Fuentes, Carlos. The Buried Mirror: Reflections on Spain and the New World. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1992: Ch. 6.
Gooch, Fanny Chambers. Face to Face With the Mexicans: The Domestic Life, Educational, Social, and Business Ways, Statesmanship and Literature, Legendary and General History of the Mexican People, As Seen and Studied by an American Woman During Seven Years of Intercourse With Them. New York City: Fords, Howard, & Hurlbert, 1887: Ch. 10-11, 14.
Kritzler, Edward. Jewish Pirates of the Caribbean: How a Generation of Swashbuckling Jews Carved out an Empire in the New World in Their Quest for Treasure, Religious Freedom ̶ and Revenge. London: JR Books, 2009: Ch. 2.
Lee, Martin A. Smoke Signals: A Social History of Marijuana: Medical, Recreational, and Scientific. New York City: Scribner, 2012: Ch. 2.
Morton, Lisa. Trick or Treat: A History of Halloween. London: Reaktion Books, 2012: Ch. 5.
Myth and the History of the Hispanic Southwest: Essays by David J. Weber. Albuquerque, N.M.: U of New Mexico P, 1988: Ch. 1.
Odishelidze, Alexander, and Arthur B Laffer. Pay to the Order of Puerto Rico. Fairfax, Va.: Allegiance Press, 2004: Ch. 15.
Powell, Philip Wayne. Soldiers, Indians & Silver: The Northward Advance of New Spain, 1550-1600. 1952. Rpt. Tempe, Ariz.: Arizona State University. Center for Latin American Studies, 1975.
Preston, Julia, and Sam Dillon. Opening Mexico: The Making of a Democracy. New York City: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2004: Ch. 2.
Riding, Alan. Distant Neighbors: A Portrait of the Mexicans, rev. ed. New York City: Vintage Books, 2000: Ch. 1, 6, 10.
Stowell, Ch. 1, 4.
Taylor, Paul Schuster. An American Frontier: Nueces County, Texas. Chapel Hill, N.C.: U of North Carolina P, 1934: Ch. 2.
Thomas, Hugh. Rivers Of Gold: The Rise of the Spanish Empire, From Columbus to Magellan. New York City: Random House, 2003: Pt. 8, Ch. 34-35.
Wilson-Lee, Edward. The Catalogue of Shipwrecked Books: Christopher Columbus, His Son, and the Quest to Build the World's Greatest Library. 2018. Rpt. New York City: Scribner, 2019: Ch. 6.
2. The Viceroyalty of Peru
Beyond the Revolution: Bolivia Since 1952. Ed. James M. Malloy and Richard S. Thorn. Pittsburgh: U of Pittsburgh P, 1971.
Carver, Robert. Paradise With Serpents: Travels in the Lost World of Paraguay. London: Harper Perennial, 2007: Ch. 7.
Grann, David. The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon. 2009. Rpt. New York City: Vintage Departures, 2010: Ch. 15.
Kirchner, Paul. The Deadliest Men: The World's Deadliest Combatants Through the Ages. Boulder, Colo.: Paladin Press, 2001: Ch. 33.
Miller, Tom. The Panama Hat Trail, rev. ed. Washington, D.C.: Adventure Press/National Geographic, 2001: Ch. 30.
3. The Inquisition
Birmingham, Stephen. The Grandees: America's Sephardic Elite. 1971. Rpt. Guilford, Conn.: Lyons Press, 2016: Ch. 7.
Kamen, Henry. The Spanish Inquisition: A Historical Revision, 3rd rev. ed. New Haven, Conn.: Yale UP, 2014: Ch. 2-14.
Liebman, Seymour. New World Jewry, 1493-1825: Requiem for the Forgotten. New York City: Ktav Publishing House, 1982: Ch. 3.
Walsh, William Thomas. Characters of the Inquisition. 1940. Rpt. Whitefish, Mont.: Kessinger Publications, 2007: Ch. 6-7.
4. The Mezzogiorno
Collison-Morley, Lacy. Naples Through the Centuries. New York City: Frederick A. Stokes Co. Publishers, 1924: Ch. 4-5.
Lewis, Norman. The Honored Society: A Searching Look at the Mafia. New York City: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1964: Ch. 2.
Norwich, John Julius [John Julius Cooper]. Sicily: An Island at the Crossroads of History. New York City: Random House, 2015: Ch. 9.
5. Ferdinand Magellan
Bergreen, Over the Edge of the World, Ch. 1-8, 11-15.
Bown, Ch. 7.
6. Darío Fernández-Morera
a. "Cervantes and Islam: A Contemporary Analogy." Cervantes y Su Mundo, Vol. III. Kassel, Germany: Edition Reichenberger, 2005: 123-166.
b. "Cervantes and Economic Theory." Literature & the Economics of Liberty: Spontaneous Order in Culture. Ed. Paul A. Cantor and Stephen Cox. Auburn, Ala.: Ludwig von Mises Institute, 2009: Ch. 2.
7. Kamen
a. Empire: How Spain Became a World Power, 1492-1763. 2002. Rpt. New York City: HarperCollins Publishers, 2003: Ch. 1-8, 11.
b. The Duke of Alba. New Haven, Conn.: Yale UP, 2004.
8. Other
Amirell, Stefan Eklöf. Pirates of Empire: Colonisation and Maritime Violence in Southeast Asia. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge UP, 2019: Ch. 1-3.
Bown, Ch. 1-2, 6.
Eddy, Paul et al. The Cocaine Wars. New York City: W.W. Norton & Co., 1988: Ch. 1.
Elliott, J.H. The Count-Duke of Olivares: A Statesman in an Age of Decline. New Haven, Conn.: Yale UP, 1986: Ch. 1-3.
Fuentes, The Buried Mirror, Ch. 7-8.
Hancock. America Before: The Key to Earth’s Lost Civilization. New York City: St. Martin's Press, 2019: Ch. 11.
Hume, Martin A.S. Spain: Its Greatness and Decay (1479-1788), 2nd rev. ed. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge UP, 1913: Ch. 1-6.
Kritzler, Ch. 3.
L’Amour, Louis [Louis LaMoore]. Fair Blows the Wind. New York City: E.P. Dutton, 1978: Ch. 1-6, 24.
Morales, Ed. The Latin Beat: The Rhythms and Roots of Latin Music From Bossa Nova to Salsa and Beyond. New York City: Da Capo Press, 2003: Ch. 1, 7.
Neuman, William. Things Are Never So Bad That They Can't Get Worse: Inside the Collapse of Venezuela. New York City: St. Martin's Press, 2022: Ch. 4.
Ortiz, Antonio Domínguez, Concha Herrero, and José A. Godoy. Resplendence of the Spanish Monarchy: Renaissance Tapestries and Armor From the Patrimonio Nacional. Ed. John P. O'Neill. Trans. Margaret Sayers Peden et al. New York City: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1991.
Pérez-Reverte, Arturo. The Sun Over Breda. 1998. Rpt. New York City: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 2007.
Pride, Capt. W.F. The History of Fort Riley. 1926. Rpt. Fort Riley, Kan.: U.S. Cavalry Museum and Fort Riley Historical and Archaeology Society, 1987: Ch. 1.
Ray, Philip A. South Wind Red: Our Hemispheric Crisis. Chicago: Henry Regnery Co., 1962: Ch. 2.
Sale, Kirkpatrick. The Conquest of Paradise: Christopher Columbus and the Columbian Legacy. New York City: Alfred A. Knopf, 1990: Ch. 2.
Shinn, Ch. 5.
Stromberg, Joseph R. "English Enclosures and Soviet Collectivization: Two Instances of an Anti-Peasant Mode of Development." Agorist Quarterly Fall 1995: 31-44.
Sublette. The World That Made New Orleans: From Spanish Silver to Congo Square. Chicago: Lawrence Hill Books, 2008: Ch. 3.
Thomas, Pt. 1, 3-7, 9-10, Appendix A, C.
Watner, Carl. "All Mankind is One: The Libertarian Tradition in Sixteenth Century Spain." Journal of Libertarian Studies Summer 1987: 293-309.
Wells, Colin. A Brief History of History: Great Historians and the Epic Quest to Explain the Past. Guilford, Conn.: The Lyons Press, 2008: Ch. 8.
Wilson-Lee, Ch. 9-17.
Woods, Thomas E. Jr. How the Catholic Church Built Western Civilization. Washington, D.C.: Regnery Publishing, 2005: Ch. 7.

B. The Anglosphere

1. The Playwrights
a. William Shakespeare
Auchincloss, Louis. Motiveless Malignity. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1969.
Cantor. Shakespeare: Hamlet, rev. ed. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge UP, 2004.
Johnson, Paul. Creators: From Chaucer and Dürer to Picasso and Disney. New York City: HarperCollins Publishers, 2006: Ch. 3.
Phillips, Arthur. The Tragedy of Arthur. New York City: Random House, 2011.
Shapiro, James. Contested Will: Who Wrote Shakespeare? New York City: Simon & Schuster, 2010.
Woollcott, Alexander. Shouts and Murmurs: Echoes of a Thousand and One First Nights. New York City: The Century Co., 1922: Ch. 8.
Yates, Frances. The Occult Philosophy in the Elizabethan Age. 1979. Rpt. London: Routledge Classics, 2001: Ch. 12, 14-15.
b. Others
Cantor. "In Defense of the Marketplace: Spontaneous Order in Jonson's 'Bartholomew Fair.' " Literature & the Economics of Liberty, Ch. 3.
Ford, Ford Madox [Joseph Leopold Ford Madox Hueffer]. The March of Literature: From Confucius' Day to Our Own. 1938. Rpt. Normal, Ill.: Dalkey Archive Press, 1998: Vol. II, Pt. 1, Ch. 1.
Yates, Ch. 11, 13.
2. The Tudor Dynasty
a. Elizabeth I
Johnson. Elizabeth I: A Study in Power and Intellect. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1974.
Newman, Patrick. Cronyism: Liberty versus Power in Early America, 1607-1849. Auburn, Ala.: Mises Institute, 2021: Ch. 1.
b. Other
Hutchinson, Robert. House of Treason: The Rise and Fall of a Tudor Dynasty. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2009.
Wilson, Derek. A Brief History of Henry VIII: Reformer and Tyrant. London: Robinson/Running Press, 2009.
3. Edward Coke
Barry, John M. Roger Williams and the Creation of the American Soul: Church, State, and the Birth of Liberty. New York City: Viking, 2012: Ch. 2.
Rothbard, History of Economic Thought, Vol. I, Pt. 10, Ch. 3.
4. Francis Bacon
Barry, Ch. 3.
Rothbard, History of Economic Thought, Vol. I, Pt. 10, Ch. 6-7.
5. John Dee
Jones. The Jewish Revolutionary Spirit and Its Impact on World History. Sound Bend, Ind.: Fidelity Press, 2008: Ch. 10.
Keith, Jim. Saucers of the Illuminati, rev. ed. 1999. Rpt. Kempton, Ill.: Adventures Unlimited Press, 2004: Ch. 11.
Yates, Ch. 8-9.
6. Ireland
Adams, James. The Financing of Terror: The PLO, IRA, Red Brigades, and M-19, and Their Money Supply. New York City: Simon and Schuster, 1986: Ch. 6.
Collingham, Lizzie. The Taste of Empire: How Britain’s Quest for Food Shaped the Modern World. New York City: Basic Books, 2017: Ch. 2.
Johnson. Ireland: Land of Troubles: A History From the Twelfth Century to the Present Day. 1980. Rpt. Chicago: Academy Chicago Publishers, 1984: Ch. 2.
L'Amour, Fair Blows the Wind, Ch. 7, 33.
7. Laurence Gardner
a. Realm of the Ring Lords: The Ancient Legacy of the Ring and the Grail. 2000. Rpt. London: Element, 2004: Ch. 14-15.
b. The Shadow of Solomon: The Lost Secret of the Freemasons Revealed. London: HarperElement, 2005: Ch. 15.
8. Ford Madox Hueffer
a-i. The Fifth Queen: And How She Came to Court. London: Alston Rivers, 1906.
a-ii. Privy Seal: His Last Venture. 1907. Rpt. San Francisco: Mellen Research UP, 1999.
b. The Cinque Ports: A Historical and Descriptive Record. Edinburgh, U.K.: William Blackwood and Sons, 1900: Ch. 7, 11.
c. The Spirit of the People: An Analysis of the English Mind. 1907. Rpt. London: Duckworth & Co., 1915: Ch. 3.
9. L'Amour
a. The Sackett Series
i. The Sackett Companion: A Personal Guide to the Sackett Novels. New York City: Bantam Books, 1988.
ii. Sackett’s Land. 1974. Rpt. New York City: Bantam Books, 1982: Ch. 1-6, 18-21.
iii. To the Far Blue Mountains, rev. ed. New York City: Bantam Books, 2023: Ch. 1-10, 20-21.
b. Fair Blows the Wind, Ch. 7-23, 28.
10. Stephen Leacock
a. The Dawn of Canadian History: A Chronicle of Aboriginal Canada and the Coming of the White Man. 1914. Rpt. Breinigsville, Pa.: Nabu Press, 2011: Ch. 5.
b. Adventurers of the Far North: A Chronicle of the Frozen Seas. 1914. Rpt. Toronto: U of Toronto P, 1964: Ch. 1.
11. Rothbard
a. Conceived in Liberty, Vol. I: A New Land, A New People: The American Colonies in the 17th Century. 1975. Rpt. Auburn, Ala.: Ludwig von Mises Institute, 1999: Ch. 2.
b. History of Economic Thought, Vol. I, Pt. 10, Ch. 1-2, 4-5.
12. Otto J Scott [Otto Scott-Estrella, Jr.]
a. James I: The Fool as King. 1976. Rpt. Vallecito, Calif.: Chalcedon, 2003: Pt. 1-4.
b. The Great Christian Revolution: The Myths of Paganism and Arminianism, rev. ed. Vallecito, Calif.: Chalcedon/Ross House Books, 2014: Pt. 3, Ch. 10.
13. Others
Altick, Richard D. The Scholar-Adventurers, rev. ed. Columbus, Ohio: Ohio State UP, 1987: Ch. 4-5, 14.
Barker, Juliet R.V. England, Arise: The People, the King, and the Great Revolt of 1381. 2014. Rpt. London: Abacus, 2015.
Burk, Kathleen. Old World, New World: Great Britain and America From the Beginning. New York City: Grove Press, 2007: Ch. 1.
Cam, Helen. England Before Elizabeth, rev. ed. New York City: Harper & Row Publishers, 1960: Ch. 15.
Collingham, Ch. 1.
Coote, Stephen. Drake: The Life and Legend of an Elizabethan Hero. 2003. Rpt. New York City: Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press, 2005.
Crime Does Not Pay, Vol. X. Milwaukie, Ore.: Dark Horse Books, 2015.
Evans, M. Stanton. The Theme Is Freedom: Religion, Politics, and the American Tradition. Washington, D.C.: Regnery Publishing, 1994: Ch. 10.
Fletcher, Nichola. Charlemagne's Tablecloth: A Piquant History of Feasting. 2004. Rpt. New York City: St. Martin's Press, 2005: Ch. 25.
Fraser, George MacDonald. The Steel Bonnets: The Story of the Anglo-Scottish Border Reivers. 1971. Rpt. New York City: Skyhorse Publishing, 2008: Ch. 4-52.
Frers, Ernesto. The Templar Pirates: The Secret Alliance to Build the New Jerusalem. 2005. Trans. Ariel Godwin. Rochester, Vt.: Destiny Books, 2007: Ch. 4.
Grant, George. The Dispossessed: Homelessness in America. Fort Worth, Texas: Dominion Press, 1986: Ch. 7.
Grinspoon, Dr. Lester, and James B. Bakalar. Marihuana Reconsidered, 2nd rev. ed. Oakland, Calif.: Quick American Archives, 1994: Ch. 1.
Hazlitt, Henry. Man vs. the Welfare State. 1969. Rpt. Auburn, Ala.: Ludwig von Mises Institute, 2007: Ch. 12.
Kirsch, Jonathan. A History of the End of the World: How the Most Controversial Book in the Bible Changed the Course of Western Civilization. New York City: HarperSanFrancisco, 2006: Ch. 6.
A History of the French in London: Liberty, Equality, Opportunity. Ed. Debra Kelly and Martyn Cornick. London: Institute of Historical Research, 2013: Ch. 1.
Macfarlane, Alan. The Origins of English Individualism: The Family, Property and Social Transition, corr. ed. Oxford, U.K.: Basil Blackwell, 1985: Ch. 3-4, 6-7.
Malcolm, Joyce Lee. Guns and Violence: The English Experience. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard UP, 2002: Ch. 1-2.
McConaughy, John. From Cain to Capone: Racketeering Down the Ages. New York City: Brentano’s, 1931: Ch. 7.
McDougall, Walter A. Freedom Just Around the Corner: A New American History 1585-1828. New York City: HarperCollins, 2004.
Morton, Ch. 2, 6.
North, Gary. Conspiracy in Philadelphia: Origins of the United States Constitution. Harrisonburg, Va.: Dominion Education Ministries, 2004: Ch. 2.
Ostrowski, James. "The Rise and Fall of Jury Nullification." Journal of Libertarian Studies Spring 2001: 89-115.
Phillips, Kevin. American Dynasty: Aristocracy, Fortune and the Politics of Deceit in the House of Bush. New York City: Viking, 2004: Ch. 1.
Pollard, A. F. England Under Protector Somerset: An Essay. 1900. Rpt. New York City: Russell & Russell, 1966.
Rushdoony, Rousas John. This Independent Republic: Studies in the Nature and Meaning of American History. 1963. Rpt. Vallecito, Calif.: Ross House Books, 2001: Ch. 1.
Schwoerner, Lois G. "No Standing Armies!": The Antiarmy Ideology in Seventeenth-Century England. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 1974: Ch. 1.
Strauss, William, and Neil Howe. Generations: The History of America's Future, 1584-2069. New York City: William Morrow, 1991: Ch. 7.
Turchin, Peter, and Sergey A. Nefedov. Secular Cycles. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton UP, 2009: Ch. 3.
Underwood, Oscar W. Drifting Sands of Party Politics. New York City: The Century Co., 1928: Ch. 2.
Watner. “Libertarians and Indians: Proprietary Justice and Aboriginal Land Rights.” Journal of Libertarian Studies Spring 1983: 147-156.

C. Christendom

1. The Roman Catholic Church
a. The Jesuits
Bangert, William V., and Thomas M. McCoog. Jerome Nadal, 1507-1580: Tracking the First Generation of Jesuits. Chicago: Loyola UP, 1992.
Martin, Malachi. The Jesuits: The Society of Jesus and the Betrayal of the Roman Catholic Church. New York City: Linden Press/Simon & Schuster, 1987: Ch. 6-10.
Maryks, Robert Aleksander. The Jesuit Order As a Synagogue of Jews: Jesuits of Jewish Ancestry and Purity-of-Blood Laws in the Early Society of Jesus. Leiden, Netherlands: Brill, 2010: Ch. 2-4.
Rothbard, History of Economic Thought, Vol. I, Pt. 4, Ch. 10.
b. The Scholastics
Chafuen, Alejandro A. Faith and Liberty: The Economic Thought of the Late Scholastics, rev. ed. Lanham, Md.: Lexington Books, 2003: Ch. 3-12.
De Roover, Raymond. Business, Banking, and Economic Thought in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe. Ed. Julius Kirshner. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1974: Ch. 9, 11.
Grice-Hutchinson, Marjorie. Early Economic Thought in Spain, 1177-1740. 1978. Rpt. Indianapolis: Liberty Fund, 2015: Ch. 5.
Rothbard, Murray. N. An Austrian Perspective on the History of Economic Thought, Vol. I: Economic Thought Before Adam Smith. 1995. Rpt. Auburn, Ala.: Ludwig von Mises Institute, 2006: Pt. 5, Ch. 2-9.
c. The Holy See
Frattini, Eric. The Entity: Five Centuries of Secret Vatican Espionage, rev. ed. Trans. Dick Cluster. New York City: St. Martin's Press, 2008: Ch. 1-3.
Johnson et al. The Papacy. 1997. Rpt. New York City: Barnes & Noble Books, 2005: Ch. 5-6.
Norwich. Absolute Monarchs: A History of the Papacy. 2011. Rpt. New York City: Random House Trade Paperbacks, 2012: Ch. 17-21.
Seldes, George. The Vatican: Yesterday – Today –Tomorrow. New York City: Harper & Brothers, 1934: Ch. 6, 9-10, 13, 21.
Wilson-Lee, Ch. 8.
d. Other
Catholicism and Politics in Communist Societies. Ed. Pedro Ramet. Durham, N.C.: Duke UP, 1990: Ch. 9.
Dickie, John. Delizia!: The Epic History of the Italians and Their Food. 2007. Rpt. New York City: Free Press, 2008: Ch. 5, 7.
Jenkins, Philip. The New Anti-Catholicism: The Last Acceptable Prejudice. New York City: Oxford UP, 2003: Ch. 9.
Montanelli, Indro, and Roberto Gervaso. Italy in the Golden Centuries. 1967. Trans. Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi. Chicago: Henry Regnery Co., 1969: Ch. 5, 8, 13-15, 24.
Rushdoony. Christianity and the State. Vallecito, Calif.: Ross House Books, 1986: Ch. 27, 38.
Steinmetz, Greg. The Richest Man Who Ever Lived: The Life and Times of Jacob Fugger. New York City: Simon & Schuster, 2015: Ch. 7.
Walsh, Ch. 5.
Wilson-Lee, Ch. 7.
2. The Protestants
a. Jones
i. Degenerate Moderns: Modernity as Rationalized Sexual Misbehavior. San Francisco: Ignatius, 1993: Ch. 9.
ii. The Jewish Revolutionary Spirit, Ch. 8-9.
b. Rothbard
i. Conceived in Liberty, Vol. I, Ch. 17.
ii. History of Economic Thought, Vol. I, Pt. 5, Ch. 1-4, 9-10.
c. Rushdoony
i. The One and the Many: Studies in the Philosophy of Order and Ultimacy. 1971. Rpt. Vallecito, Calif.: Chalcedon/Ross House Books, 1997: Ch. 10.
ii. Great Christian Revolution, Pt. 2, Ch. 2, 4-7.
iii. An Informed Faith: The Position Papers of R.J. Rushdoony, Vol. III: Heresies & Philosophies; Statism & Liberty, Ch. 177-178, 180.
d. Others
Blumenfeld, Samuel L. Is Public Education Necessary?, rev. ed. 1985. Rpt. Powder Springs, Ga.: American Vision, 2011: Ch. 2.
Bramley, William. The Gods of Eden: A New Look at Human History, rev. ed. 1990. Rpt. New York City: Avon Books, 1990: Ch. 22.
Demaris, Ovid [Ovide E. Desmarais]. Brothers in Blood: The International Terrorist Network. New York City: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1977: Pt. 5.
Fuller, Graham E. A World Without Islam. New York City: Little, Brown and Co., 2010: Ch. 6.
Gregory, Brad S. Rebels in the Ranks: Martin Luther, the Reformation, and the Conflicts That Continue to Shape Our World. New York City: HarperOne, 2017: Ch. 1-2, 4.
Jackson, Gregory L. Liberalism: Its Causes and Cure: The Poisoning of American Christianity and the Antidote, rev. ed. Springdale, Ark.: Martin Chemnitz Press, 2010: Ch. 6.
North. Was Calvin a Theonomist? Tyler, Texas: Institute for Christian Economics, 1990.
O’Shea, Stephen. Sea of Faith: Islam and Christianity in the Medieval Mediterranean World. New York City: Walker & Co., 2006: Ch. 10.
Reynolds, John Lawrence. Secret Societies: Inside the Freemasons, the Yakuza, Skull and Bones, and the World’s Most Notorious Secret Organizations. 2006. Rpt. New York City: Skyhorse Publishing, 2011: Ch. 10.
Scherger, George Lawrence. The Evolution of Modern Liberty: An Insightful Study of the Birth of American Freedom and How It Spread Overseas. 1904. Rpt. New York City: Skyhorse Publishing, 2014: Ch. 2, 5.
Scott, Otto [Otto Scott-Estrella Jr.]. Great Christian Revolution, Pt. 3, Ch. 2-9.
Vance, Lawrence. The Making of the King James Bible – New Testament, rev. ed. Orlando, Fla.: Vance Publications, 2016.
Viguerie Richard A., and David Franke. America’s Right Turn: How Conservatives Used New and Alternative Media to Take Power. Chicago: Bonus Books, 2004: Ch. 1.
Wenger, John Christian. Glimpses of Mennonite History and Doctrine, rev. ed. 1947. Rpt. Eugene, Ore.: Wipf and Stock Publishers, 2001: Ch. 2-8, 12-14.
3. Jenkins
a. Mystics and Messiahs: Cults and New Religions in American History. New York City: Oxford UP, 2000: Ch. 2.
b. The Lost History of Christianity: The Thousand-Year Golden Age of the Church in the Middle East, Africa, and Asia – and How It Died. New York City: HarperOne, 2008: Ch. 5.
c. The Many Faces of Christ: The Thousand-Year Story of the Survival and Influence of the Lost Gospels. New York City: Basic Books, 2015: Ch. 9.
4. Other
Blumenfeld, Ch. 3.
Casey, Gerald. Freedom’s Progress?: A History of Political Thought. Exeter, U.K.: Imprint Academic, 2017: Ch. 14.
Gregory, Ch. 3.
Holland, Tom. Dominion: The Making of the Western Mind. 2019. Rpt. London: Abacus, 2020: Ch. 10-11.
Moosa, Matti. The Maronites in History. 1986. Rpt. Piscataway, N.J.: Gorgias Press, 2005: Ch. 22-25.
Wilson, Ian. The Shroud, 2nd rev. ed. London: Bantam Press, 2010: Ch. 8, 16-18.

D. The Jews

Dimont, Max I. Jews, God and History, rev. ed. New York City: New American Library, 1994: Ch. 20, 23, 27.
Entine, Jon. Abraham's Children: Race, DNA, and the Identity of the Chosen People. New York City: Grand Central Publishing, 2007: Ch. 10.
Johnson. A History of the Jews. New York City: Harper & Row, 1987: Pt. 4.
Jones. The Jewish Revolutionary Spirit, Ch. 6-7.
Klinghoffer, David. Why the Jews Rejected Christ: The Turning Point in Western History. New York City: 2005: Ch. 7.
Liebman, Seymour. New World Jewry, 1493-1825: Requiem for the Forgotten. New York City: Ktav Publishing House, 1982: Ch. 1-2, 4-8, Appendix A-E.
Weyl, Nathaniel. The Jew in American Politics. New Rochelle, N.Y.: Arlington House, 1968: Ch. 3.

E. The Collectivists

Gray, Alexander. The Socialist Tradition: Moses to Lenin, corr. ed. London: Longmans, Green & Co., 1947: Ch. 3.
Greenberg, David F. The Construction of Homosexuality. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1988: Ch. 10.
Jones, Jewish Revolutionary Spirit, Ch. 5.
Robertson, Michael. The Last Utopians: Four Late Nineteenth Century Visionaries and Their Legacy. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton UP, 2018: Ch. 1.
Rothbard, History of Economic Thought, Pt. 5, Ch. 5.
Shafarevich, Igor. The Socialist Phenomenon. 1975. Trans. William Tjalsma. New York City: Harper & Row Publishers, 1980: Ch. 3.
Steinmetz, Ch. 10-11.
The Twelve-Year Sentence: Radical Views of Compulsory Schooling. Ed. William F. Rickenbacker. 1974. Rpt. San Francisco: Fox & Wilkes, 1999.
Watson, George A. The Lost Literature of Socialism, rev. ed. Cambridge, U.K.: The Lutterworth Press, 2010: Ch. 3.

F. France

1. North American Explorers
a. Stephen Leacock
i. The Mariner of St. Malo: A Chronicle of the Voyages of Jacques Cartier. 1914. Rpt. Toronto: U of Toronto P, 1964.
ii. The Boy I Left Behind Me. 1947. Rpt. London: Hesperides Press, 2006: Pt. 2, Ch. 9.
b. Other
Pride, Ch. 2.
Woodford, Frank B., and Arthur M. Woodford. All Our Yesterdays: A Brief History of Detroit. Detroit: Wayne State UP, 1969: Ch. 2.
2. Turchin
a. War and Peace and War: The Life Cycles of Imperial Nations. New York City: Pi Press, 2006: Ch. 9.
b. Secular Cycles. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton UP, 2009: Ch. 5.
3. Other
Baring-Gould, Sabine. A Book of the Pyrenees. London: Methuen & Co., 1907: Ch. 3, 6, 14.
Bernstein, Hilary J. Between Crown and Community: Politics and Civic Culture in Sixteenth-Century Poitiers. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell UP, 2004.
De la Boétie, Éttiene. The Politics of Obedience: The Discourse of Voluntary Servitude, rev. ed. Trans. Harry Kurz. 1997. Rpt. Auburn, Ala.: Mises Institute, 2008.
De Marenches, Count Alexandre, and David A.Andelman. The Fourth World War: Diplomacy and Espionage in the Age of Terrorism. New York City: William Morrow and Co., 1992: Ch. 2.
Discovery and Empire: The French in the South Seas. Ed. John West-Sooby. Adelaide, S.A.: U of Adelaide P, 2013.
Forster, Robert. The House of Saulx-Tavanes: Versailles and Burgundy, 1700-1830. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins Press, 1971: Ch. 1.
Gordon, Mel. Horizontal Collaboration: The Erotic World of Paris, 1920-1946. Port Townsend, Wash.: Feral House, 2015: Ch. 1.
Hancock, and Robert Bauval. The Master Game: Unmasking the Secret Rulers of the World, rev. ed. New York City: Disinformation Co., 2011: Ch. 17.
Henshall, Nicholas. The Myth of Absolutism: Change and Continuity in Early Modern European Monarchy. London: Longman, 1992: Ch. 1.
Kamp, David. The United States of Arugula: How We Became a Gourmet Nation. New York City: Broadway Books, 2006: Ch. 2.
L'Amour, Fair Blows the Wind, Ch. 26.
McGowan, David. Programmed to Kill: The Politics of Serial Murder. New York City: iUniverse, 2004: Ch. 22.
Middleton, William. Double Vision: The Unerring Eye of Art World Avatars Dominique and John de Menil. New York City: Alfred A. Knopf, 2018: Ch. 3.
Norwich. A History of France. New York City: Atlantic Monthly Press, 2018: Ch. 6-10.
Rothbard, History of Economic Thought, Pt. 4, Ch. 11; Pt. 6, Ch. 7-10.

G. Dar al-Islam

1. The Ottoman Empire
a. Jerusalem
Cline, Eric H. Jerusalem Besieged: From Ancient Canaan to Modern Israel. Ann Arbor, Mich.: U of Michigan P, 2004: Ch. 7.
Montefiore, Simon Sebag. Jerusalem: The Biography. New York City: Alfred A. Knopf, 2011: Ch. 31-32.
b. Other
Baran, Zeyno. Torn Country: Turkey Between Secularism and Islamism. Stanford, Calif.: Hoover Institution Press, 2010: Ch. 1.
Barton, James L. Daybreak in Turkey. Boston: Pilgrim Press, 1908: Ch. 1.
Cox, Samuel S. Diversions of a Diplomat in Turkey. 1887. Rpt. New York City: Elibron Classics, 2005: Ch. 10, 13.
Hourani, Albert. Arabic Thought in the Liberal Age, 1798-1939, 2nd rev. ed. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge UP, 1983: Ch. 2.
Markham, R.H. Tito’s Imperial Communism. Chapel Hill, N.C.: U of North Carolina P, 1947: Ch. 2.
Mazower, Mark. Salonica, City of Ghosts: Christians, Muslims and Jews, 1430-1950. 2004. Rpt. London: Harper Perennial, 2016: Ch. 1-3.
Sykes, Mark. The Caliphs' Last Heritage: A Short History of the Turkish Empire. 1915. Rpt. New York City: Arno Press, 1973: Pt. 1, Ch. 27.
Theodoracopulos, Taki. The Greek Upheaval: Kings, Demogogues and Bayonets. London: Stacey International, 1976: Ch. 6.
2. Central Asia
Lieven, Anatol. Pakistan: A Hard Country. New York City: PublicAffairs, 2011: Ch. 2, 9.
Rashid, Ahmed. Descent Into Chaos: The United States and the Failure of Nation Building in Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Central Asia. 2008. Rpt. London: Penguin Books, 2009: Ch. 1.
3. Other
Anderson, R. C. Naval Wars in the Levant, 1559-1853. 1952. Rpt. Mansfield Centre, Conn.: Martino Publishing, 2005: Ch. 1-3.
Armstrong, Karen. Islam: A Short History, rev. ed. New York City: The Modern Library, 2002: Ch. 4.
Fregosi, Paul. Jihad in the West: Muslim Conquests From the 7th to the 21st Centuries. Amherst, N.Y.: Prometheus Books, 1998: Ch. 39-52.
Hourani. A History of the Arab Peoples. Cambridge, Mass.: The Belknap Press of Harvard UP, 1991: Ch. 13-14.
Mamdani, Mahmood. Saviours and Survivors: Darfur, Politics and the War on Terror. Cape Town, South Africa: HSRC Press, 2009: Ch. 4.
Margolis, Eric S. American Raj: Liberation or Domination? Toronto: Key Porter Books, 2008: Ch. 12.
Milani, Abbas. The Myth of the Great Satan: A New Look at America's Relations with Iran. Stanford, Calif.: Hoover Institution Press, 2010: Ch. 4.
Morgan, Ted [Sanche Armand Gabriel de Gramont]. My Battle of Algiers: A Memoir. New York City: Smithsonian Books/Collins, 2005: Ch. 1.
Norwich. The Middle Sea: A History of the Mediterranean. 2007. Rpt. London: The Folio Society, 2010: Ch. 15.
Oren, Michael B. [Michael Bornstein]. Power, Faith and Fantasy: America and the Middle East: 1776 to the Present, 2nd rev. ed. New York City: W.W. Norton & Co., 2011: Ch. 1.
Peters, Joan. From Time Immemorial: The Origins of the Arab-Jewish Conflict Over Palestine. 1984. Rpt. Chicago: JKAP, 2002: Ch. 9.
Posner, Gerald L. Secrets of the Kingdom: The Inside Story of the Saudi-U.S. Connection. New York City: Random House, 2005: Ch. 2.
Pryce-Jones, David. The Closed Circle: An Interpretation of the Arabs, 2nd rev. ed. Chicago: Ivan R. Dee, 2009: Ch. 3.
Sykes, Pt. 1, Ch. 26.
"Warraq, Ibn." The Islam in Islamic Terrorism: The Importance of Beliefs, Ideas, and Ideology. Nashville, Tenn.: New English Review Press, 2017: Ch. 13.

H. Martial Matters

Englebrecht, H.C., and F.C. Hanighen. Merchants of Death: A Study of the International Armaments Industry, corr. ed. London: George Routledge & Sons, 1935: Ch. 16.
McFate, Sean. The Modern Mercenary: Private Armies and What They Mean for World Order. New York City: Oxford UP, 2014: Ch. 6, 9.
Mockler, Anthony. The Mercenaries. 1969. Rpt. Sugarland, Texas: Free Companion Press, 1981: Ch. 3.

I. Venice

1. Architecture
Monicelli, Francesco, and Cesare Gerolimetto. Villa Venete: The Villa Civilization in the Mainland Dominion. 1987. Rpt. Venice, Italy: Arsenale Editrice, 2013.
Wundram, Manfred, Thomas Pape, and Paolo Marton. Andrea Palladio, 1508-1580: Architect Between the Renaissance and Baroque. 1988. Trans. Fiona Hulse. Köln, F.R.G.: Benedikt Taschen, 1989.
2. Other
Crowley, Roger. City of Fortune: How Venice Ruled the Seas. Rpt. New York City: Random House, 2011: Ch. 14-21.
Madden, Thomas F. Venice: A New History. New York City: Viking, 2012: Ch. 10-11, 13-15.
Montanelli & Gervaso, Ch. 18.
Norwich. A History of Venice. New York City: Alfred A. Knopf, 1982: Ch. 15-42.
Paglia, Camille. Glittering Images: A Journey Through Art From Egypt to Star Wars. New York City: Pantheon Books, 2012: Ch. 9.

J. Russia

1. Clarence A. Manning
a. The Story of the Ukraine. New York City: Philosophical Library, 1947: Ch. 4-5.
b. Ukraine Under the Soviets. New York City: Bookman Associates, 1953: Ch. 25. 2. Turchin
a. War and Peace and War, Ch. 1-2.
b. Secular Cycles. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton UP, 2009: Ch. 8.
2. Others
Andrew, Christopher M., and Oleg Gordievsky. KGB: The Inside Story of Its Foreign Operations From Lenin to Gorbachev. New York City: HarperCollins Publishers, 1990: Ch. 1.
Conquest, Robert. The Harvest of Sorrow: Soviet Collectivization and the Terror-Famine. New York City: Oxford UP, 1986: Ch. 2.
Fuller, Graham E. A World Without Islam. New York City: Little, Brown and Co., 2010: Ch. 8.

K. The Portugese Empire

1. Brazil
Castro, Ruy. Rio de Janeiro: Carnival Under Fire. 2003. Trans. John Gledson. New York City: Bloomsbury, 2004: Ch. 1, 3.
Garfield, Seth. In Search of the Amazon: Brazil, the United States, and the Nature of a Region. Durham, N.C.: Duke UP, 2013: Ch. 1.
McGowan, Chris, and Ricardo Pessanha. The Brazilian Sound: Samba, Bossa Nova, and the Popular Music of Brazil, 2nd rev. ed. Philadelphia: Temple UP, 2009: Ch. 1, 6.
2. Other
Bown, Ch. 3.

L. Byzantium

Gibbon, Edward. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, corr. ed. Ed. David Wormersley. New York City: Penguin Books, 1994: Vol. III, Ch. 70-71.
Grant. Grand Illusions: The Legacy of Planned Parenthood, rev. ed. Franklin, Tenn.: Adroit Press, 1992: Ch. 11.
Montanelli & Gervaso, Ch. 26.
Norwich. Byzantium, Vol. III: The Decline and Fall. New York City: Alfred A. Knopf, 1995: Ch. 22-24.
O'Shea, Ch. 9.

M. The Holy Roman Empire

Heer, Friedrich. The Holy Roman Empire. 1967. Trans. Janet Sondheimer. New York City: Praeger, 1968: Ch. 6-10.
Liske, Dave. The Flint Coney: A Savory History. Charleston, S.C.: American Palate, 2022: Ch. 1.
Montanelli & Gervaso, Ch. 6.
Steinmetz, Ch. 1-6, 8-9, 12.
Thomas, Appendix B.

N. The Rest of Italy

Crime Does Not Pay, Vol. V. Ed. Philip R. Simon. Milwaukie, Ore.: Dark Horse Books, 2013.
Dickie, Delizia!, Ch. 6, 8.
McConaughy, Ch. 6.
Montanelli & Gervaso, Ch. 1, 4, 9, 16-17, 19-23, 25.
Welch, Evelyn. Shopping in the Renaissance: Consumer Cultures in Italy 1400-1600. New Haven, Conn.: Yale UP, 2005.
Wheeler, David Hilton. Brigandage in South Italy, rev. ed. London: Sampson Low, Son, and Marston, 1867: Vol. I, Ch. 8.

O. Arts and Entertainment

1. Visual Arts
a. Painting
Hueffer. Hans Holbein the Younger: A Critical Monograph. London: Duckworth & Co., 1905.
Johnson, Creators, Ch. 2.
Pérez Sánchez, Alfonso E. et al. Jusepe de Ribera, 1591–1652. New York City: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1992.
Schneider, Norbert. The Art of the Still Life: Still Life Painting in the Early Modern Period. 1989. Trans. Hugh Beyer. Cologne, F.R.G.: Taschen, 1990: Ch. 2, 6, 10, 13, 15.
Schütze, Sebastian. Caravaggio: The Complete Works. Trans. Karen Williams. Cologne, Germany: Taschen, 2009: Ch. 1-3.
b. Other
Zöllner, Frank. Leonard da Vinci, 1452-1519: The Complete Paintings and Drawings, 2nd rev. ed. Cologne, Germany: Taschen, 2012.
Zöllner, Christof Thoenes, and Thomas Pöpper. Michelangelo: Complete Works. Trans. K. Williams. Cologne, Germany: Taschen, 2007.
2. Cuisine
Issenberg, Sasha. The Sushi Economy: Globalization and the Making of a Modern Delicacy. New York City: Gotham Books, 2007: Ch. 2, 4.
Serventi, Silvano, and Françoise Sabban. Pasta: The Story of a Universal Food. 2000. Trans. Anthony Shugaar. New York City: Columbia UP, 2002: Ch. 3.
3. Music
Gioia, Ted. Music: A Subversive History. New York City: Basic Books, 2019: Ch. 14.
Wallace, Carol McD. et al. Dance: A Very Social History. New York City: The Metropolitan Museum of Art/Rizzoli, 1986: Ch. 4.
4. Games
a. Golf
Lang, Andrew. "The History of Golf." Hutchinson, Horace G. et al. Golf, 3rd rev. ed. Ed. Henry Charles FitzRoy Somerset, 8th Duke of Beaufort, and Alfred E.T. Watson. London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1902: Ch. 1.
Steinberg, Ted. American Green: The Obsessive Quest for the Perfect Lawn. New York City: W.W. Norton & Co., 2006: Ch. 5.
b. Gambling
Asbury, Herbert. Sucker’s Progress: An Informal History of Gambling in America. 1938. Rpt. New York City: Thunder’s Mouth Press, 2003: Ch. 2.
McManus, James. Cowboys Full: The Story of Poker. New York City: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2009: Ch. 4-5.
5. Other
Ford, Vol. I, Pt. 4, Ch. 2.
Jay, Ricky [Ricky Jay Potash]. Learned Pigs & Fireproof Women. 1986. Rpt. New York City: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1998: Ch. 8, 10.
Montanelli & Gervaso, Ch. 10-11.

P. Conspiracy Theory

1. Joseph P. Farrell
a. The Philosopher’s Stone: Alchemy and the Secret Research for Exotic Matter. Port Townsend, Wash.: Feral House, 2009: Ch. 14.
b. Financial Vipers of Venice: Alchemical Money, Magical Physics, and Banking in the Middle Ages and Renaissance. Port Townsend, Wash.: Feral House, 2010: Ch. 1-2, 5, 8, 11.
c. Transhumanism: A Grimoire of Alchemical Agendas. Port Townsend, Wash.: Feral House, 2011: Ch. 4-5, 10.
2. L. Gardner
a. Bloodline of the Holy Grail: The Hidden Lineage of Jesus Revealed, 2nd rev. ed. Gloucester, Mass.: Fair Winds Press, 2005: Ch. 18.
b. The Magdalene Legacy: The Jesus and Mary Bloodline Conspiracy: Revelations Beyond the Da Vinci Code. 2005. Rpt. San Francisco: Weiser Books, 2007: Ch. 15-17.
3. Livingstone
a. The Dying God: The Hidden History of Western Civilization. Lincoln, Neb.: Writers Club Press, 2000: Ch. 17-18.
b. Terrorism and the Illuminati: A Three Thousand Year History. Charleston, S.C.: BookSurge, 2007: Ch. 27.
c. Black Terror, White Soldiers: Islam, Fascism and the New Age. Scotts Valley, Calif.: Sabilillah Publicatons, 2013: Ch. 6.
d. Transhumanism: The History of a Dangerous Idea. Scotts Valley, Calif.: Sabilillah Publicatons, 2015: Ch. 3.
4. Others
Baigent, Michael, Richard Leigh, and Henry Lincoln. Holy Blood, Holy Grail, 3rd rev. ed. New York City: Delacorte Press, 2005: Ch. 6.
Frers, Ernesto. The Templar Pirates: The Secret Alliance to Build the New Jerusalem. 2005. Trans. Ariel Godwin. Rochester, Vt.: Destiny Books, 2007: Ch. 7, 9-10.
Hancock & Bauval, Ch. 11-12.
Reynolds, Ch. 6.

Q. Mathematics

Ferguson, Kitty. Pythagoras: His Lives and the Legacy of a Rational Universe. London: Icon, 2010: Ch. 16-17.
Martinez, Alberto A. The Cult of Pythagoras: Math and Myths. Pittsburgh: U of Pittsburg P, 2012: Ch. 5, 9.

R. Business

Beard, Miriam. A History of Business, Vol. I: From Babylon to the Monopolists. 1938. Rpt. Ann Arbor, Mich.: U of Michigan P, 1962: Ch. 7-9, 11.
Ferguson, Niall. The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World. New York City: Penguin Press, 2008: Ch. 2.
Knight, Peter. Reading the Market: Genres of Financial Capitalism in Gilded Age America. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 2016: Ch. 1.
Montanelli & Gervaso, Ch. 12.

S. Narcotics

Abel, Ernest L. Marijuana: The First Twelve Thousand Years. 1980. Rpt. Boston: Springer US, 2013: Ch. 5.
Chasteen, John Charles. Getting High: Marijuana Through the Ages. Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield, 2016: Ch. 3.
McCoy, Alfred W. The Politics of Heroin: CIA Complicity in the Global Drug Trade: Afghanistan, Southeast Asia, Central America, Columbia, 2nd rev. ed. Chicago: Lawrence Hill Books, 2003: Ch. 3.
Streatfeild, Dominic. Cocaine (An Unauthorized Biography). New York City: Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin’s Press, 2001: Ch. 2.

T. East Asia

Bacon, George B., and Frederick Wells Williams. Siam, the Land of the White Elephant, As It Was and Is, rev. ed. New York City: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1892: Ch. 1, 4-5.
Lim, Louisa. Indelible City: Dispossession and Defiance in Hong Kong. New York City: Riverhead Books, 2022: Ch. 2.

U. Christopher Columbus

1. The First Voyage
Bergreen. Columbus: The Four Voyages. New York City: Viking, 2011: Ch. 1, 3-4.
Bown, Ch. 5.
Dugard, Martin. The Last Voyage of Columbus: Being the Epic Tale of the Great Captain’s Fourth Expedition, Including Accounts of Mutiny, Shipwreck, and Discovery, rev. ed. New York City: Back Bay Books/Little, Brown and Co., 2006: Ch. 1.
Estrada, Alfredo José. Havana: Autobiography of a City. New York City: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007: Ch. 1, 4.
Fuentes, Carlos. The Buried Mirror: Reflections on Spain and the New World. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1992: Ch. 4.
Hayden, Deborah. Pox: Genius, Madness, and the Mysteries of Syphilis. New York City: Basic Books, 2003: Ch. 1.
Kusche, Larry. The Bermuda Triangle Mystery -- Solved, rev. ed. 1986. Rpt. Edison, N.J.: Galahad Books, 2006: Ch. 2.
Russell, Jeffrey Burton. Inventing the Flat Earth: Columbus and Modern Historians. New York City: Praeger, 1991: Ch. 1.
Sale, Kirkpatrick. The Conquest of Paradise: Christopher Columbus and the Columbian Legacy. New York City: Knopf, 1990: Ch. 4.
Stove, David. On Enlightenment. Ed. Andrew Irvine. New Brunswick, N.J.: Transaction Publishers, 2002: Ch. 10.
Thomas, Pt. 2, Ch. 5-7.
Vargas Llosa, Mario. "Questions of Conquest: What Columbus Wrought, and What He Did Not." Harper's. Dec. 1990: 45.
Wilson-Lee, Ch. 1.
2. The Fourth Voyage
Bergreen, Columbus, Ch. 11-13.
Bishop, Joseph Bucklin. The Panama Gateway, rev. ed. New York City: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1915: Pt. 1, Ch. 1.
Dugard, Ch. 12-24.
J.J. Williams, Ch. 4.
Wilson-Lee, Ch. 4-5.
3. Other
Bergreen, Columbus, Ch. 2, 5-10.
Dugard, Ch. 5, 7-11.
Farrell, Financial Vipers of Venice, Ch. 9.
Frers, Ch. 8.
Hancock. Underworld: The Mysterious Origins of Civilization. New York City: Crown Publishers, 2002: Ch. 24.
Kritzler, Ch. 1.
Levy, Shawn. The Last Playboy: The High Life of Porfiro Rubirosa. New York City: Fourth Estate, 2005: Ch. 1.
Montanelli & Gervaso, Ch. 27.
Rushby, Kevin. Paradise: A History of the Idea That Rules the World. 2006. Rpt. New York City: Carroll & Graf Publishers, 2007: Ch. 6.
Thomas, Pt. 2, Ch. 4, 8-13.
J.J. Williams, Ch. 3.
Wilson-Lee, Ch. 2-3.

V. Stanley L. Jaki

1. The Road of Science and the Ways to God, rev. ed. Port Huron, Mich.: Real View Books, 2005: Ch. 4.
2. Science and Creation: From Eternal Cycles to an Oscillating Universe, 2nd rev. ed. New Hope, Ky.: Real View Books, 2016: Ch. 11-12.
3. Catholic Essays. Front Royal, Va.: Christendom Press, 1990: Ch. 2.
4. Cosmos in Transition: Studies in the History of Cosmology. Tucson, Ariz.: Pachart Publishing House, 1990: Ch. 2.
5. The Purpose of It All, rev. ed. Port Huron, Mich.: Real View Books, 2005: Ch. 4.
6. The Only Chaos and Other Essays. Lanham, Md.: UP of America/Intercollegiate Studies Institute, 1990: Ch. 4.
7. God and the Cosmologists, rev. ed. Edinburgh, U.K.: Scottish Academic Press, 1998: Ch. 1.
8. The Savior of Science, rev. ed. 2000. Rpt. Port Huron, Mich.: Real View Books, 2006: Ch. 3.
9. The Drama of Quantities. Port Huron, Mich.: Real View Books, 2005: Ch. 1.

W. L'Amour

1. The Sackett Series
a. Sackett’s Land, Ch. 7-17.
b. To the Far Blue Mountains, Ch. 11-13.
2. Fair Blows the Wind, Ch. 25, 27, 29-32.

X. Norwich

1. The Middle Sea, Ch. 12-14, 17.
2. Four Princes: Henry VIII, Francis I, Charles V, Suleiman the Magnificent and the Obsessions that Forged Modern Europe. 2016. Rpt. New York City: Atlantic Monthly Press, 2017.

Y. Paglia

1. Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson. New Haven, Conn.: Yale UP, 1990: Ch. 5.
2. Glittering Images, Ch. 8, 10.

Z. Sublette

1. Cuba and Its Music, Ch. 6, 13.
2. The World That Made New Orleans, Ch. 4.

AA. Thomas S. Szasz

1. The Manufacture of Madness: A Comparative Study of the Inquisition and the Mental Health Movement, rev. ed. Syracuse, N.Y.: Syracuse UP, 1997: Ch. 2, 5.
2. Cruel Compassion: Psychiatric Control of Society's Unwanted. New York City: John Wiley & Sons, 1994: Ch. 1, 6.

AB. Other

Adams, Charles. For Good and Evil: The Impact of Taxes on the Course of Civilization, rev. ed. Lanham, Md.: Madison Books, 1999: Ch. 19, 23-24.
Ashenburg, Katherine. The Dirt on Clean: An Unsanitized History. 2007. Rpt. New York City: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2014: Ch. 4.
Barzun, Jacques. From Dawn to Decadence: 500 Years of Western Cultural Life, 1500 to the Present. New York City: HarperCollins Publishers, 2000: Pt. 1.
Bernstein, William J. The Birth of Plenty: How the Prosperity of the Modern World Was Created. New York City: McGraw-Hill, 2004: Ch. 7-9.
Bramley, Ch. 20.
Bown, Ch. 9.
Bryce, James. Impressions of South Africa, rev. ed. London: Macmilland and Co., 1899: Ch. 6, 8, 11.
Burke, James, and Robert Ornstein. The Axemaker's Gift: A Double-Edged History of Human Culture. New York City: Putnam's, 1995: Ch. 6-7.
Casey, Ch. 13, 15-17.
Chayes, Sarah. Thieves of State: Why Corruption Threatens Global Security. New York City: W.W. Norton & Co., 2015: Ch. 12-13.
Collingham, Ch. 5.
Crosby, Alfred W. The Measure of Reality: Quantification and Western Society, 1250-1600. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge UP, 1997: Ch. 11.
Dawson, Christopher. The Crisis of Western Education. 1961. Rpt. Washington, D.C.: Catholic U of America P, 2010: Ch. 3-4.
Day, A. Grove. Adventurers of the Pacific. New York City: Meredith Press, Ch. 6.
Day, David. Conquest: How Societies Overwhelm Others. Oxford, U.K.: Oxford UP, 2008: Ch. 1-5, 9.
De Roover, Ch. 1-2.
Easterly, William. The Tyranny of Experts: Economists, Dictators, and the Forgotten Rights of the Poor. New York City: Basic Books, 2013: Ch. 7.
Epstein, Edward Jay [Edward Levinson]. The Rise and Fall of Diamonds: The Shattering of a Brilliant Illusion. New York City: Simon and Schuster, 1982: Ch. 11.
Fehrenbach, Ch. 3.
Fletcher, Ch. 10, 16, 20.
Fogel, Robert William, and Stanley L. Engerman. Time on the Cross: The Economics of American Negro Slavery, rev. ed. New York City: W.W. Norton & Co., 1989: Ch. 1.
Francis, Samuel. "Classical Republicanism and the Right to Bear Arms." The Costs of War: America's Pyrrhic Victories, rev. ed. Ed. John V. Denson. New Brunswick, N.J.: Transaction Publishers, 1999: Ch. 2.
Franklin, James. "The Renaissance Myth." Quadrant Nov. 1982: 51-60.
French, Douglas E. Early Speculative Bubbles and Increases in the Money Supply. 1992. Auburn, Ala.: Ludwig von Mises Institute, 2009: Ch. 3.
Friedman, David D., Peter Leeson, and David Skarbek. Legal Systems Very Different From Ours. Santa Clara, Calif.: David D. Friedman, 2019: Ch. 2.
Fuentes, Carlos. Vlad. 2004. Trans. E. Shaskan Bumas and Alejandro Branger. Champaign, Ill.: Dalkey Archive Press, 2012: Ch. 11.
Gaidzakian, Ohan. Illustrated Armenia and the Armenians. Boston: B.H. Aznive, 1898: Ch. 3.
Greenblatt, Stephen. The Swerve: How the World Became Modern. New York City: W.W. Norton & Co., 2011: Ch. 1-2, 4-11.
Gress, David. From Plato to NATO: The Idea of the West and Its Opponents. New York City: The Free Press, 1998: Ch. 7.
Griffin, G. Edward. The Creature From Jekyll Island: A Second Look at the Federal Reserve, 3rd rev. ed. Westlake Village, Calif.: American Media, 2002: Ch. 9.
Hayden, Deborah. Pox: Genius, Madness, and the Mysteries of Syphilis. New York City: Basic Books, 2003: Ch. 2-5.
A History of Private Life, Vol. III: Passions of the Renaissance. Ed. Georges Duby. Trans. Arthur Goldhammer. Cambridge, Mass.: The Belknap Press of Harvard UP, 1989.
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