A. The Emergence of the State
Bassani, Luigi Marco, and Carlo Lottieri. "The Problem of Security: Historicity of the State and 'European Realism.' " The Myth of National Defense: Essays on the Theory and History of Security Production. Ed. Hans-Hermann Hoppe. Auburn, Ala.: Ludwig von Mises Institute, 2003: 21-64.
Gatto, John Taylor. The Underground History of American Education: A Schoolteacher's Intimate Investigation Into the Prison of Modern Schooling, 3rd rev. ed. New York City: Oxford Village Press, 2006: Ch. 7.
Mockler, Anthony. The Mercenaries. 1969. Rpt. Sugarland, Texas: Free Companion Press, 1981: Ch. 2.
Porter, Bruce D. War and the Rise of the State: The Military Foundations of Modern Politics. New York City: The Free Press, 1994: Ch. 6.
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. 3, Ch. 1.
Rushdoony, Rousas John. Bread Upon the Waters: Columns From the "California Farmer." 1969. Rpt. Fairfax, Va.: Thoburn Press, 1974: Ch. 22.
Van Crevald, Martin. The Rise and Decline of the State. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge UP, 1999: Ch. 2.

B. Columbus
Bishop, Joseph Bucklin. The Panama Gateway, rev. ed. New York City: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1915: Pt. 1, Ch. 1.
Estrada, Alfredo José. Havana: Autobiography of a City. New York City: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007: Ch. 1, 4.
Hayden, Deborah. Pox: Genius, Madness, and the Mysteries of Syphilis. New York City: Basic Books, 2003: Ch. 1.
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.
Vargas Llosa, Mario. "Questions of Conquest: What Columbus Wrought, and What He Did Not." Harper's. Dec. 1990: 45.

C. Dar al-Islam
Fregosi, Paul. Jihad in the West: Muslim Conquests From the 7th to the 21st Centuries. Amherst, N.Y.: Prometheus Books, 1998: Ch. 24-38.
Hourani, Albert. A History of the Arab Peoples. Cambridge, Mass.: The Belknap Press of Harvard UP, 1991: Pt. 2.
Norton, Anne. Leo Strauss and the Politics of American Empire. New Haven, Conn.: Yale UP, 2004: Ch. 13.
Robinson, Kim Stanley. The Years of Rice and Salt. New York City: Bantam Books, 2002.
Spencer, Robert. Onward Muslim Soldiers: How Jihad Still Threatens America and the West. Washington, D.C.: Regnery Publishing, 2003: Ch. 7.

D. Music
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. 5.
Sullivan, Jack. New World Symphonies: How American Culture Changed European Music. New Haven, Conn.: Yale UP, 1999: Ch. 5.

E. England
1. The Canterbury Tales
The Text of the Canterbury Tales, Studied on the Basis of All Known Manuscripts, Vol. I-VIII. Ed. John Matthews Manly et al. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1940.
Altick, Richard D. The Scholar-Adventurers, rev. ed. Columbus, Ohio: Ohio State UP, 1987: Ch. 3.
2. Other
Adams, Charles. For Good and Evil: The Impact of Taxes on the Course of Civilization, rev. ed. Lanham, Md.: Madison Books, 1999: Ch. 16.
Altick, Ch. 7-8.
Beck, James M. The Vanishing Rights of the States: A Discussion of the Right of the Senate to Nullify the Action of a Sovereign State in the Selection of Its Representatives in the Senate. 1926. Rpt. Holmes Beach, Fla.: Gaunt, 1997: Appendix A.
Cam, Helen. England Before Elizabeth, rev. ed. New York City: Harper & Row Publishers, 1960: Ch. 5-14.
Gardner, Laurence.  The Shadow of Solomon: The Lost Secret of the Freemasons Revealed. London: HarperElement, 2005: Ch. 9.
Shinn, Charles Howard. Mining Camps: A Study in American Frontier Government. 1885. Rpt. Gloucester, Mass.: Peter Smith, 1970: Ch. 3.
Sutton, Antony C. Wall Street and FDR. 1975. Rpt. Cutchogue, N.Y. : Buccaneer Books, 2007: Ch. 7.

F. 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. 62-63, 66, 68.
Norwich, John Julius. Byzantium, Vol. III: The Decline and Fall. New York City: Alfred A. Knopf, 1995: Ch. 4-21.

G. The Knights Templar
Baigent, Michael, Richard Leigh, and Henry Lincoln. Holy Blood, Holy Grail, 2nd rev. ed. New York City: Delacorte Press, 2005: Ch. 2-3, 5.
Gardner. Shadow of Solomon, Ch. 7, 10.

H. The University
Nisbet, Robert A. The Degradation of the Academic Dogma. 1971. Rpt. New Brunswick, N.J.: Transaction Publishers, 1997: Pt. 1. 
Woods, Thomas E. Jr. How the Catholic Church Built Western Civilization. Washington, D.C.: Regnery Publishing, 2005: Ch. 4.

I. Christianity
Johnson, Paul. A History of Christianity. New York City: Atheneum, 1976: Pt. 4.
Stark, Rodney. The Victory of Reason: How Christianity Led to Freedom, Capitalism, and Western Success. New York City: Random House, 2005: Ch. 4-6.
Woods, Ch. 5, 8.

I. Sicily
Norwich. The Other Conquest. New York City: Harper & Row, 1967: Ch. 20-23.
Reid, Ed. The Grim Reapers: The Anatomy of Organized Crime in America. 1969. Rpt. New York City: Bantam, 1970: Ch. 1.

J. Italy
Eco, Umberto. The Name of the Rose. 1980. Trans. William Weaver. San Diego: Helen and Kurt Wolff/Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1983.
Norwich. A History of Venice. New York City: Alfred A. Knopf, 1982: Ch. 7-14.

K. The Swiss Confederation
Adams, Ch. 18.
Johnstone, Rick. "Ethnic Purges and Neighborly Pacts: Reflections on a Swiss Statue." Telos Winter 1999: 49-59.
Mockler, Ch. 4.

L. 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. 2.
Sechrest, Larry J. "Privateering and National Defense: Naval Warfare for Private Profit." The Myth of National Defense, 239-274.
Stromberg, Joseph R. "Mercenaries, Guerillas, Militias, and the Defense of Minimal States and Free Societies." The Myth of National Defense, 215-238.

M. Gardner
1. Bloodline of the Holy Grail: The Hidden Lineage of Jesus Revealed, 2nd rev. ed. Gloucester, Mass.: Fair Winds Press, 2005: Ch. 17.
2. Shadow of Solomon, Ch. 16.
3. The Magdalene Legacy: The Jesus and Mary Bloodline Conspiracy: Revelations Beyond the Da Vinci Code. 2005. Rpt. San Francisco: Weiser Books, 2007: Ch. 18.

N. Stanley L. Jaki
1. The Absolute Beneath the Relative and Other Essays. Lanham, Md.: UP of America/The Intercollegiate Studies Institute, 1988: Ch. 9.
2. Science and Creation: From Eternal Cycles to an Oscillating Universe, rev. ed. Lanham, Md.: UP of America, 1986: Ch. 10.
3. The Only Chaos and Other Essays. (Lanham, Md.: UP of America/Intercollegiate Studies Institute, 1990: Ch. 3.

O. Rothbard
1. 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. 2, Ch. 4, 6-8; Pt. 3, Ch. 2-9; Pt. 5, Ch. 7; Pt. 6, Ch. 1-2.
2. 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. 1.
3. The Logic of Action, Vol. I: Method, Money, and the Austrian School. Cheltenham, U.K.: Edward Elgar, 1997: Ch. 8

P. 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. 1, 4, 6-8, 10.
2. Cruel Compassion: Psychiatric Control of Society's Unwanted. New York City: John Wiley & Sons, 1994: Ch. 4.

Q. Others
Adams, Ch. 22.
Baigent et al., Ch. 4, 11.
Bethell, Tom. The Noblest Triumph: Property and Prosperity Through the Ages. New York City: St. Martin's Press, 1998: Ch. 6.
Garrett, Garet [Edward Peter Garrett]. The American Story. Chicago: Henry Regnery Co., 1955: Pt. 1, Ch. 1.
Gibbon, Vol. III, Ch. 64-65, 67, 69.
Heer, Friedrich. The Holy Roman Empire. 1967. Trans. Janet Sondheimer. New York City: Praeger, 1968: Ch. 4-5.
Johnson. A History of the American People. New York City: HarperCollins Publishers, 1997: Pt. 1.
MacDonald, Kevin. The Culture of Critique: An Evolutionary Analysis of Jewish Involvement in Twentieth-Century Century Intellectual and Political Movements, rev. ed. Bloomington, Ind.: 1st Books Library, 2002: Ch. 1.
McDonald, Forrest. The American Presidency: An Intellectual History. Lawrence, Kan.: UP of Kansas, 1994: Ch. 2.
Molnar, Thomas. The Decline of the Intellectual, rev. ed. New Brunswick, N.J.: Transaction Publishers, 1994: Ch. 1.
Nisbet. History of the Idea of Progress, rev. ed. New Brunswick, N.J.: Transaction Publishers, 1994: Ch. 3.
Patterson, Orlando. Freedom, Vol. I: Freedom in the Making of Western Culture. New York City: Basic Books, 1991: Pt. 5.
Spiel, Hilde. Vienna’s Golden Autumn, 1866-1938. London: Weidenfeld & Nicholson, 1987: Ch. 1.
Sublette, Ned. Cuba and Its Music: From the First Drums to the Mambo. Chicago: Chicago Review Press, 2004: Ch. 15.
Sterling, Claire. The Masaryk Case. New York City: Harper & Row Publishers, 1969: Ch. 13.
Tosches, Nick. In The Hand Of Dante. Boston: Little, Brown and Co., 2002.
Vidal, Gore. A Search for the King: A 12th Century Legend. New York City: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1950.
The Voluntary City: Choice, Community, and Civil Society. Ed. David T. Beito, Peter Gordon, and Alexander Tabarrok. Ann Arbor, Mich.: U of Michigan P/The Independent Institute, 2002: Ch. 6.