1. The Mercenaries
McFate, Sean. The Modern Mercenary: Private Armies and What They Mean for World Order. New York City: Oxford UP, 2014: Ch. 7-8.
Mockler, Anthony. The Mercenaries. 1969. Rpt. Sugarland, Texas: Free Companion Press, 1981: Ch. 2.
2. Rousas John Rushdoony
a. Bread Upon the Waters: Columns From the "California Farmer." 1969. Rpt. Fairfax, Va.: Thoburn Press, 1974: Ch. 22.
b. Christianity
and the State. Vallecito, Calif.: Ross House Books, 1986: Ch. 26.
3. Other
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.
Davis, R.H.C. A History of Medieval Europe: From Constantine to Saint Louis, 2nd rev. ed. 1988. Rpt. Harlow, U.K.: Pearson Longman, 2006: Pt. 2, Ch. 8.
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.
McCoy, Alfred W. Torture and Impunity: The U.S. Doctrine of Coercive Interrogation. Madison, Wis.: U of Wisconsin P, 2012: Ch. 5.
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.
Strayer, Joseph R. On the Medieval Origins of the Modern State. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton UP, 1970.
Unger, Miles E. Machiavelli: A Biography. New York City: Simon & Schuster, 2011.
Van Creveld, Martin. The Rise and Decline of the State. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge UP, 1999: Ch. 2.
1. The Seljuk Empire
Emin, Ahmed. Turkey in the World War. New Haven, Conn.: Yale UP, 1930: Ch. 1.
Sykes, Mark. The Caliphs' Last Heritage: A Short History of the Turkish Empire. 1915. Rpt. New York City: Arno Press, 1973: Pt. 1, Ch. 23.
2. The Assassins
Bowart, Walter H. [Walter Howard Kirby]. Operation Mind Control, rev. ed. Fort Bragg, Calif.: Flatlands Editions, 1994: Ch. 25.
Lewis, Bernard. The Assassins: A Radical Sect in Islam, rev ed. New York City: Basic Books, 2003: Ch. 1, 4.
3. Jerusalem
Bahat, Dan, and Shalom Sabar. Jerusalem, Stone and Spirit: 3000 Years of History and Art. 1997. Rpt. New York City: Rizzoli, 1998: Ch. 10.
Milton, Giles. The Riddle and the Knight: In Search of Sir John Mandeville, the World's Greatest Traveller. 1996. Rpt. New York City: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2001: Ch. 8.
Montefiore, Simon Sebag. Jerusalem: The Biography. New York City: Alfred A. Knopf, 2011: Ch. 26-30.
4. David Livingstone
a. Terrorism and the Illuminati: A Three Thousand Year History. Charleston, S.C.: BookSurge, 2007: Ch. 15.
b. Black Terror, White Soldiers: Islam, Fascism and the New Age. Scotts Valley, Calif.: Sabilillah Publicatons, 2013: Ch. 5.
5. Tim Mackintosh-Smith
a. Travels With a Tangerine: A Journey in the Footnotes of Ibn Battutah. London: John Murray, 2002.
b. The Hall of a Thousand Columns: Hindustan to Malabar With Ibn Battutah. London: John Murray, 2005.
6. Steven Runciman
a. A History of the Crusades, Vol. II: The Kingdom of Jerusalem and the Frankish East. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge UP, 1952: Pt. 4, Ch. 2; Pt. 5.
b. A History of the Crusades, Vol. III: The Kingdom of Acre and the Later Crusades. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge UP, 1954: Pt. 3, Ch. 4; Pt. 4, Ch. 3.
6. Other
Abel, Ernest L. Marijuana: The First Twelve Thousand Years. 1980. Rpt. Boston: Springer US, 2013: Ch. 2.
Ameer Ali, Syed. A Short History of the Saracens: Being a Concise Account of the Rise and Decline of the Saracenic Power, and of the Economic, Social and Intellectual Development of the Arab Nation, From the Earliest Times to the Destruction of Bagdad, and the Expulsion of the Moors From Spain, 2nd corr. ed. 1921. Rpt. Boston: Elibron Classics, 2004: Ch. 20-25.
Barton, James L. Daybreak in Turkey. Boston: Pilgrim Press, 1908: Ch. 3.
Black, Edwin. Banking on Baghdad: Inside Iraq's 7,000-Year History of War, Profit and Conflict. Hoboken, N.J.: John Wiley & Sons, 2004: Ch. 4.
Chasteen, John Charles. Getting High: Marijuana Through the Ages. Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield, 2016: Ch. 4.
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.
Jenkins, Philip. 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. 6-7.
Kirchner, Paul. The Deadliest Men: The World's Deadliest Combatants Through the Ages. Boulder, Colo.: Paladin Press, 2001: Ch. 29.
Kuran, Timur. Islam and Mammon: The Economic Predicaments of Islamism. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton UP, 2004: Ch. 6.
L'Amour, Louis [Louis LaMoore]. The Walking Drum, rev. ed. New York City: Bantam Books, 2019: Ch. 3-24, 48-57.
Lewis. Faith and Power: Religion and Politics in the Middle East. New York City: Oxford UP, 2010: Ch. 6.
Maalouf, Amin. The Crusades Through Arab Eyes. 1984. Rpt. London: Folio Books, 2012: Pt. 4-14.
Margolis, Eric S. American Raj: Liberation or Domination? Toronto: Key Porter Books, 2008: Ch. 2.
Milton, Ch. 6, 10.
Norton, Anne. Leo Strauss and the Politics of American Empire. New Haven, Conn.: Yale UP, 2004: Ch. 13.
Patai, Raphael. The Arab Mind, 2nd rev. ed. New York City: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1983: Ch. 1-11, 15.
Peters, Joan. From Time Immemorial: The Origins of the Arab-Jewish Conflict Over Palestine. 1984. Rpt. Chicago: JKAP, 2002: Ch. 4.
Randal, Jonathan C. Osama: The Making of a Terrorist, rev. ed. London: I.B. Tauris, 2011.
Rihani, Ameen. The Descent of Bolshevism. 1920. Rpt. Charleston, S.C.: Bibliolife, 2009: Ch. 4.
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.
Sykes, Pt. 1, Ch. 24-25.
"Warraq, Ibn." The Islam in Islamic Terrorism: The Importance of Beliefs, Ideas, and Ideology. Nashville, Tenn.: New English Review Press, 2017: Ch. 1, 12, 15.
1. The British Isles
a. 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.
Johnson, Paul. Creators: From Chaucer and Dürer to Picasso and Disney. New York City: HarperCollins Publishers, 2006: Ch. 1.
b. Ireland
Johnson. Ireland: Land of Troubles: A History From the Twelfth Century to the Present Day. 1980. Rpt. Chicago: Academy Chicago Publishers, 1984: Ch. 1.
Russell, Thaddeus. A Renegade History of the United States. New York City: Free Press, 2010: Ch. 6.
c. Freemasonry
Dickie, John. The Craft: How Freemasons Made the Modern World. New York City: PublicAffairs, 2020: Ch. 3.
Gardner, Laurence. The Shadow of Solomon: The Lost Secret of the Freemasons Revealed. London: HarperElement, 2005: Ch. 9.
d. The Plantagenet Dynasty
Johnson. The Life and Times of Edward III. London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1973.
Painter, Sidney. The Reign of King John. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins Press, 1949: Ch. 1-7, 9.
e. The American Inheritance
The Foundational Documents of the American Legal System. Chicago: CALI eLangdell Press, 2014.
Painter, Ch. 8.
f. 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.
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. 1.
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.
Calhoun, Frederick S. Hunters and Howlers: Threats and Violence Against Federal Judicial Officials in the United States. Arlington, Va.: U.S. Marshals Service, 1998: Ch. 1.
Cam, Helen. England Before Elizabeth, rev. ed. New York City: Harper & Row Publishers, 1960: Ch. 5-14.
Cawthorne, Nigel. A Brief History of Robin Hood. Philadelphia: Running Press Book Publishers, 2010: Ch. 1-4, 6-12.
Corrigan, Gordon. A Great and Glorious Adventure: A History of the Hundred Years War and the Birth of Renaissance England. 2013. Rpt. New York City: Pegasus Books, 2014.
Coulter, Ann H. High Crimes and Misdemeanors: The Case Against Bill Clinton. Washington, D.C.: Regnery Publishing, 1998: Ch. 20.
Flynn, John T. Meet Your Congress. Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Doran & Co., 1944: Ch. 2.
Fraser, George MacDonald. The Steel Bonnets: The Story of the Anglo-Scottish Border Reivers. 1971. Rpt. New York City: Skyhorse Publishing, 2008: Ch. 3.
Halbrook, Stephen P. The Right to Bear Arms: A Constitutional Right of the People or a Privilege of the Ruling Class? New York City: Bombardier Books, 2021: Ch. 1.
Hueffer, Ford Madox [Joseph Leopold Ford Madox Hueffer]. The Cinque Ports: A Historical and Descriptive Record. Edinburgh, U.K.: William Blackwood and Sons, 1900: Ch. 3-5, 13, 15, Appendix C-G.
Hitchings, Henry. Sorry!: The English and Their Manners. New York City: Farrar Straus and Giroux, 2013: Ch. 2, 11.
Hughes, Jonathan R.T. The Government Habit Redux: Economic Controls From Colonial Times to the Present. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton UP, 1991: Ch. 2.
Jankovic, Ivan. The American Counter-Revolution in Favor of Liberty: How Americans Resisted Modern State, 1765-1850. Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019: Ch. 6.
Kirchner, Ch. 34.
Lane, Roger. Murder in America: A History. Columbus, Ohio: Ohio State UP, 1997: Ch. 1.
Macfarlane, Alan. The Origins of English Individualism: The Family, Property and Social Transition, corr. ed. Oxford, U.K.: Basil Blackwell, 1985: Ch. 1, 5, 8.
McConaughy, John. From Cain to Capone: Racketeering Down the Ages. New York City: Brentano’s, 1931: Ch. 5.
Milton, Ch. 1, 3, 5, 7, 9.
Shinn, Charles Howard. Mining Camps: A Study in American Frontier Government. 1885. Rpt. Gloucester, Mass.: Peter Smith, 1970: Ch. 3.
Smith, Seymour Wemyss. John Hanson, Our First President. 1932. Rpt. Philadelphia: Invest-in-America National Council, 1971: Ch. 1.
Stoudt, John Baer. Nicolas Martiau: The Adventurous Huguenot, the Military Engineer, and the Earliest American Ancestor of George Washington. Norristown, Pa.: The Norristown Press, 1932: Ch. 10.
Sutton, Antony C. Wall Street and FDR. 1975. Rpt. Cutchogue, N.Y. : Buccaneer Books, 2007: Ch. 7.
Tucker, William. Vigilante: The Backlash Against Crime in America. Briarcliff Manor, N.Y.: Stein and Day, 1985: Ch. 7.
Tuchman, Barbara. A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century. 1978. Rpt. London: Penguin Books, 2017: Ch. 8, 14.
Turchin, Peter, and Sergey A. Nefedov. Secular Cycles. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton UP, 2009: Ch. 3.
Webb, James. Born Fighting: How the Scots-Irish Shaped America, rev. ed. New York City: Broadway Books, 2007: Pt. 2, Ch. 3-4; Pt. 3, Ch. 2.
Wooldridge, William C. Uncle Sam, the Monopoly Man. New Rochelle, N.Y.: Arlington House, 1970: Ch. 5.
Younger, Richard D. The People's Panel: The Grand Jury in the United States, 1634-1941. Providence, R.I.: American History Research Center/Brown UP, 1963: Ch. 1.
2. France
a. Turchin
i. War and Peace and War: The Life Cycles of Imperial Nations. New York City: Pi Press, 2006: Ch. 8.
ii. Secular Cycles. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton UP, 2009: Ch. 4.
b. Other
Baring-Gould, Sabine. A Book of the Pyrenees. London: Methuen & Co., 1907: Ch. 2, 5, 17.
Ford, and Biala [Janice Biala]. Provence: From Minstrels to the Machine. 1935. Rpt. Manchester, U.K.: Carcanet, 2009: Pt. 2, Ch. 4, 6.
Jager, Eric. The Last Duel: A True Story of Crime, Scandal, and Trial by Combat in Medieval France. New York City: Broadway Books, 2004.
L. L'Amour, The Walking Drum, Ch. 25-34.
Norwich, John Julius [John Julius Cooper]. A History of France. New York City: Atlantic Monthly Press, 2018: Ch. 3-5.
Tuchman, Ch. 1, 6-7, 17.
Weis, René. The Yellow Cross: The Story of the Last Cathars' Rebellion Against the Inquisition, 1290-1329. 2000. Rpt. New York City: Vintage Books, 2002.
3. The Swiss Confederation
Adams, Ch. 18.
Codevilla, Angelo M. Between the Alps and a Hard Place: Switzerland in World War II and Moral Blackmail Today. Washington, D.C.: Regnery Publishing, 2000: Ch. 2.
Johnstone, Rick. "Ethnic Purges and Neighborly Pacts: Reflections on a Swiss Statue." Telos Winter 1999: 49-59.
Mockler, Ch. 4.
4. Sicily
a. Norwich
i. The Normans in Sicily, Vol. I, Ch. 20-23; Vol. II, Ch. 1-6, 8-17, 19-21.
ii. Sicily: An Island at the Crossroads of History. New York City: Random House, 2015: Ch. 5-8.
b. Others
Dickie, John. Delizia!: The Epic History of the Italians and Their Food. 2007. Rpt. New York City: Free Press, 2008: Ch. 2.
Montanelli, Indro, and Roberto Gervaso. Italy in the Golden Centuries. 1967. Trans. Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi. Chicago: Henry Regnery Co., 1969: Ch. 3.
Reid, Ed. The Grim Reapers: The Anatomy of Organized Crime in America. 1969. Rpt. New York City: Bantam, 1970: Ch. 1.
Reynolds, Ch. 8.
Tosches, Nick. Power on Earth. New York City: Arbor House, 1986: Ch. 2.
5. Naples
Collison-Morley, Lacy. Naples Through the Centuries. New York City: Frederick A. Stokes Co. Publishers, 1924: Ch. 3.
Goldstone, Ch. 1-16, 18.
6. Venice
Bergreen, Laurence. Marco Polo: From Venice to Xanadu. New York City: Alfred A. Knopf, 2007: Ch. 1, 15.
Crowley, Ch. 2-4, 8, 10-13.
Dickie, Delizia!, Ch. 4.
Farrell. Financial Vipers of Venice: Alchemical Money, Magical Physics, and Banking in the Middle Ages and Renaissance. Port Townsend, Wash.: Feral House, 2010: Ch. 10.
Madden, Thomas F. Venice: A New History. New York City: Viking, 2012: Ch. 5-9, 12.
Norwich. A History of Venice. New York City: Alfred A. Knopf, 1982: Ch. 7-14.
7. The Rest of Italy
Crowley, Ch. 9.
Dickie, Delizia!, Ch. 2.
Eco, Umberto. The Name of the Rose. 1980. Trans. William Weaver. San Diego: Helen and Kurt Wolff/Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1983.
Schaeffer, Francis A. How Should We Then Live?: The Rise and Decline of Western Thought and Culture. 1976. Rpt. Wheaton, Ill.: Crossway Books, 1983: Ch. 3.
Serventi, Silvano, and Françoise Sabban. Pasta: The Story of a Universal Food. 2000. Trans. Anthony Shugaar. New York City: Columbia UP, 2002: Ch. 2, 8.
Talese, Gay. Unto the Sons. 1992. Rpt. New York City: Random House Trade Paperbacks, 2006: Ch. 12.
Tuchman, Ch. 19.
Vitiello, Joanna Carraway. Public Justice and the Criminal Trial in Late Medieval Italy: Reggio Emilia in the Visconti Age. Leiden, Netherlands: Brill, 2016.
8. The Holy Roman Empire
Davis, Pt. 2, Ch. 6.
Heer. The Holy Roman Empire. 1967. Trans. Sondheimer. New York City: Praeger, 1968: Ch. 4-5.
Montanelli & Gervaso, Ch. 2.
Prague, the Crown of Bohemia, 1347-1437. Ed. Barbara Drake Boehm and Jiri Fajt. New York City: The Metropolitan Museum of Art/Yale UP, 2005.
Tuchman, Ch. 15.
Wilson, Peter. Heart of Europe: A History of the Holy Roman Empire. Cambridge, Mass.: The Belknap Press of Harvard UP, 2016: Ch. 8-9.
9. Spain
Baring-Gould, Ch. 20.
Brenan, Gerald. The Spanish Labyrinth: An Account of the Social and Political Background of the Civil War, rev. ed. London: Cambridge UP, 1950: Ch. 6.
Kamen, Henry. The Spanish Inquisition: A Historical Revision, 3rd rev. ed. New Haven, Conn.: Yale UP, 2014: Ch. 1.
O’Shea, Stephen. Sea of Faith: Islam and Christianity in the Medieval Mediterranean World. New York City: Walker & Co., 2006: Ch. 7.
10. Other
Denny, Isabel. The Fall of Hitler’s Fortress City: The Battle for Königsberg, 1945. St. Paul, Minn.: MBI Publishing, 2007: Ch. 1.
Milton, Ch. 4.
1. The Crusader Sack of Constantinople
Runciman, Vol. III, Pt. 2, Ch. 1.
Tyerman, Christopher. God’s War: A New History of the Crusades. 2006. Rpt. Cambridge, Mass.: Belknap Press of Harvard UP, 2008: Ch. 17.
2. Norwich
a. The Normans in Sicily: The Normans in the South, 1016-1130; and The Kingdom in the Sun, 1130-1194. London: Penguin Books, 1992: Vol. II, Ch. 18.
b. Byzantium, Vol. III: The Decline and Fall. New York City: Alfred A. Knopf, 1995: Ch. 4-21.
3. Other
Cox, Samuel S. Diversions of a Diplomat in Turkey. 1887. Rpt. New York City: Elibron Classics, 2005: Ch. 12.
Crowley, Roger. City of Fortune: How Venice Ruled the Seas. Rpt. New York City: Random House, 2011: Ch. 5-7.
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.
L. L'Amour, The Walking Drum, Ch. 43-47.
Milton, Ch. 2.
Baigent, Michael, Richard Leigh, and Henry Lincoln. Holy Blood, Holy Grail, 3rd rev. ed. New York City: Delacorte Press, 2005: Ch. 2-3, 5.
Frers, Ernesto. The Templar Pirates: The Secret Alliance to Build the New Jerusalem. 2005. Trans. Ariel Godwin. Rochester, Vt.: Destiny Books, 2007: Ch. 2-3.
Gardner. Shadow of Solomon, Ch. 7, 10.
Gwynne, H.A. The Cause of World Unrest, rev. ed. New York City: G.P. Putnam’s Sons/The Knickerbocker Press, 1920: Ch. 3.
Hancock, Graham, and Robert Bauval. The Master Game: Unmasking the Secret Rulers of the World, rev. ed. New York City: Disinformation Co., 2011: Ch. 15.
Parfrey, Adam, and Craig Heimbichner. Ritual America: Secret Brotherhoods and Their Influence on American Society. Port Townsend, Wash.: Feral House, 2012: Ch. 3-4.
Partner, Peter. The Knights Templar & Their Myth, rev. ed. Rochester, Vt.: Destiny Books, 1990: Ch. 1-2, 4-5.
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. 2.
Webster, Nesta H. Secret Societies and Subversive Movements. 1924. Rpt. Whitefish, Mont.: Kessinger Publishing, 2003: Ch. 3.
Heer, Friedrich. The Medieval World: Europe 1100-1350. 1961. Trans. Janet Sondheimer. 1962. Rpt. New York City: Welcome Rain, 1998: Ch. 9-10.
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.
1. The Roman Catholic Church
a. The Scholastics
i. St. Thomas Aquinas
Casey, Gerald. Freedom’s Progress?: A History of Political Thought. Exeter, U.K.: Imprint Academic, 2017: Ch. 11.
Chafuen, Alejandro A. Faith and Liberty: The Economic Thought of the Late Scholastics, rev. ed. Lanham, Md.: Lexington Books, 2003: Ch. 2.
Farrell, Joseph P., and Scott D. De Hart. Transhumanism: A Grimoire of Alchemical Agendas. Port Townsend, Wash.: Feral House, 2011: Ch. 8.
Feser, Edward. The Last Superstition: A Refutation of the New Atheism. South Bend, Ind.: St. Augustine's Press, 2008: Ch. 3.
Rockwell, Llewellyn H Jr. Fascism vs. Capitalism. Auburn, Ala.: Ludwig von Mises Institute, 2013: Ch. 7.
Rothbard, History of Economic Thought, Pt. 2, Ch. 7.
ii. Others
Chafuen, Ch. 1.
Feser, Ch. 4-5.
Grice-Hutchinson, Marjorie. Early Economic Thought in Spain, 1177-1740. 1978. Rpt. Indianapolis: Liberty Fund, 2015: Ch. 4.
Rothbard, History of Economic Thought, Pt. 2, Ch. 8.
b. Other
Faith & Action: The Collected Articles of R.J. Rushdoony From the Chalcedon Report, 1965-2004, Vol. I: Authority, Humanism & Morality. Vallecito, Calif.: Chalcedon/Ross House Books, 2019: Ch. 153.
Goldstone, Nancy Bazelon. The Lady Queen: The Notorious Reign of Joanna I, Queen of Naples, Jerusalem, and Sicily. New York City: Walker & Co., 2009: Ch. 17.
Seldes, George. The Vatican: Yesterday – Today –Tomorrow. New York City: Harper & Brothers, 1934: Ch. 5.
Tuchman, Ch. 16.
2. Outremer
a. Jerusalem
Andressohn, John C. The Ancestry and Life of Godfrey of Bouillon. Bloomington, Ind.: Indiana University Publications, 1947: Ch. 5-6.
Bahat & Sabar, Ch. 9.
Cline, Eric H. Jerusalem Besieged: From Ancient Canaan to Modern Israel. Ann Arbor, Mich.: U of Michigan P, 2004: Ch. 6.
Montefiore, Ch. 21-25.
b. Norwich
i. The Normans in Sicily, Vol. II, Ch. 7.
ii. The Middle Sea: A History of the Mediterranean. 2007. Rpt. London: The Folio Society, 2010: Ch. 10.
c. Runciman
i. Vol. II, Pt. 1-3; Pt. 4, Ch. 1, 3-4.
ii. Vol. III, Pt. 1; Pt. 2, Ch. 2-4; Pt. 3, Ch. 2; Pt. 4, Ch. 1-2; Pt. 5.
d. Other
Andressohn, Ch. 3-4.
Fletcher, Nichola. Charlemagne's Tablecloth: A Piquant History of Feasting. 2004. Rpt. New York City: St. Martin's Press, 2005: Ch. 13.
Foss, Michael. People of the First Crusade: The Truth About the Christian-Muslim War Revealed. 1997. Rpt. New York City: Skyhorse Publishing Co., 2011.
Heer, Medieval World, Ch. 6.
Moosa, Matti. The Maronites in History. 1986. Rpt. Piscataway, N.J.: Gorgias Press, 2005: Ch. 26.
O’Shea, Ch. 6.
Rubenstein, Jay. Armies of Heaven: The First Crusade and the Quest for the Apocalypse. New York City: Basic Books, 2011.
Stark, Rodney. God's Battalions: The Case for the Crusades. New York City: HarperOne, 2009.
Tyerman, Ch. 2-15, 19, 22-24.
3. George Grant
a. Third Time Around: A History of the Pro-Life Movement From the First Century to the Present. Brentwood, Tenn.: Wohlgemuth & Hyatt, Publishers, 1991: Ch. 4-5.
b. Grand Illusions: The Legacy of Planned Parenthood, rev. ed. Franklin, Tenn.: Adroit Press, 1992: Ch. 12.
4. Hancock
a. The Sign and the Seal: The Quest for the Lost Ark of the Covenant. 1992. Rpt.: London: Arrow, 2001: Ch. 3-5.
b. The Master Game, Ch. 2, 7.
5. Rushdoony
a. The One and the Many: Studies in the Philosophy of Order and Ultimacy. 1971. Rpt. Vallecito, Calif.: Chalcedon/Ross House Books, 1997: Ch. 8.
b. Christianity and the State, Ch. 28.
c. An Informed Faith: The Position Papers of R.J. Rushdoony, Vol. III: Heresies & Philosophies; Statism & Liberty, Ch. 176.
d. Faith & Action, Vol. II: Government, Education & Society. Vallecito, Calif.: Chalcedon/Ross House Books, 2019: Ch. 191.
6. Other
Davis, Pt. 2, Ch. 3, 7.
De Wesselow, Thomas. The Sign: The Shroud of Turin and the Secret of the Resurrection. New York City: Dutton, 2013: Ch. 2, 14.
Emin, Ch. 18.
Farrell & De Hart, Ch. 10.
Heer, Medieval World, Ch. 3, 8.
Holland, Tom. Dominion: The Making of the Western Mind. 2019. Rpt. London: Abacus, 2020: Ch. 10-11.
Johnson. A History of Christianity. New York City: Atheneum, 1976: Pt. 4.
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. 1.
Moosa, Ch. 21.
Podles, Leon J. The Church Impotent: The Feminization of Christianity. Dallas: Spence Publishing Co., 1999: Ch. 6-8.
Rahn, Otto. Crusade Against the Grail: The Struggle Between the Cathars, the Templars, and the Church of Rome, 3rd corr. ed. Trans. and Ed. Christopher Jones. Rochester, Vt.: Inner Traditions, 2006: Pt. 1, 3-4.
Rothbard, History of Economic Thought, Pt. 2, Ch. 6; Pt. 3, Ch. 6-7.
Rushby, Kevin. Paradise: A History of the Idea That Rules the World. 2006. Rpt. New York City: Carroll & Graf Publishers, 2007: Ch. 5.
Silverberg, Robert. The Realm of Prester John, rev. ed. London: Phoenix Press, 2001: Ch. 1-2.
Sklar, Dusty [Ethel Kwalbrun Sklar]. The Nazis and the Occult. Rpt. New York City: Dorset Press, 1977: Ch. 14.
Stark, Rodney. The Victory of Reason: How Christianity Led to Freedom, Capitalism, and Western Success. New York City: Random House, 2005: Ch. 4-6.
Tyerman, Ch. 18, 20-21, 25-26.
Walsh, William Thomas. Characters of the Inquisition. 1940. Rpt. Whitefish, Mont.: Kessinger Publications, 2007: Ch. 2-4.
Wilson, Ian. The Shroud, 2nd rev. ed. London: Bantam Press, 2010: Ch. 14-15.
Woods, Ch. 5, 8.
1. Food
Balinska, Maria. The Bagel: The Surprising History of a Modest Bread. New Haven, Conn.: Yale UP, 2008: Ch. 1-2.
Wex, Michael. Rhapsody in Schmaltz: Yiddish Food and Why We Can’t Stop Eating It. New York City: St. Martin’s Press, 2016: Ch. 7.
2. Kevin B. MacDonald
a. Separation and Its Discontents: Toward an Evolutionary Theory of Anti-Semitism, rev. ed. Bloomington, Ind.: 1st Books, 2004: Ch. 4.
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3. Others
Dimont, Max I. Jews, God and History, rev. ed. New York City: New American Library, 1994: Ch. 21.
Epstein, Edward Jay. The Rise and Fall of Diamonds: The Shattering of a Brilliant Illusion. New York City: Simon and Schuster, 1982: Ch. 8.
Horowitz, Elliott. Reckless Rites: Purim and the Legacy of Jewish Violence. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton UP, 2006: Ch. 4, 9-10.
Jones, E. Michael. The Jewish Revolutionary Spirit and Its Impact on World History. Sound Bend, Ind.: Fidelity Press, 2008: Ch. 3-4.
Marcus, Jacob Rader. The Rise and Destiny of the German Jew: With a Postmortem, rev. ed. New York City: Ktav Publishing House, 1973: Ch. 8-11, 14, 18-19.
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Peters, Ch. 5.
Scholem, Gershom. Origins of the Kabbalah, 2nd rev. ed. Ed. R.J. Zwi Werblowsky. Trans. Allan Arkush. Philadelphia: Jewish Publication Society/Princeton UP, 1987.
Webster, Ch. 8.
1. China
Comber, Leon F. Chinese Secret Societies in Malaya: A Survey of the Triad Society From 1800 to 1900. Locust Valley, N.Y.: Association for Asian Studies/J.J. Augustin, 1959: Ch. 2.
Hung, Ho-Fung. City on the Edge: Hong Kong Under Chinese Rule. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge UP, 2022: Ch. 2.
Schwartz, Daniel, and Zhenwen Luo. The Great Wall of China: With 149 Duotone Photographs and 6 Maps, rev. ed. London: Thames & Hudson, 2001: Ch. 1-6, 8, 10.
2. Robert Silverberg
a. Lost Cities and Vanished Civilizations. Radnor, Pa.: Chilton Book Co., 1962: Ch. 6.
b. The Realm of Prester John, Ch. 3.
3. Other
Bergreen, Marco Polo, Ch. 5-14.
Dicker, Herman. Wanderers and Settlers in the Far East: A Century of Jewish Life in China and Japan. New York City: Twayne Publishers, 1962: Ch. 6.
Milton, Ch. 11.
Sykes, Ella Constance, and Brig. Gen. Percy Sykes. Through Deserts and Oases of Central Asia. 1920. Rpt. Whitefish, Mont.: Kessinger Publishing, 2007: Ch. 14.
1. Literature
a. The Divine Comedy
Alighieri, Dante. The Divine Comedy, Vol. I-III. Trans. Robin Kirkpatrick. London: Penguin, 2006-07.
Farrell & De Hart, Ch. 9.
Montanelli & Gervaso, Ch. 7.
Tosches. In The Hand Of Dante. Boston: Little, Brown and Co., 2002.
b. Other
Ford, Ford Madox [Hueffer]. The March of Literature: From Confucius' Day to Our Own. 1938. Rpt. Normal, Ill.: Dalkey Archive Press, 1998: Vol. I, Pt. 3, Ch. 5; Pt. 4, Ch. 1.
Heer, Medieval World, Ch. 15.
Ziolkowski, Jan M. Fairy Tales From Before Fairy Tales: The Medieval Latin Past of Wonderful Lies. Ann Arbor, Mich.: U of Michigan P, 2007: Ch. 5-6.
2. Music
Crosby, Alfred W. The Measure of Reality: Quantification and Western Society, 1250-1600. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge UP, 1997: Ch. 8.
Gioia, Ted. Music: A Subversive History. New York City: Basic Books, 2019: Ch. 12-13, 16.
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.
Wallace, Carol McD. et al. Dance: A Very Social History. New York City: The Metropolitan Museum of Art/Rizzoli, 1986: Ch. 2.
3. Painting
Crosby, Ch. 9.
Grebe, Anja, Henri Loyrette, and Erich Lessing. The Louvre: All the Paintings. Ed. Vincent Pomarède. New York City: Black Dog & Leventhal, 2011.
4. Other
Heer, Medieval World, Ch. 16.
DeConde, Alexander. Gun Violence in America: The Struggle for Control. Boston: Northeastern UP, 2001: Ch. 1.
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.
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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.
Tyerman, Ch. 16.
Beard, Miriam. A History of Business, Vol. I: From Babylon to the Monopolists. 1938. Rpt. Ann Arbor, Mich.: U of Michigan P, 1962: Ch. 4.
Bewes, Wyndham Anstis. The Romance of the Law Merchant: Being an Introduction to the Study of International and Commercial Law, With Some Account of the Commerce and Fairs of the Middle Ages. London: Sweet & Maxwell, 1923.
Crosby, Ch. 10.
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. 3, 5-7, 10.
Schweikart, Larry, and Lynne Pierson Doti. American Entrepreneur: The Fascinating Story of the People Who Defined Business in the United States, rev. ed. New York City: AMACOM, 2010: Ch. 2.
Spahr, Walter Earl. The Clearing and Collection of Checks. New York City: The Bankers Publishing Co., 1926: Ch. 1, 3.
Clements, Jonathan. A Brief History of Khubilai Khan. London: Robinson, 2010.
Hopkirk, Peter. The Great Game: The Struggle for Empire in Central Asia, rev. ed. New York City: Kodansha International, 1992: Ch. 1.
Runciman, Vol. III, Pt. 3, Ch. 1, 3.
Weatherford, J. McIver. Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World. 2004. Rpt. New York City: Three Rivers Press, 2005.
Wing, Patrick. The Jalayirids: Dynastic State Formation in the Mongol Middle East. Edinburgh, U.K.: Edinburgh UP, 2016.
Chandler, David Leon. Brothers in Blood: The Rise of the Criminal Brotherhoods. New York City: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1975: Pt. 1; Appendix A.
Maurer, David W. The American Confidence Man, 2nd rev. ed. Springfield, Ill.: Charles C. Thomas Publisher, 1974: Ch. 10.
W. Tucker, Ch. 16.
Bramley, William. The Gods of Eden: A New Look at Human History, rev. ed. 1990. Rpt. New York City: Avon Books, 1990: Ch. 18.
Cantor, Norman F. In the Wake of the Plague: The Black Death and the World It Made. New York City: The Free Press, 2001.
Scheidel, Walter. The Great Leveler: Violence and the History of Inequality From the Stone Age to the Twenty-First Century. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton UP, 2017: Ch. 10.
1. Realm of the Ring Lords: The Ancient Legacy of the Ring and the Grail. 2000. Rpt. London: Element, 2004: Appendix 4.
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3. Shadow of Solomon, Ch. 16.
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1. The Absolute Beneath the Relative and Other Essays. Lanham, Md.: UP of America/The Intercollegiate Studies Institute, 1988: Ch. 9.
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1. The Walking Drum, Ch. 1-2, 35-42.
2. Louis L'Amour's Lost Treasures, Vol. II: More Mysterious Stories, Unfinished Manuscripts, and Lost Notes From One of the World's Most Popular Novelists. Ed. Beau L'Amour. New York City: Bantam Books, 2019.
1. An Austrian Perspective on the History of Economic Thought, Vol. I, Pt. 2, Ch. 4; Pt. 3, Ch. 2-5, 8-9; 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.
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Adams, Ch. 22.
Anderson, Walter Truett. Reality Isn’t What It Used to Be: Theatrical Politics, Ready-to-Wear Religion, Global Myths, Primitive Chic, and Other Wonders of the Postmodern World. San Francisco: Harper & Row, 1990: Ch. 5.
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Baigent et al., Ch. 4, 11.
Barry, Ch. 8.
Bergreen, Marco Polo, Ch. 2-4.
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Bramley, Ch. 19.
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Casey, Ch. 12.
Crosby, Ch. 1-7.
Davis, Pt. 2, Ch. 4-5, 9.
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Dugard, Ch. 4, 6.
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Fletcher, Ch. 3-4, 11, 14, 21.
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Gibbon, Vol. III, Ch. 64-65, 67, 69.
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Heer, Medieval World, Ch. 1-2, 4-5, 7, 11-14.
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Scheidel, Ch. 8.
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Tuchman, Ch. 2-5, 9-13, 18, 20-27.
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