'Big Ideas' books etc. Still need to add Braudel.
Allen, Robert C. 2011. Global Economic History: A Very Short Introduction. OUP Oxford.
Engerman, Stanley L., and Kenneth L. Sokoloff. 2012. Economic Development in the Americas Since 1500: Endowments and Institutions. Cambridge University Press.
Federico, Giovanni. 2010. Feeding the World: An Economic History of Agriculture, 1800-2000. Princeton University Press.
Greif, Avner. 2006. Institutions and the Path to the Modern Economy: Lessons from Medieval Trade. Cambridge University Press.
Herlihy, David. 1997. The Black Death and the Transformation of the West. Harvard University Press.
Iyigun, Murat. 2015. War, Peace & Prosperity in the Name of God: The Ottoman Role in Europe’s Socioeconomic Evolution. University of Chicago Press.
Kuran, Timur. 2012. The Long Divergence: How Islamic Law Held Back the Middle East. Princeton University Press.
McCloskey, Deirdre N. 2011. Bourgeois Dignity: Why Economics Can’t Explain the Modern World. University of Chicago Press.
Mitterauer, Michael. 2010. Why Europe?: The Medieval Origins of Its Special Path. University of Chicago Press.
Mokyr, Joel. 2011. The Gifts of Athena: Historical Origins of the Knowledge Economy. Princeton University Press.
O’Rourke, Kevin H., and Jeffrey G. Williamson. 2001. Globalization and History: The Evolution of a Nineteenth-Century Atlantic Economy. MIT Press.
Pomeranz, Kenneth. 2021. The Great Divergence: China, Europe, and the Making of the Modern World Economy. Princeton University Press.
Williamson, Jeffrey G. 2013. Trade and Poverty: When the Third World Fell Behind. MIT Press.