A great intellectual force in our world, Berlin, is the Brit who helped us all to realize the power of ideas and the futility of ideology. There is a review in the Financial Times of a book of his collected early writings.
Joyce Appleby: Liberalism and Republicanism in the Historical Imagination
Niall Ferguson: The House of Rothschild: Money's Prophets, 1798-1848
Jonathan Israel: The Dutch Republic: Its Rise, Greatness, and Fall 1477-1806
Jerry Z. Muller: The Mind and the Market : Capitalism in Modern European Thought