Reading failure

I just can't do it. I can't make myself read John A. Hall's Powers and Liberties. No one gives a shit about his "philosophical history" anymore, if they ever did. Maybe this is more of a thing among British sociologists (I think it might be, I feel like these I've caught whiffs of this kind of pseudo-universality before), but I've certainly never felt any pressure to engage with it from teachers or based on citations in the work I read. His acknowledgements and preface reveal that this work was gestating in the same milieu as Michael Mann's History of Social Power--and it shows. Both share the same just-so story about congenital European dynamism--which is just utterly false. I think it might be because I'm inclined towards theoretical approaches that are often accused of Eurocentrism that I have a severe allergic reaction to the real thing.