Books by John Montgomery

Originally published in 1954, this was the first factual history of comedy films and the men and women who had since 1894 kept us laughing in the cinema. This edition, first published in 1968 has been revised but the period it covers remains the same, 1894-1954, sixty years of film humour.

The ancient Maya civilisation of Mesoamerica was one of five in the history of the world to invent an original, functional writing system. Maya scribes documented the history of their civilisation in hieroglyphic script, yet by the nineteenth century there was not a single person left who could read this pictorial writing.

Countering the many claims that the best days of capitalism are over following the economic meltdown of 2008 onwards, this book argues that a golden age of capitalism - or upwave - began around 2002, and despite the unstable markets in the western world of the past few years, this upwave will produce unseen levels of wealth creation.

Offers a look at the dynamics of the city, that is, how cities work in relation to the long cycles of economic development and suggests that a wave of prosperity, built on technologies and industries, is just getting underway in the Western world.