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The Square and the Tower: Networks, Hierarchies and the Struggle for Global Power by Niall Ferguson (Paperback, 2018)
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Niall Ferguson is one of Britain's most renowned historians. He is the author of fifteen books, includingThe Pity of War ,The House of Rothschild ,Empire ,Civilization andKissinger, 1923-1968: The Idealist, which won the Council on Foreign Relations Arthur Ross Prize.
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The new bestseller that shows why everything we thought we knew about history was wrong 'The most brilliant historian of his generation' The Times Most history is hierarchical- it's about popes, presidents, and prime ministers. But what if that's simply because they create the historical archives? What if we are missing equally powerful but less visible networks - leaving them to the conspiracy theorists, with their dreams of all-powerful Illuminati? The twenty-first century has been hailed as the Networked Age. But in The Square and the Tower Niall Ferguson argues that social networks are nothing new. From the printers and preachers who made the Reformation to the freemasons who led the American Revolution, it was the networkers who disrupted the old order of popes and kings. Far from being novel, our era is the Second Networked Age, with the computer in the role of the printing press. But networks have a dark side, prone to clustering, contagions, and even outages. And the conflicts of the past already have unnerving parallels today, in the time of Facebook, Islamic State and Trumpworld.Product Identifiers
PublisherPenguin Books LTD
ISBN-139780141984810
eBay Product ID (ePID)16046865666
Product Key Features
Number of Pages608 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication NameThe Square and the Tower: Networks, Hierarchies and the Struggle for Global Power
Publication Year2018
SubjectEconomics, History
TypeTextbook
AuthorNiall Ferguson
FormatPaperback
Dimensions
Item Height198 mm
Item Weight438 g
Item Width129 mm
Additional Product Features
Country/Region of ManufactureUnited Kingdom
Title_AuthorNiall Ferguson
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- 31 May, 2023
Hard to put down, great content!
An interesting look at networking through the ages. Well written and really easy to read and hard to put down. I'm thoroughly enjoying it! Great content!Verified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-owned
- 12 May, 2024
Perfect!
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