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The Square and the Tower: Networks, Hierarchies and the Struggle for Global Power by Niall Ferguson (Hardcover, 2017)

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Explore the dynamics of global power with Niall Ferguson's 'The Square and the Tower: Networks, Hierarchies and the Struggle for Global Power.' Delve into an intellectual journey through history and economics, examining the pivotal moments and forces that have shaped our world. This 608-page hardcover edition, published by Penguin Books LTD in 2017, is a treasure trove for enthusiasts of both disciplines and learners alike. Crafted with care in the United Kingdom, this textbook stands at 240 mm tall, with a width of 162 mm, and weighs a substantial 1072 g. Its ISBN-13 is 9780241290460. Its comprehensive content is presented in clear English, making it a valuable addition to any academic collection or personal library seeking to understand the intricacies of historical and economic strife.

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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.