The Square and the Tower
Networks, Hierarchies and the Struggle for Global Power

Kategorie: Bücher
Seiten / Format: 608 S
Erscheinungsjahr: 2018
Verlag: Penguin Books UK
Sprache: Englisch
ISBN: 9780141984810

Throughout history our societies have worked through networks and Ferguson's new book is a history of this remarkable aspect of human existence, from the networks that first allowed us to explore the oceans to today's hyper-linked world. He argues that networks have always been with us. Hierarchies rule, but networks innovate and make it possible that revolutionary ideas can contagiously spread.

THENEW YORK TIMESBESTSELLER<br>'Silicon Valley needed a history lesson and Ferguson has provided it'Eric Schmidt<br><br>Most history is about the people at the top of the towers of power. But what if the real action is in the social networks down below, in the town squares? Niall Ferguson, the international bestselling author ofEmpire, The Ascent of MoneyandCivilization, brilliantly recasts past and present as an unending contest between hierarchies and networks.<br><br>'Provocative, snappy, a rare book ... fasten your seatbelts'Peter Frankopan,Daily Telegraph<br><br>'Immensely stimulating, absorbing, illuminating ... sends ideas blazing all over the place ... one of the best popular historians of our time'David Goodhart,Prospect<br><br>'Powerful, fast-paced ... a pull-yourself-together warning to the present by way of arresting historical precedent'Andrew Anthony,Guardian<br><br>'Captivating and compelling'Jonathan A. Knee,The New York Times

2GBNiall Fergusonis one of Britain's most renowned historians. He is the Milbank Family Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University, a senior faculty fellow of the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard, and a visiting professor at Tsinghua University, Beijing. His most recent book isThe Square and the Tower.

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