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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.

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THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
´Silicon Valley needed a history lesson and Ferguson has provided it´ Eric Schmidt

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 of Empire, The Ascent of Money and Civilization, brilliantly recasts past and present as an unending contest between hierarchies and networks.

´Provocative, snappy, a rare book ... fasten your seatbelts´ Peter Frankopan, Daily Telegraph

´Immensely stimulating, absorbing, illuminating ... sends ideas blazing all over the place ... one of the best popular historians of our time´ David Goodhart, Prospect

´Powerful, fast-paced ... a pull-yourself-together warning to the present by way of arresting historical precedent´ Andrew Anthony, Guardian

´Captivating and compelling´ Jonathan A. Knee, The New York Times

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Ferguson, Niall
Niall Ferguson is 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. He is the author of fifteen books, including The Pity of War, The House of Rothschild, Empire, Civilization and Kissinger, 1923-1968: The Idealist, which won the Council on Foreign Relations Arthur Ross Prize. He is an award-making filmmaker, too, having won an international Emmy for his PBS series The Ascent of Money. His many other prizes include the Benjamin Franklin Prize for Public Service (2010), the Hayek Prize for Lifetime Achievement (2012) and the Ludwig Erhard Prize for Economic Journalism (2013). He writes a weekly column for the Sunday Times, for which he was named Columnist of the Year at the 2018 British Press Awards.

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