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Niall Ferguson
The Square and the Tower
Networks, Hierarchies and the Struggle for Global Power
2017. 608 S. 234 mm
Verlag/Jahr: PENGUIN UK; ALLEN LANE 2017
ISBN: 0-241-29898-9 (0241298989)
Neue ISBN: 978-0-241-29898-5 (9780241298985)
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Throughout history our societies have worked through networks - of information, friendship, professions, families - Fergusonīs new book is a history of this aspect of human existence, from the networks that first allowed us to explore the oceans to todayīs hyper-linked world. He celebrates the myriad ways in which the battle between rival networks makes history happen.
īThe most brilliant British historian of his generationī The Times
What if everything we thought we knew about history was wrong? From Niall Ferguson, the global bestselling author of Empire, The Ascent of Money and Civilization, this is a whole new way of imagining the world.
Most history is hierarchical: itīs about popes, presidents, and prime ministers. But what if thatīs 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. Once we understand this, both the past, and the future, start to look very different indeed.
Niall Ferguson is one of Britainīs most renowned historians. He is the Laurence A. Tisch Professor of History at Harvard University, a Senior Fellow of the Hoover Institution, Stanford University, and a Visiting Professor at Tsinghua University, Beijing. He has written fourteen books, including The House of Rothschild, Empire, The War of the World, The Ascent of Money, The Great Degeneration and Kissinger, 1923-1968: The Idealist. His many 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).