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The instant New York Times bestseller. A brilliant recasting of the turning points in world history, including the one we're living through, as a collision between old power hierarchies and new social networks.“Captivating and compelling.” —The New York Times'Niall Ferguson has again written a brilliant book...In 400 pages you will have restocked your mind. Do it.'—The Wall Street Journal“The Square and the Tower, in addition to being provocative history, may prove to be a bellwether work of the Internet Age.” —Christian Science MonitorMost history is hierarchical: it's about emperors, presidents, prime ministers and field marshals. It's about states, armies and corporations. It's about orders from on high. Even history'from below'is often about trade unions and workers'parties. But what if that's simply because hierarchical institutions create the archives that historians rely on? What if we are missing the informal, less well documented social networks that are the true sources of power and drivers of change?The 21st century has been hailed as the Age of Networks. However, in The Square and the Tower, Niall Ferguson argues that networks have always been with us, from the structur

Author

Niall Ferguson

Publisher

Penguin Books

Published

2018

Language

EN

ISBN

9780735222939

Subjects

History, Sociology, Science

Rating

4.2 / 5 (1,138 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14