The Square and the Tower
Networks, Hierarchies and the Struggle for Global Power
$26.90
- Paperback
608 pages
- Release Date
18 June 2018
Summary
The new bestseller that shows why everything we thought we knew about history was wrong.
“The most brilliant historian of his generation.” - The Times
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 twen…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780141984810 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0141984813 |
| Author: | Niall Ferguson |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 608 |
| Release Date: | 18 June 2018 |
| Weight: | 444g |
| Dimensions: | 196mm x 129mm x 28mm |
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About The Author
Niall Ferguson
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 was named Columnist of the Year at the 2018 British Press Awards.
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