The square and the tower: history's hidden networks
(Adult Book)
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London Allen Lane, 2017.
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400 pages 24 cm
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City Library - Non-fiction
302.309
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302.309
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Published
London Allen Lane, 2017.
Format
Adult Book
Language
English
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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 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.
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