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. But in The Square and the Tower, Niall Ferguson argues that social networks are nothing new.
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 21st century has been hailed as the Networked Age. Most history is hierarchical: it's about popes, presidents, and prime ministers.
What if everything we thought we knew about history was wrong? From the global best-selling author of Empire, The Ascent of Money and Civilization, this is a whole new way of looking at the world. Penguin presents the audiobook edition of The Square and the Tower by Niall Ferguson.
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