Categories: General & World History Social & Cultural History Monetary Economics Monetary Economics Financial Crises & Disasters Financial Crises & Disasters Economic History Economic History


The Square and the Tower : Networks, Hierarchies and the Struggle for Global Power
3.65 (3,577 ratings by Goodreads)
Paperback English
By (author) Niall Ferguson


THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
Silicon Valley needed a history lesson and Ferguson has provided it Eric Schmidt

Most history is about the people at the top of the towers of power. But what if the real action is in the social networks down below, in the town squares? Niall Ferguson, the international bestselling author of Empire, The Ascent of Money and Civilization, brilliantly recasts past and present as an unending contest between hierarchies and networks.

Provocative, snappy, a rare book ... fasten your seatbelts Peter Frankopan, Daily Telegraph

Immensely stimulating, absorbing, illuminating ... sends ideas blazing all over the place ... one of the best popular historians of our time David Goodhart, Prospect

Powerful, fast-paced ... a pull-yourself-together warning to the present by way of arresting historical precedent Andrew Anthony, Guardian

Captivating and compelling Jonathan A. Knee, The New York Times


Product details

Format Paperback | 608 pages
Dimensions 129 x 198 x 26mm | 438g
Publication date 07 Jun 2018
Publisher Penguin Books Ltd
Publication City/Country London, United Kingdom
Language English
ISBN13 9780141984810
Bestsellers rank 8,097