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The square and the tower : networks and power, from the Freemasons to Facebook  Cover Image Book Book

The square and the tower : networks and power, from the Freemasons to Facebook / Niall Ferguson.

Ferguson, Niall, (author.).

Summary:

A reevaluation of history's turning points as collisions between old power hierarchies and new social networks explains how networks have always existed and have been responsible for key innovations and revolutionary ideas.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9780735222915 (hardcover)
  • Physical Description: xxvii, 563 pages : illustrations (some colour), colour maps ; 25 cm
  • Publisher: New York : Penguin Press, 2018.

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Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 436-536) and index.
Subject: Social networks > History.

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  • 1 of 1 copy available at Tsuga Consortium.

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Cookstown Branch 302.309 Fer 31681010083566 NONFIC Available -

Niall Ferguson is one of the world's most renowned historians. He is the author of Paper and Iron, The House of Rothschild, The Pity of War, The Cash Nexus, Empire, Colossus, The War of the World, The Ascent of Money, High Financier, Civilization, The Great Degeneration, Kissinger, 1923-1968: The Idealist, and The Square and the Tower. He is Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University, and a Visiting Professor at Tsinghua University, Beijing. His many awards 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).


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