(P/B) THE SQUARE AND THE TOWER

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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. (From the publisher)

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List of Illustrations
List of Plates
Preface: The Networked Historian
PART I Introduction: Networks and Hierarchies
1. The Mystery of the Illuminati
2. Our Networked Age
3. Networks, Networks Everywhere
4. Why Hierarchies?
5. From Seven Bridges to Six Degrees
6. Weak Ties and Viral Ideas
7. Varieties of Network
8. When Networks Meet
9. Seven Insights
10. The Illuminati Illuminated
PART II Emperors and Explorers
11. A Brief History of Hierarchy
12. The First Networked Age
13. The Art of the Renaissance Deal
14. Discoverers
15. Pizarro and the Inca
16. When Gutenberg Met Luther
PART III Letters and Lodges
17. The Economic Consequences of the Reformation
18. Trading Ideas
19. Networks of Enlightenment
20. Networks of Revolution
PART IV The Restoration of Hierarchy
21. The Red and the Black
22. From Crowd to Tyranny
23. Order Restored
24. The House of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha
25. The House of Rothschild
26. Industrial Networks
27. From Pentarchy to Hegemony
PART V Knights of the Round Table
28. An Imperial Life
29. Empire
30. Taiping
31. 'The Chinese Must Go'
32. The Union of South Africa
33. Apostles
34. Armageddon
PART VI Plagues and Pipers
35. Greenmantle
36. The Plague
37. The Leader Principle
38. The Fall of the Golden International
39. The Ring of Five
40. Brief Encounter
41. Ella in Reform School
PART VII Own the Jungle
42. The Long Peace
43. The General
44. The Crisis of Complexity
45. Henry Kissinger's Network of Power
46. Into the Valley
47. The Fall of the Soviet Empire
48. The Triumph of Davos Man
49. Breaking the Bank of England
PART VIII The Library of Babel
50. 9/11/2001
51. 9/15/2008
52. The Administrative State
53. Web 2.0
54. Coming Apart
55. Tweeting the Revolution
56. 11/9/2016
PART IX Conclusion: Facing Cyberia
57. Metropolis
58. Network Outage
59. FANG, BAT and EU
60. The Square and the Tower Redux
Afterword: The Original Square and Tower
Appendix
References
Bibliography
Index