The Square and the Tower, by Niall Ferguson
Context with Brad Harris
English - February 07, 2019 10:00 - 38 minutes - 59.1 MB - ★★★★★ - 440 ratingsHistory Education history Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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Niall Ferguson, perhaps the most famous historian of our generation, offers yet another breakthrough in his latest work, The Square and the Tower. Through groundbreaking research, Ferguson reveals how social networks, from the Freemasons of the middle ages to Facebook in the 21st century, disrupt established hierarchies to divert the course of history, both for better and for worse.
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