Table of Contents
List of Illustrations xi
List of Plates xvii
Preface: The Networked Historian xix
Part I Introduction: Networks and Hierarchies
1 The Mystery of the Illuminati 3
2 Our Networked Age 10
3 Networks, Networks Everywhere 15
4 Why Hierarchies? 21
5 From Seven Bridges to Six Degrees 24
6 Weak Ties and Viral Ideas 30
7 Varieties of Network 36
8 When Networks Meet 42
9 Seven Insights 46
10 The Illuminati Illuminated 49
Part II Emperors and Explorers
11 A Brief History of Hierarchy 59
12 The First Networked Age 65
13 The Art of the Renaissance Deal 68
14 Discoverers 71
15 Pizarro and the Inca 77
16 When Gutenberg Met Luther 82
Part III Letters and Lodges
17 The Economic Consequences of the Reformation 93
18 Trading Ideas 95
19 Networks of Enlightenment 101
20 Networks of Revolution 106
Part IV The Restoration of Hierarchy
21 The Red and the Black 121
22 From Crowd to Tyranny 124
23 Order Restored 129
24 The House of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha 134
25 The House of Rothschild 138
26 Industrial Networks 145
27 From Pentarchy to Hegemony 151
Part V Knights of the Round Table
28 An Imperial Life 155
29 Empire 158
30 Taiping 168
31 The Chinese Must Go' 173
32 The Union of South Africa 179
33 Apostles 186
34 Armageddon 193
Part VI Plagues and Pipers
35 Greenmantle 201
36 The Plague 213
37 The Leader Principle 222
38 The Fall of the Golden International 226
39 The Ring of Five 236
40 Brief Encounter 246
41 Ella in Reform School 254
Part VII Own the Jungle
42 The Long Peace 267
43 The General 270
44 The Crisis of Complexity 277
45 Henry Kissinger's Network of Power 284
46 Into the Valley 299
47 The Fall of the Soviet Empire 306
48 The Triumph of Davos Man 311
49 Breaking the Bank of England 316
Part VIII The Library of Babel
50 9/11/2001 333
51 9/15/2008 341
52 The Administrative State 347
53 Web 2.0 351
54 Coming Apart 360
55 Tweeting the Revolution 365
56 11/9/2016 380
Part IX Conclusion: Facing Cyberia
57 Metropolis 393
58 Network Outage 396
59 FANG, BAT and EU 412
60 The Square and the Tower Redux 419
Afterword: The Original Square and Tower 425
Appendix 433
References 439
Bibliography 493
Index 537