Merchant, Soldier, Sage by David Priestland
We live in an age ruled by merchants. Competition, flexibility and profit are still the common currency, even at a time when Western countries have been driven off a cliff by these very values. But will it always be this way? This title offers a dissection of our predicament and a brilliant piece of history.
Concise but extremely ambitious.. well worth pondering and reflecting on ... among the many contributions to the dissection of our current predicament, this is surely one of the most thought-provoking -- Sir Richard J Evans * Guardian *
We have here a gripping, argument-led history, efforlessly moving between New York, Tokyo and Berlin, from the Reformation to the 2008 economic crisis ... dazzling ... here, at last, is a work that places the current crisis in a longer history of seismic shifts in the balance of social power -- Frank Trentman * BBC History Magazine *
Lively and opinionated * Economist *
Stimulating ... In illustrating these larger processes of caste conflict and caste collaboration, the author offers crisp portraits of entrepreneurs, economists and warriors ... Sparkling prose and ... arresting comparisons -- Ramachandra Guha * Financial Times *
In his controversial new book, [Priestland] claims that while the bankers might have drive us to this point, the values they espouse are now more or less universal ... Priestland has worked out an intriguing way of analysing society ... This is a refreshing description of society, and a thought-provoking one ... it a real attempt to break out of established ways of thinking, and should be applauded * Mail on Sunday *
Diverting and provocative -- Dominic Sandbrook * Sunday Times *
Very readable ... [Priestland's] studies of Communism have given him an enviable grasp of 19th- and 20th-century developments across the globe, and he writes with such verve ... Priestland casts an intriguing glimmer of light on what may be ahead * Independent Radar Book of the Week *
We have here a gripping, argument-led history, efforlessly moving between New York, Tokyo and Berlin, from the Reformation to the 2008 economic crisis ... dazzling ... here, at last, is a work that places the current crisis in a longer history of seismic shifts in the balance of social power -- Frank Trentman * BBC History Magazine *
Lively and opinionated * Economist *
Stimulating ... In illustrating these larger processes of caste conflict and caste collaboration, the author offers crisp portraits of entrepreneurs, economists and warriors ... Sparkling prose and ... arresting comparisons -- Ramachandra Guha * Financial Times *
In his controversial new book, [Priestland] claims that while the bankers might have drive us to this point, the values they espouse are now more or less universal ... Priestland has worked out an intriguing way of analysing society ... This is a refreshing description of society, and a thought-provoking one ... it a real attempt to break out of established ways of thinking, and should be applauded * Mail on Sunday *
Diverting and provocative -- Dominic Sandbrook * Sunday Times *
Very readable ... [Priestland's] studies of Communism have given him an enviable grasp of 19th- and 20th-century developments across the globe, and he writes with such verve ... Priestland casts an intriguing glimmer of light on what may be ahead * Independent Radar Book of the Week *
David Priestland has studied Communism in all its forms for many years, in both Oxford and Moscow State Universities. He is University Lecturer in Modern History at Oxford and a Fellow of St. Edmund Hall, and the author of Stalinism and the Politics of Mobilization. The Red Flag was shortlisted for the Longman/History Today prize.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781846144851 |
| ISBN 10 | 184614485X |
| Title | Merchant, Soldier, Sage |
| Author | David Priestland |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Year published | 2012-08-30 |
| Number of pages | 352 |
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