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Merchant, Soldier, Sage: A New History of Power
David Priestland
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Description for Merchant, Soldier, Sage: A New History of Power
paperback. 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 argues for the predominance in any society of one of three broad value systems - that of the merchant; the soldier; and the sage. Num Pages: 352 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: HBTB; JFS; JPH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 197 x 131 x 20. Weight in Grams: 260.
From historian David Priestland, this is remarkable book proposes a radical approach to how we see our world and who runs it
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?
David Priestland argues for the predominance in any society of one of three broad value systems - that of the merchant (commercial and competitive); the soldier (aristocratic and militaristic); and the sage ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Penguin
Condition
New
Number of Pages
352
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780241955215
SKU
9780241955215
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Ref
99-1
About David Priestland
David Priestland is the author of the widely-praised and internationally acclaimed The Red Flag: Communism and the Making of the Modern World. While researching The Red Flag it became clear that it was neither Marx's 'classes', nor Huntingdon's clashing civilizations, nor even Fukuyama's competing ideologies that drove historical change, but 'caste struggle'. Merchant, Soldier, Sage is the result. ... Read more
Reviews for Merchant, Soldier, Sage: A New History of Power
A gripping, argument-led history ... 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
Stimulating ... In illustrating these larger processes of caste conflict and caste collaboration, the author offers crisp portraits of entrepreneurs, economists ... Read more
Frank Trentman
BBC History Magazine
Stimulating ... In illustrating these larger processes of caste conflict and caste collaboration, the author offers crisp portraits of entrepreneurs, economists ... Read more