List of IllustrationsList of PlatesPreface: The Networked HistorianI: Introduction: Networks and Hierarchies1: The Mystery of the Illuminati2: Our Networked Age3: Networks, Networks Everywhere4: Why Hierarchies?5: From Seven Bridges to Six Degrees6: Weak Ties and Viral Ideas7: Varieties of Network8: When Networks Meet9: Seven Insights10: The Illuminati IlluminatedII: Emperors and Explorers11: A Brief History of Hierarchy12: The First Networked Age13: The Art of the Renaissance Deal14: Discoverers15: Pizarro and the Inca16: When Gutenberg Met LutherIII: Letters and Lodges17: The Economic Consequences of the Reformation18: Trading Ideas19: Networks of Enlightenment20: Networks of RevolutionIV: The Restoration of Hierarchy21: The Red and the Black22: From Crowd to Tyranny23: Order Restored24: The House of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha25: The House of Rothschild26: Industrial Networks27: From Pentarchy to HegemonyV: Knights of the Round Table28: An Imperial Life29: Empire30: Taiping31: ‘The Chinese Must Go’32: The Union of South Africa33: Apostles34: ArmageddonVI: Plagues and Pipers35: Greenmantle36: The Plague37: The Leader Principle38: The Fall of the Golden International39: The Ring of Five40: Brief Encounter41: Ella in Reform SchoolVII: Own the Jungle42: The Long Peace43: The General44: The Crisis of Complexity45: Henry Kissinger’s Network of Power46: Into the Valley47: The Fall of the Soviet Empire48: The Triumph of Davos Man49: Breaking the Bank of EnglandVIII: The Library of Babel50: 9/11/200151: 9/15/200852: The Administrative State53: Web 2.054: Coming Apart55: Tweeting the Revolution56: 11/9/2016IX: Conclusion: Facing Cyberia57: Metropolis58: Network Outage59: FANG, BAT and EU60: The Square and the Tower ReduxAfterwordAppendixReferencesBibliographyIndex