Dimensions
153 x 234 x 14mm
One of the great puzzles of history is how best to explain the fate of nations - the wheel of fortune that raises up some and throws down others. There are a bewildering range of explanations, mostly contradicting one another, and embracing everything from climate to resources, from technology to plain luck. All societies are linked however by perhaps the most remarkable, tangled and elaborate of human inventions - the institutions that hold us together.
In his fascinating new book, Niall Ferguson dramatizes the overwhelming importance of the structures that allow us to be governed, to trade and to legally protect ourselves and--at the heart of it all--the host of ways in which we create 'civil society', joining and engaging with whatever really matters to us.
The Rule of Law and Its Enemies is an attempt to explain what it is that makes us human - how we come together to build our societies and how we succeed or fail in making the structures that allow us to be happy, secure and fulfilled. In a rapidly changing world, there can be no more important subject.
