Description
Product ID: | 9780241955215 |
Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
Country of Manufacture: | GB |
Title: | Merchant, Soldier, Sage |
Subtitle: | A New History of Power |
Authors: | Author: Professor David Priestland |
Page Count: | 352 |
Subjects: | Social and cultural history, Social & cultural history, Social groups, communities and identities, Political structure and processes, Social groups, Political structure & processes |
Description: | Select Guide Rating 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. From historian David Priestland, this is remarkable book proposes a radical approach to how we see our world and who runs it |
Imprint Name: | Penguin Books Ltd |
Publisher Name: | Penguin Books Ltd |
Country of Publication: | GB |
Publishing Date: | 2013-10-03 |