Open AccessDe redes, jerarquías y conspiraciones, o cómo se fabrica un bestseller historico neoconservador
Author(s) -
Antonio Viñao Frago
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
historia y memoria de la educación
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2444-0043
DOI - 10.5944/hme.13.2021.28462
Subject(s) - ideology , historiography , relevance (law) , power (physics) , field (mathematics) , sociology , service (business) , work (physics) , history , humanities , politics , political science , art , law , engineering , archaeology , mechanical engineering , physics , mathematics , economy , quantum mechanics , pure mathematics , economics
This critical essay is an extensive commentary-analysis of the work of historian Niall Ferguson entitled The Square and the Tower. Networks and Power from the Freemasons to Facebook translated and published in Spanish in 2018. The book is located, according to its author, on an intermediate path between dominant historiography, which has tended to underestimate the importance of networks, and conspiracy theorists, who usually exaggerate it. Its central purpose is to highlight the relevance that social networks have had and have in historical events and processes. The analysis carried out here is intended to unravel how this work is a good example, from the United States neoconservative field, of making a historic bestseller at the service of that ideology.