Enemy of All Mankind
ISBN-13: 9780593187616
Contributor(s): Steven Johnson
Subject: History
Publisher Imprint: Riverhead
Publication Date: 21-05-2020
Format: Paperback
Availability: Out of stock
£16.99
About the book
Henry Avery was the seventeenth century's most notorious pirate. The press published wildly popular - and wildly inaccurate - reports of his nefarious adventures. The British government offered enormous bounties for his capture, alive or (preferably) dead. But Steven Johnson argues that Avery's most lasting legacy was his inadvertent triggering of a new model for the global economy. Johnson uses the extraordinary story of Henry Avery and his crimes to explore the emergence of the modern global marketplace: a densely interconnected planet ruled by nations and corporations.