Enemy Of All Mankind

Resumen del libro

Most confrontations, viewed from the wide angle of history, are minor disputes, sparks that quickly die out. But every now and then, someone strikes a match that lights up the whole planet. How did a single manhunt spark the modern era of multinational capitalism? 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.

Biografía del autor

Steven Berlin Johnson (1968) está considerado uno de los más originales autores de divulgación científica. Ha trabajado como columnista en gran cantidad de publicaciones, entre las que se destacan The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Financial Times, Discover y Wired. Es autor de doce libros, entre los que se cuentan Enemy of All Mankind, Farsighted, The Invention of Air y How We Got to Now, publicado por Ediciones Granica bajo el título La conquista de la actualidad.