The hidden globe : how wealth hacks the world
Abrahamian, Atossa Araxia2026
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Borders draw one map of the world; money draws another. A journalist's riveting account exposes a parallel universe exempt from the laws of the land, and how the wealthy and powerful benefit from it. The map of the globe shows the world we think we know: sovereign nations that grant and restrict their citizens' rights. Beneath, above, and tucked inside its neatly delineated borders, however, a parallel universe has been engineered into existence, consisting of thousands of extraterritorial zones that operate largely autonomously, increasingly for the benefit of the wealthy and powerful. Atossa Abrahamian traces the rise of the hidden globe to thirteenth-century Switzerland, where poor cantons marketed the commodity they had-bodies, in the form of mercenary fighters.
Main title:
The hidden globe : how wealth hacks the world / Atossa Araxia Abrahamian.
Author:
Abrahamian, Atossa Araxia, author
Imprint:
London : Picador, 2026.
Collation:
336 pages ; 20 cm
ISBN:
9781529058376 (pbk. :)
Dewey class:
330.9
Language:
English
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BRN:
9059101
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