The Age of Interconnection by Jonathan Sperber review - a breathless race through recent history

This sweeping survey of the post-war period contains fascinating insights but lacks an organising principle It takes chutzpah to write a synoptic history of the world in the second half of the 20th century, a period within living memory of the reading public. But it is a history Jonathan Sperber handles with brio, summoning evidence from personal anecdotes and high theory, vignettes and statistics. In its range of themes and reconstructions, The Age of Interconnection invites favourable comparis...