Author(s): Philippe Gigantes

History

This volume deals with human greed and power in every era and every culture, and how they determine world events. Gigantes takes the reader on a journey through time, introducing on the one hand the great rule makers for just society and on the other the rule-breakers, or "Grand Acquisitors". Motivated by greed the "Grand Acquisitors" use every means fair and foul to acquire morre than their share - from the warring chieftains of early societies to the so-called robber barons of the nineteenth century and in our own times, the emergence of the superpower states.