The Pity of War, Niall Ferguson

Автор: Ferguson, Niall
Название: The Ascent of Money
ISBN: 0143116177 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780143116172
Издательство: Random House (USA)
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Описание: The 10th anniversary edition, with new chapters on the crash, Chimerica, and cryptocurrency

An] excellent, just in time guide to the history of finance and financial crisis. --The Washington Post

Fascinating. --Fareed Zakaria, Newsweek

In this updated edition, Niall Ferguson brings his classic financial history of the world up to the present day, tackling the populist backlash that followed the 2008 crisis, the descent of Chimerica into a trade war, and the advent of cryptocurrencies, such as Bitcoin, with his signature clarity and expert lens.

The Ascent of Money reveals finance as the backbone of history, casting a new light on familiar events: the Renaissance enabled by Italian foreign exchange dealers, the French Revolution traced back to a stock market bubble, the 2008 crisis traced from America's bankruptcy capital, Memphis, to China's boomtown, Chongqing. We may resent the plutocrats of Wall Street but, as Ferguson argues, the evolution of finance has rivaled the importance of any technological innovation in the rise of civilization. Indeed, to study the ascent and descent of money is to study the rise and fall of Western power itself.

Автор: Niall Ferguson
Название: The War of the World
ISBN: 0141013826 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780141013824
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Описание: The beginning of the twentieth century saw human civilization at its most enlightened, well-educated, globalized and wealthy. What turned it into a bloodbath? This title reveals the story of history`s most savage century as a continual war that raged for 100 years. He reveals how economic boom-and-bust, decaying empires and, more.

Автор: Niall Ferguson
Название: Kissinger: 1923-1968: The Idealist
ISBN: 0713998709 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780713998702
Издательство: Random House
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Описание: Drawing not only on Kissinger`s hitherto closed private papers but also on documents from more than a hundred archives around the world, this is the history of the House of Rothschild, Kissinger sheds dazzling new light on an entire era.

Автор: Ferguson, Niall
Название: High Financier
ISBN: 159420246X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781594202469
Издательство: Random House (USA)
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Описание: Найэл Фергюсон' Высокий Финансист рассказывает экстраординарную историю Зигмунда Варбурга, беженца из Нацистской Германии, который восстановил Разрушенный блицем Лондонский Сити как выдающийся международный финансовый центр в мире.

Автор: Niall Ferguson (ed.)
Название: Virtual History
ISBN: 0241952255 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780241952252
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Описание: What if Britain had stayed out of the First World War? What if Germany had invaded Britain in 1940? What if Nazi Germany had defeated the Soviet Union? How would England look if there had been no Cromwell? What if there had been no American Revolution? And what if John F Kennedy had lived? This book deals with these questions.

Автор: Niall Ferguson
Название: Civilization
ISBN: 0141044586 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780141044583
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Описание: In 1412, Europe was a miserable backwater ravaged by plague, bad sanitation and incessant war, while the Orient was home to dazzling civilizations. This book reveals the six `killer applications` that the Rest lacked: competition, science, property rights, medicine, consumerism and the work ethic.

Автор: Niall Ferguson
Название: Empire
ISBN: 0141007540 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780141007540
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Описание: Recreates the excitement, brutality and adventure of the British Empire. This book is a major reinterpretation of the British Empire as one of the world`s modernising forces. It shows how the British Empire in the 19th Century spearheaded real globalisation with steampower, telegraphs, guns, engineers, missionaries and millions of settlers.

Автор: Niall Ferguson
Название: The Great Degeneration
ISBN: 0141975237 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780141975238
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Описание: The decline of the West is something that has long been prophesied. Symptoms of decline are all around us today: slowing growth, crushing debts, ageing populations. But what exactly is amiss with Western civilization? The author argues that the institutions that were once the four pillars of Western society - representative government, and more.

Автор: Niall Ferguson
Название: Kissinger: 1923-1968: The Idealist
ISBN: 0141022000 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780141022000
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Описание: No American statesman has been as revered or as reviled as Henry Kissinger. Once hailed as “Super K”—the “indispensable man” whose advice has been sought by every president from Kennedy to Obama—he has also been hounded by conspiracy theorists, scouring his every “telcon” for evidence of Machiavellian malfeasance. Yet as Niall Ferguson shows in this magisterial two-volume biography, drawing not only on Kissinger’s hitherto closed private papers but also on documents from more than a hundred archives around the world, the idea of Kissinger as the ruthless arch-realist is based on a profound misunderstanding.The first half of Kissinger’s life is usually skimmed over as a quintessential tale of American ascent: the Jewish refugee from Hitler’s Germany who made it to the White House. But in this first of two volumes, Ferguson shows that what Kissinger achieved before his appointment as Richard Nixon’s national security adviser was astonishing in its own right. Toiling as a teenager in a New York factory, he studied indefatigably at night. He was drafted into the U.S. infantry and saw action at the Battle of the Bulge—as well as the liberation of a concentration camp—but ended his army career interrogating Nazis. It was at Harvard that Kissinger found his vocation. Having immersed himself in the philosophy of Kant and the diplomacy of Metternich, he shot to celebrity by arguing for “limited nuclear war.” Nelson Rockefeller hired him. Kennedy called him to Camelot. Yet Kissinger’s rise was anything but irresistible. Dogged by press gaffes and disappointed by “Rocky,” Kissinger seemed stuck—until a trip to Vietnam changed everything.The Idealist is the story of one of the most important strategic thinkers America has ever produced. It is also a political Bildungsroman, explaining how “Dr. Strangelove” ended up as consigliere to a politician he had always abhorred. Like Ferguson’s classic two-volume history of the House of Rothschild, Kissinger sheds dazzling new light on an entire era. The essential account of an extraordinary life, it recasts the Cold War world.

Автор: Niall Ferguson
Название: The War of the World HB
ISBN: 0713997087 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780713997088
Издательство: Random House
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Описание: The world at the beginning of the 20th century seemed for most of its inhabitants stable and relatively benign. Globalizing, booming economies married to technological breakthroughs seemed to promise a better world for most people. Instead, the 20th century proved to be overwhelmingly the most violent, frightening and brutalized in history with fanatical, often genocidal warfare engulfing most societies between the outbreak of the First World War and the end of the Cold War.

What went wrong? How did we do this to ourselves? "The War of the World" comes up with compelling, fascinating answers. It is Niall Ferguson's masterpiece.

Автор: Ferguson Niall
Название: Virtual History
ISBN: 0330413031 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780330413039
Издательство: Pan Macmillan
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Описание: Constructs a scenario starting with Charles I`s defeat of the Covenanters, running through three revolutions, the American, the French and the Russian - that did not happen and climaxing with the collapse of the West, ruled by an Anglo American empire, in the face of a mighty transcontinental, tsarist Russian imperium.

Автор: Ferguson, Niall
Название: The War of the World
ISBN: 0143112392 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780143112396
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Описание: From the bestselling author of The Ascent of Money and The Square and the Tower

Astonishing in its scope and erudition, this is the magnum opus that Niall Ferguson's numerous acclaimed works have been leading up to. In it, he grapples with perhaps the most challenging questions of modern history: Why was the twentieth century history's bloodiest by far? Why did unprecedented material progress go hand in hand with total war and genocide? His quest for new answers takes him from the walls of Nanjing to the bloody beaches of Normandy, from the economics of ethnic cleansing to the politics of imperial decline and fall. The result, as brilliantly written as it is vital, is a great historian's masterwork.