Virtual History, Niall Ferguson (ed.)

Автор: Ferguson Niall
Название: Virtual History
ISBN: 0330413031 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780330413039
Издательство: Pan Macmillan
Цена: 6580 T
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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 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
Издательство: Random House - Penguin
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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: The House of Rothschild
ISBN: 0140286624 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780140286625
Издательство: Random House - Penguin
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Цена: 17790 T
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Описание: Deals with the history of the legendary Rothschild banking dynasty. This title also shows the portrait of one of the most powerful and fascinating families of modern times. It shows how their power waned as conflicts from Crimea to the Second World War repeatedly threatened the stability of their worldwide empire, and more.

Автор: Niall Ferguson
Название: The Cash Nexus
ISBN: 0140293337 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780140293333
Издательство: Random House - Penguin
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Цена: 12790 T
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Описание: Shows that a nation`s success largely depends on the way it manages its money. But where do money and politics meet? From 1700 to the present day, the author offers an analysis of the evolution of today`s economic and political landscape.

Автор: Ferguson, Niall
Название: Colossus
ISBN: 0143034790 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780143034797
Издательство: Random House (USA)
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Цена: 10700 T
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Описание: Acclaimed historian Niall Ferguson ranges across the entire history of America s foreign entanglements and delves into all the dimensions of American power military, economic, cultural, and political. The result is a book whose conclusions are as convincing, and troubling, as they are original. Ferguson demonstrates that America has always been an empire in denial and shows the fateful consequences of its special brand of imperialism. He examines the challenges to the United States from its principal rivals, the European Union and China, and offers a compelling analysis of the connection between the country s domestic economic health and its foreign affairs the bottom line of imperialism, American style. "Colossus" is a peerless reckoning with American power that should be read by any thinking citizen of this unspoken empire.

Автор: Ferguson Niall
Название: The Great Degeneration: How Institutions Decay and Economies Die
ISBN: 1594205450 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781594205453
Издательство: Random House (USA)
Цена: 14420 T
Наличие на складе: Нет в наличии.
Описание: "From renowned historian Niall Ferguson, a searching and provocative examination of the widespread institutional rot that threatens our collective future"
What causes rich countries to lose their way? Symptoms of decline are all around us today: slowing growth, crushing debts, increasing inequality, aging populations, antisocial behavior. But what exactly has gone wrong? The answer, Niall Ferguson argues in "The Great Degeneration," is that our institutions the intricate frameworks within which a society can flourish or fail are degenerating.
Representative government, the free market, the rule of law, and civil society these are the four pillars of West European and North American societies. It was these institutions, rather than any geographical or climatic advantages, that set the West on the path to global dominance beginning around 1500. In our time, however, these institutions have deteriorated in disturbing ways. Our democracies have broken the contract between the generations by heaping IOUs on our children and grandchildren. Our markets are hindered by overcomplex regulations that debilitate the political and economic processes they were created to support; the rule of law has become the rule of lawyers. And civil society has degenerated into uncivil society, where we lazily expect all of our problems to be solved by the state.
It is institutional degeneration, in other words, that lies behind economic stagnation and the geopolitical decline that comes with it. With characteristic verve and historical insight, Ferguson analyzes not only the causes of this stagnation but also its profound consequences.
"The Great Degeneration "is an incisive indictment of an era of negligence and complacency. While the Arab world struggles to adopt democracy and China struggles to move from economic liberalization to the rule of law, our society is squandering the institutional inheritance of centuries. To arrest the breakdown of our civilization, Ferguson warns, will take heroic leadership and radical reform."

Автор: Niall Ferguson
Название: The Pity of War
ISBN: 0140275231 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780140275230
Издательство: Random House - Penguin
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Описание: The First World War killed around eight million men and bled Europe dry. Was the sacrifice worth it? Was it all really an inevitable cataclysm and were the Germans a genuine threat? Was the war, as is often asserted, greeted with popular enthusiasm? Why did men keep on fighting when conditions were so wretched? This title deals with questions.

Автор: Ferguson, Niall
Название: Civilization
ISBN: 0143122061 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780143122067
Издательство: Random House (USA)
Цена: 10700 T
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Описание: Western civilization's rise to global dominance is the single most important historical phenomenon of the past five centuries
How did the West overtake its Eastern rivals? And has the zenith of Western power now passed? Acclaimed historian Niall Ferguson argues that beginning in the fifteenth century, the West developed six powerful new concepts, or "killer applications"--competition, science, the rule of law, modern medicine, consumerism, and the work ethic--that the Rest lacked, allowing it to surge past all other competitors.
Yet now, Ferguson shows how the Rest have downloaded the killer apps the West once monopolized, while the West has literally lost faith in itself. Chronicling the rise and fall of empires alongside clashes (and fusions) of civilizations, "Civilization: The West and the Rest " recasts world history with force and wit. Boldly argued and teeming with memorable characters, this is Ferguson at his very best.

Автор: Ferguson, Niall
Название: High Financier
ISBN: 159420246X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781594202469
Издательство: Random House (USA)
Цена: 18720 T
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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
Название: Civilization
ISBN: 0141044586 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780141044583
Издательство: Random House - Penguin
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Цена: 5340 T
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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
Издательство: Random House - Penguin
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Цена: 4860 T
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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 War of the World HB
ISBN: 0713997087 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780713997088
Издательство: Random House - Penguin
Цена: 12160 T
Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ.
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.