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    Civilization: The West and the Rest

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    The definitive history of Western civilization’s rise to global dominance–and the killer applications that made this improbable ascent possible: competition, science, the rule of law, consumerism, modern medicine, and the…

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    Empire: How Britain Made the Modern World

    Niall Ferguson

    Shows how a gang of buccaneers and gold-diggers from a rainy island in the North Atlantic came to build the most powerful empire in all history, how it ended, and…

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    Empire: How Britain Made the Modern World

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    Shows how a gang of buccaneers and gold-diggers from a rainy island in the North Atlantic came to build the most powerful empire in all history, how it ended, and…

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    The Square and the Tower: Networks, Hierarchies and the Struggle for Global Power

    Niall Ferguson

    The new bestseller that shows why everything we thought we knew about history was wrong

    ‘The most brilliant historian of his generation’ The Times

    Most history is hierarchical- it’s about…

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    Virtual History: Alternatives And Counterfactuals

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    Speculative history at its best, in which a talented team of historians, led by Niall Ferguson, explore what might have happened if nine momentous events had turned out differently.

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    High Financier: The Lives and Time of Siegmund Warburg

    Niall Ferguson

    Features the story of Siegmund Warburg: the refugee from Nazi Germany who restored the Blitz-shattered City of London as the world’s pre-eminent international financial centre. It shows how this scholarly…

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    Colossus: The Rise and Fall of the American Empire

    Niall Ferguson

    Is America the new world empire? Presidents from Lincoln to Bush may have denied it but, this book shows, the US is in many ways the greatest imperial power of…

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    Doom: The Politics of Catastrophe

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    All disasters are in some sense man-made.

    Setting the annus horribilis of 2020 in historical perspective, Niall Ferguson explains why we are getting worse, not better, at handling disasters.

    Disasters…

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    The Great Degeneration: How Institutions Decay and Economies Die

    Niall Ferguson

    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…

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    Doom: The Politics of Catastrophe

    Niall Ferguson

    A provocative, original and compelling history of catastrophes and their consequences

    Disasters are by their very nature hard to predict. Pandemics, like earthquakes, wildfires, financial crises and wars, are not…

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    Kissinger: 1923-1968: The Idealist

    Niall Ferguson

    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…

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    The Cash Nexus: Money and Politics in Modern History, 1700-2000

    Niall Ferguson

    This title answers questions about finance and its crucial place in bringing happiness and despair, warfare and welfare, boom and crash to nations buffeted by the onward march of history…

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    Colossus: The Rise and Fall of the American Empire

    Niall Ferguson

    From one of Time’s 100 People Who Shape Our World comes a provocative examination of the American way of empire.

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    Kissinger: 1923-1968: The Idealist

    Niall Ferguson

    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…

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    Doom: The Politics of Catastrophe

    Niall Ferguson

    A provocative, original and compelling history of catastrophes and their consequences

    Disasters are inherently hard to predict. But when catastrophe strikes, we ought to be better prepared than the Romans…

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    The Arbroath and Forfar Railway: The Dundee Direct Line and the Kirriemuir Branch

    Niall Ferguson

    The Arbroath and Forfar line opened in 1839, and before long it was possible to travel from Dundee to Forfar without the need to change trains. This book describes the…

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    The Pity of War: Explaining World War I

    Niall Ferguson

    The Pity of War makes one very simple and provocative argument: that the human atrocity known as the First World War was entirely Englands fault, that Englands entry into the…

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    The House of Rothschild: Money’s Prophets 1798-1848

    Niall Ferguson

    A portrait of the remarkable, elusive Rothschild family. It uncovers the secrets behind the family’s phenomenal economic success. It also reveals the details of the family’s vast political network, which…

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    The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World: 10th Anniversary Edition

    Niall Ferguson

    Ferguson tells the human story behind the evolution of money, from its origins in ancient Mesopotamia to the latest Wall Street upheavals. The author shows that finance is, in fact…

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    Civilization: The West and the Rest

    Niall Ferguson

    The definitive history of Western civilization’s rise to global dominance–and the killer applications that made this improbable ascent possible: competition, science, the rule of law, consumerism, modern medicine, and the…

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    The War of the World: History’s Age of Hatred

    Niall Ferguson

    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…

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    Virtual History: Alternatives and Counterfactuals

    Niall Ferguson

    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…

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    The Pity of War

    Niall Ferguson

    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…

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    The House of Rothschild: The World’s Banker 1849-1998

    Niall Ferguson

    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…

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    The Great Degeneration: How Institutions Decay and Economies Die

    Niall Ferguson

    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…

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    The Square and the Tower: Networks and Power, from the Freemasons to Facebook

    Niall Ferguson

    A recasting of the turning points in world history, including the one we’re living through, as a struggle between old power hierarchies and new social networks –Dust jacket.

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    The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World

    Niall Ferguson

    Shows that financial history is the back-story to all history. From the banking dynasty who funded the Italian Renaissance to the stock market bubble that caused the French Revolution, this…

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    High Financier: The Lives and Time of Siegmund Warburg

    Niall Ferguson

    Features the story of Siegmund Warburg: the refugee from Nazi Germany who restored the Blitz-shattered City of London as the world’s pre-eminent international financial centre. It shows how this scholarly…

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    The Cash Nexus: Economics and Politics from the Age of Warfare through the Age of Welfare, 1700-2000

    Niall Ferguson

    Historian Niall Ferguson examines the history of the links between politics and economics, drawing unsettling conclusions about the future of capitalism and democracy.

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    Empire: The Rise and Demise of the British World Order and the Lessons for Global Power

    Niall Ferguson

    A narrative history profiles the British Empire as a cradle of modernity, tracing the expansion of Britain’s economy, population, and culture during the last four centuries and continuing with discussions…

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    Paper and Iron: Hamburg Business and German Politics in the Era of Inflation, 1897-1927

    Niall Ferguson (University of Oxford)

    In this revisionist analysis of the German inflation of the early 1920s, Niau Ferguson argues that stabilising economic policies could have been adopted in 1920, had it not been for…

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    Paper and Iron: Hamburg Business and German Politics in the Era of Inflation, 1897-1927

    Niall Ferguson (University of Oxford)

    View of the German hyperinflation of the early 1920s, arguing inflation was an economic and political disaster, stabilising economic policies could have been adopted, and pointing to defects in the…

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    The Middle Parts of Fortune: Somme And Ancre, 1916

    Frederic Manning,Niall Ferguson

    Bourne is a private fighting on the front. He is under pressure to accept a commission and become an officer, but he prefers to be among the ranks, drawn into…

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    The End of the Liberal Order?

    Niall Ferguson,Fareed Zakaria

    Is it time to reaffirm our liberal values? Or are we seeing the birth-pangs of a new era? Two great thinkers debate the question burning behind headlines across the world.

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    The Great Degeneration

    Niall Ferguson

    The decline of the West is something that has long been prophesied. Symptoms of decline are all around us today, it seems: slowing growth, crushing debts, aging populations, anti-social behaviour…

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    Inside the House of Money: Top Hedge Fund Traders on Profiting in the Global Markets

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    New commentary and updates to enlightening interviews with today’s top global macro hedge fund managers This updated paperback edition of Inside the House of Money lifts the veil on the…

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    High Financier

    Niall Ferguson

    In this groundbreaking new biography, based on more than ten thousand hitherto unavailable letters and diary entries, bestselling author Niall Ferguson returns to his roots as a financial historian to…

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    Dead Aid: Why Aid Is Not Working and How There Is a Better Way for Africa

    Dambisa F Moyo

    Dead Aid describes the state of postwar development policy in Africa today and confronts one of the greatest myths of our time: that billions of dollars in aid sent from…

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    Inside the House of Money, Revised and Updated

    Steven Drobny

    This updated paperback edition of Inside the House of Money lifts the veil on the typically opaque world of hedge funds offering a rare glimpse at how today's highest paid…

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    Inside the House of Money, Revised and Updated

    Steven Drobny

    This updated paperback edition of Inside the House of Money lifts the veil on the typically opaque world of hedge funds offering a rare glimpse at how today's highest paid…

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    Benedetto Cotrugli - The Book of the Art of Trade: With Scholarly Essays from Niall Ferguson, Giovanni Favero, Mario Infelise, Tiziano Zanato and Vera Ribaudo

    This is the first English translation of Benedetto Cotrugli’s The Book of the Art of Trade, a lively account of the life of a Mediterranean merchant in the Early Renaissance…

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    Benedetto Cotrugli - The Book of the Art of Trade: With Scholarly Essays from Niall Ferguson, Giovanni Favero, Mario Infelise, Tiziano Zanato and Vera Ribaudo

    This is the first English translation of Benedetto Cotrugli’s The Book of the Art of Trade, a lively account of the life of a Mediterranean merchant in the Early Renaissance…

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    Has the European Experiment Failed?: The Munk Debate on Europe

    Niall Ferguson,Daniel Cohn-Bendit,Josef Joffe,Peter Mandelson

    In the sweep of human history, the European Union stands out as one of humankind’s most ambitious endeavours. It encompasses half a billion people, twenty-seven member states, twenty-three languages, and…

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    Does the 21st Century Belong to China?: The Munk Debate on China

    Dr. Henry Kissinger,Niall Ferguson,David Li,Fareed Zakaria

    On June 17, 2011, former U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger and CNN’s Fareed Zakaria squared off against leading historian Niall Ferguson and world-renowned Chinese economist David Daokui Li to…

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    The Shock of the Global: The 1970s in Perspective

    From the vantage point of the United States or Western Europe, the 1970s was a time of troubles: economic ‘stagflation,’ political scandal, and global turmoil. This title examines the large-scale…

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