Niall Ferguson

The Ascent of Money

Historical survey of money, banking, and finance from ancient to modern

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Niall Ferguson
Niall Ferguson

Scottish historian whose revisionist accounts of the British Empire, the Great War, and American power have been widely read and widely contested. The Pity of War argued that British entry into World War I was a catastrophic mistake. The Square and the Tower examined network structures in history.

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