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Niall Ferguson

Niall FergusonAKA Niall Campbell Douglas Ferguson

Born: 18-Apr-1964
Birthplace: Glasgow, Scotland

Gender: Male
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Historian

Nationality: Scotland
Executive summary: The House of Rothschild

Prolific history author, believes the 20th Century is more about the rise of the East rather than the West. One main thesis of his is the apex of Western power at the turn of the 20th century. He also labels 1979 as an important turning point, far more so than the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 -- the earlier year saw the start of the turnaround of China, the hostage crisis in Iran, and the Soviet Afghan War. Ferguson is sometimes referred to as a neoconservative, but he differs with them on many important matters (including the Iraq War).

Wife: Susan (three children)

    University: Magdalen College, Oxford University (1985)
    Scholar: Research Fellow, Christ's College, Cambridge University (1989-90)
    Scholar: Fellow and Lecturer, Peterhouse, Cambridge University (1990-92)
    Scholar: Jesus College, Oxford University (1992-2000)
    Professor: Modern History, Oxford University (2000-02)
    Professor: Financial History, New York University (2002-04)
    Professor: Laurence A. Tisch Professor of History, Harvard University (2004-)

    Hoover Institution Senior Fellow

    FILMOGRAPHY AS ACTOR
    America (4-Jul-2014) · Himself

Official Website:
http://www.niallferguson.org/

Author of books:
Empire: How Britain Made the Modern World
The House of Rothschild (1998-99, history)
The Pity of War: Explaining World War I (1999, history)
The Cash Nexus: Money and Power in the Modern World, 1700-2000 (2001, economics)
Paper and Iron: Hamburg Business and German Politics in the Era of Inflation, 1897-1927 (2002)
Empire: The Rise and Demise of the British World Order and the Lessons for Global Power (2003, history)
Colossus: The Price of America's Empire (2004, international affairs)
1914: Why the World Went to War (2005, history)
The War of the World: Twentieth-Century Conflict and the Descent of the West (2006, history)
The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World (2008, economics)
Civilization: The West and the Rest (2011, history)


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