Niall Campbell Ferguson is a British historian from Scotland. He is the Laurence A. Tisch Professor of History at Harvard University. He is also a Senior Research Fellow of Jesus College, University of Oxford, a Senior Fellow of the Hoover Institution, Stanford University and visiting professor at the New College of the Humanities. His specialties are international history, economic and financial history, and British and American imperialism. He is known for his provocative, contrarian views. -...
The War of the World
The War of the World
Synopsis
A sweeping re-examination of the twentieth century's defining conflicts, tracing how a convergence of technological advancement and ideological extremism fueled unprecedented violence from World War I through the Cold War. Ferguson argues that the same forces driving modernization also unleashed its most destructive consequences.
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The War of the WorldHardcover, 2006
816 pages
Penguin BooksISBN: 97807139970885 editions available
