Niall Ferguson

Niall FergusonBread, cash, dosh, dough, loot. Call it what you like, it matters now more than ever. In The Ascent of Money, Niall Ferguson shows that finance is the foundation of all human progress and the lifeblood of history. From the cash injection that funded the Italian Renaissance to the stock market bubble that sparked the French Revolution, from the bonds that fuelled Britain's war effort to the Wall Street Crash and today's meltdown, this is the story of boom and bust as it's never been told before. Whether you're scraping by or rolling in it, there's no better time to understand the ascent of money.

This astoundingly successful, superbly reviewed book vividly recreates the excitement, brutality and adventure of the British Empire. Ferguson's most revolutionary and popular work, Empire is a major reinterpretation of the British Empire as one of the world's greatest modernising forces. It shows on a vast canvas how the British Empire in the 19th Century spearheaded real globalisation with steampower, telegraphs, guns, engineers, missionaries and millions of settlers.

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.

Is America the new world empire? Presidents from Lincoln to Bush may have denied it but, as Niall Ferguson's brilliant and provocative book shows, the US is the greatest military and economic colossus of all time. What's more, it always has been an empire, with its founding fathers battling westwards for territory and their successors spreading freedom across the world - at gunpoint if necessary. Yet is the US really equipped to play Atlas, bearing the weight of the world on its shoulders? America, Ferguson reveals, is now an empire running on empty, backing away from the crucial imperial commitments of time, money and manpower - and resting on perilous financial foundations. When the New Rome falls, its collapse may come from within.

The definitive biography of Henry Kissinger, based on unprecedented access to his private papers.No American statesman has been as revered or as reviled as Henry Kissinger. Once hailed as Super Kthe indispensable man whose advice has been sought by every president from Kennedy to Obamahe has also been hounded by conspiracy theorists, scouring his every telcon for evidence of Machiavellian malfeasance. Yet as Niall Ferguson shows in this magisterial two-volume biography, drawing not only on Kissingers hitherto closed private papers but also on documents from more than a hundred archives around the world, the idea of Kissinger as the ruthless arch-realist is based on a profound misunderstanding.The first half of Kissingers life is usually skimmed over as a quintessential tale of American ascent: the Jewish refugee from Hitlers Germany who made it to the White House. But in this first of two volumes, Ferguson shows that what Kissinger achieved before his appointment as Richard Nixons national security adviser was astonishing in its own right. Toiling as a teenager in a New York factory, he studied indefatigably at night. He was drafted into the U.S. infantry and saw action at the Battle of the Bulgeas well as the liberation of a concentration campbut ended his army career interrogating Nazis. It was at Harvard that Kissinger found his vocation. Having immersed himself in the philosophy of Kant and the diplomacy of Metternich, he shot to celebrity by arguing for limited nuclear war. Nelson Rockefeller hired him. Kennedy called him to Camelot. Yet Kissingers rise was anything but irresistible. Dogged by press gaffes and disappointed by Rocky, Kissinger seemed stuckuntil a trip to Vietnam changed everything.The Idealist is the story of one of the most important strategic thinkers America has ever produced. It is also a political Bildungsroman, explaining how Dr. Strangelove ended up as consigliere to a politician he had always abhorred. Like Fergusons classic two-volume history of the House of Rothschild, Kissinger sheds dazzling new light on an entire era. The essential account of an extraordinary life, it recasts the Cold War world.

La fascinante y enrevesada historia del invento más decisivo de la humanidad: el dinero. Edición actualizada y ampliadaPasta, guita, plata, parné, duros. Da igual cómo lo llamemos, pero lo cierto es que el dinero importa ahora mas que nunca. En El triunfo del dinero Niall Ferguson demuestra que la historia de las finanzas es el trasfondo de toda la Historia.¿Cuando paso el dinero de metal a papel? ¿Por que los tipos de interes suben y bajan como un yoyo? ¿Por que la gente nunca aprende que las burbujas bursatiles siempre acaban estallando? ¿Por que los seguros ya no son la mejor manera de protegerse contra el riesgo? ¿Por que sobrevaloramos las ventajas de invertir en el sector inmobiliario? La mejor manera de entender las finanzas es conocer los origenes de los distintos instrumentos, lo que ademas nos da una vision distinta de la historia del mundo desde la aparicion del dinero en la antigua Babilonia hasta la crisis actual.En el peor momento de las finanzas globales desde la Gran Depresion de los años treinta, nunca ha habido una ocasion mas adecuada para entender el triunfo (y los ocasionales fracasos) del dinero.La critica ha dicho...Maravillosamente escrito... Asombrosamente inteligente.Martin Vander Weyer,Sunday TelegraphLas historias que cuenta de subidas y bajadas, de triunfos y desastres, de burbujas que se hinchan... son la pura esencia de la historia de las finanzas.Bill Emmott,Financial TimesDeslumbrante, extraordinariamente oportuno.The SpectatorFerguson es el historiador mas brillante de su generacion. Su escritura es extraordinaria.TimeUno de los mejores historiadores economicos de nuestro tiempo.John Muller,El Mundo

Shows that finance is in fact the foundation of human progress. This book reveals financial history as the essential back-story behind all history. It explains why the origins of the French Revolution lie in a stock market bubble caused by a convicted Scots murderer. Esta obra nos muestra que las finanzas son de hecho el fundamento del progreso humano. El libro nos muestra la historia económica como la historia secundaria que está detrás de toda la historia. Nos explica por qué los orígenes de la Revolución Francesa se hallan en una burbuja del mercado de valores causada por un asesino convicto escocés.

Empire: how britain made modern world es un libro del autor Ferguson, Niall editado por PENGUIN. Empire: how britain made modern world tiene un código de ISBN 978-0-14-198791-0 y consta de 448 Página

Magisterial ... Immensely readable' Douglas Alexander, Financial Times'Insightful, productively provocative and downright brilliant' New York TimesA compelling history of catastrophes and their consequences, from 'the most brilliant British historian of his generation' (The Times)Disasters are inherently hard to predict. But when catastrophe strikes, we ought to be better prepared than the Romans were when Vesuvius erupted or medieval Italians when the Black Death struck. We have science on our side, after all. Yet the responses of many developed countries to a new pathogen from China were badly bungled. Why?

La fascinante y enrevesada historia del invento más decisivo de la humanidad: el dinero. Edición actualizada y ampliada Pasta, guita, plata, parne, duros. Da igual cómo lo llamemos, pero lo cierto es que el dinero importa ahora mas que nunca. En El triunfo del dinero Niall Ferguson demuestra que la historia de las finanzas es el trasfondo de toda la Historia. ¿Cuando paso el dinero de metal a papel? ¿Por que los tipos de interes suben y bajan como un yoyo? ¿Por que la gente nunca aprende que las burbujas bursatiles siempre acaban estallando? ¿Por que los seguros ya no son la mejor manera de protegerse contra el riesgo? ¿Por que sobrevaloramos las ventajas de invertir en el sector inmobiliario? La mejor manera de entender las finanzas es conocer los origenes de los distintos instrumentos, lo que ademas nos da una vision distinta de la historia del mundo desde la aparicion del dinero en la antigua Babilonia hasta la crisis actual.En el peor momento de las finanzas globales desde la Gran Depresion de los años treinta, nunca ha habido una ocasion mas adecuada para entender el triunfo (y los ocasionales fracasos) del dinero.La critica ha dicho..."Maravillosamente escrito... Asombrosamente inteligente."Martin Vander Weyer, Sun

¿Qué hubiera sucedido si Gran Bretaña se hubiese mantenido al margen en agosto de 1914? ¿Qué hubiera pasado en España sin la rebelión militar de julio de 1936? ¿Qué hubiera sucedido si la Alemania nazi hubiese derrotado a la Union Sovietica? ¿Que hubiera ocurrido en Argentina si hubiese fracasado el 17 de octubre? ¿Y si el comunismo no se hubiera derrumbado?. Tradicionalmente, los historiadores se han negado a responder a tales preguntas, prefiriendo asumir el pasado como algo inevitable. Pero en historia virtual, varios historiadores de primera fila se aventuran a examinar que hubiera pasado si nueve acontecimientos monumentales hubiesen resultado de otra forma, basandose en las alternativas que se contemplaron en su momento. Encuadernacion: Cartone.