Ferguson, Niall

Niall Ferguson, unul dintre cei mai cunoscuti istorici britanici, profesor de istorie la Harvard University si Harvard Business School, Senior Research Fellow la Jesus College (Oxford University), Senior Fellow la Hoover Institution (Stanford University) si profesor de istorie si relatii internationale la London School of Economics. Este autorul lucrarilor: Paper and Iron: Hamburg Business and German Politics in the Era of Inflation, 1897-1927 (1995); The World’s Banker: The History of the House of Rothschild (1998); The Pity of War (1998); The Cash Nexus: Money and Power in the Modern World, 1700-2000 (2001); Empire: How Britain Made the Modern World (2003); Colossus: The Rise and Fall of the American Empire (2004); The War of the World: History’s Age of Hatred (2006); The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World (2008). Publica regulat articole in ziare si reviste din intreaga lume. A redactat si prezentat cinci serii de documentare pentru televiziune, difuzate de Channel 4, care s-au bucurat de o remarcabila audienta: Empire (2003), American Colossus (2004), The War of the World (2006), The Ascent of Money (2008) si, recent, Civilization: Is The West History? (2011).