Archive for Niall Ferguson
The Cash Nexus: Money and Power in the Modern World, 1700–2000
Basic Books • 2001 • 425 pages • $30.00 Reviewed by Martin Morse Wooster Niall Ferguson, an Oxford University historian, is best known for The Pity of War, a book arguing that it was a mistake for Britain to enter World War I. But he is also a financial historian, whose most lengthy book is [...]
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