The War of 20-Century Conflict and the Descent of the West

About the Author

Niall Ferguson is a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University, former Laurence A. Tisch Professor of History at Harvard University and current senior fellow at the Center for European Studies at Harvard University, a visiting professor at Tsinghua University, Beijing, and founder and managing director of advisory firm Greenmantle LLC. The author of 15 books, Ferguson is writing a life of Henry Kissinger, the first volume of which—Kissinger, 1923-1968: The Idealist—was published in 2015 to critical acclaim. The World's Banker: The History of the House of Rothschild won the Wadsworth Prize for Business History. Other titles include Civilization: The West and the Rest, The Great Degeneration: How Institutions Decay and Economies Die and High Financier: The Lives and Time of Siegmund Warburg. Ferguson's six-part PBS television series, "The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World," based on his best-seller, won an International Emmy for best documentary in 2009. Civilization was also made into a documentary series. Ferguson is a recipient of the Benjamin Franklin Award for Public Service as well as other honors. His most recent book is The Square and the Tower: Networks on Power from the Freemasons to Facebook (2018).

尼爾·弗格森（Niall Ferguson）是斯坦福大學胡佛研究所高級研究員、哈佛大學前勞倫斯·A·蒂施曆史學教授、現任哈佛大學歐洲研究中心高級研究員、北京清華大學客座教授、創始人 兼谘詢公司 Greenmantle LLC 的董事總經理。 作為 15 本書的作者，弗格森正在撰寫亨利·基辛格的一生，其中第一卷《基辛格，1923-1968：理想主義者》於 2015 年出版，廣受好評。 《世界銀行家：羅斯柴爾德家族的曆史》榮獲沃茲沃斯商業史獎。 《文明：西方與其他地區》、《大衰退：製度衰退與經濟如何消亡》和《高級金融家：西格蒙德·瓦爾堡的生活與時代》。 弗格森根據弗格森的暢銷書製作的六集 PBS 電視連續劇《金錢的崛起：世界金融史》榮獲 2009 年國際艾美獎最佳紀錄片獎。《文明》也被拍成紀錄片係列。 弗格森是本傑明·富蘭克林公共服務獎以及其他榮譽的獲得者。 他的最新著作是《廣場與塔：從共濟會到 Facebook 的權力網絡》（2018 年）。

The War of the World: Twentieth-Century Conflict and the Descent of the West

by Niall Ferguson (Author)  – October 30, 2007

https://us.amazon.com/War-World-Twentieth-Century-Conflict-Descent/dp/0143112392 

From the bestselling author of The Ascent of Money and The Square and the Tower
"Even those who have read widely in 20th-century history will find fresh, surprising details." —The Boston Globe
"A fascinating read, thanks to Ferguson's gifts as a writer of clear, energetic narrative history." —The Washington Post

 

 

Astonishing in its scope and erudition, this is the magnum opus that Niall Ferguson's numerous acclaimed works have been leading up to. In it, he grapples with perhaps the most challenging questions of modern history: Why was the twentieth century history's bloodiest by far? Why did unprecedented material progress go hand in hand with total war and genocide? His quest for new answers takes him from the walls of Nanjing to the bloody beaches of Normandy, from the economics of ethnic cleansing to the politics of imperial decline and fall. The result, as brilliantly written as it is vital, is a great historian's masterwork.

The War of the World， History's Age of Hatred

By Niall Ferguson · 2006

Page count:745  Published:2006

Original from:the University of Michigan； Digitized:July 12, 2011

From the conflicts that presaged the First World War to the aftershocks of the Cold War, the twentieth century was by far the bloodiest in all human history. How can we explain the astonishing scale and intensity of its violence when, thanks to the advances of science and economics, most people were better off than ever before? Why did progress descend into genocide? In his most important book to date, Niall Ferguson resolves the paradox of the Age of Hatred. With all his trademark brilliance, vigour and originality, he sets out to explain what went wrong with modernity. It's a quest that takes him from the Siberian steppe to the plains of Poland, from the streets of Sarajevo to the beaches of Okinawa, and from the graveyards of Guatemala to the killing fields of Cambodia. The answers he finds are novel and compelling. Drawing on a pioneering combination of history, economics and evolutionary theory, The War of the World is a revolutionary reinterpretation of the modern era.