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).

尼尔·弗格森（Niall Ferguson）是斯坦福大学胡佛研究所高级研究员、哈佛大学前劳伦斯·A·蒂施历史学教授、现任哈佛大学欧洲研究中心高级研究员、北京清华大学客座教授、创始人 兼咨询公司 Greenmantle LLC 的董事总经理。 作为 15 本书的作者，弗格森正在撰写亨利·基辛格的一生，其中第一卷《基辛格，1923-1968：理想主义者》于 2015 年出版，广受好评。 《世界银行家：罗斯柴尔德家族的历史》荣获沃兹沃斯商业史奖。 《文明：西方与其他地区》、《大衰退：制度衰退与经济如何消亡》和《高级金融家：西格蒙德·瓦尔堡的生活与时代》。 弗格森根据弗格森的畅销书制作的六集 PBS 电视连续剧《金钱的崛起：世界金融史》荣获 2009 年国际艾美奖最佳纪录片奖。《文明》也被拍成纪录片系列。 弗格森是本杰明·富兰克林公共服务奖以及其他荣誉的获得者。 他的最新著作是《广场与塔：从共济会到 Facebook 的权力网络》（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.