Niall Ferguson Pity

Niall Ferguson, "The Cash Nexus: Money and Power in the Modern World, 1700-2000" eBooks & eLearning

Posted by tired at Oct. 1, 2009

An acclaimed historian offers a radical new history of the links between politics and economics, one that draws unsettling conclusions about the future of both capitalism and democracy. Does money make the world go round, as Cabaret's Master of Ceremonies sang to us? In The Cash Nexus, acclaimed historian Niall Ferguson offers a radical and surprising answer—No. Ferguson thinks it is high time we re-examined the link between economics and politics, in the aftermath not only of the failure of socialism but also of the apparent triumph of American-style capitalism. His central argument is that the conflicting impulses of sex, violence, and power are together more powerful than money. In particular, political events and institutions have often dominated economic development.

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Niall Ferguson - The Pity Of War eBooks & eLearning

Posted by BeautifulWonder at July 3, 2013

Niall Ferguson - The Pity Of War
Audio CDs in MP3 / English: MP3, 64 kb/s (2 ch) | ISBN: 0465057128 | Duration: 21:39:38 | 596 mb
Genre: History

World WAR I was not only the first of the major catastrophes disrupting this century, but perhaps the worst, especially in its long-term impact. Even in an era when we have learned to count the dead in millions, some casualty figures for the Great War are still difficult to grasp. In one attack at Ypres in Belgium the British lost a staggering 13,000 men in a mere three hours, while gaining no more than 100 yards for the sacrifice. On July 1, 1916, the first day of the Battle of the Somme, the British suffered 60,000 casualties in an assault preceded by a six-day artillery bombardment of German lines. Although the Germans had been hit by three million shells along a 12-mile stretch, enough survived to offer fierce resistance. When this battle ended, total casualties amounted to over 1.1 million men. By 1918, the Allies counted 5.4 million dead and 7 million wounded; the two Central Powers suffered 4 million deaths and 8.3 million wounded.

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Virtual History: Alternatives And Counterfactuals by Niall Ferguson [Repost] eBooks & eLearning

Posted by Free butterfly at Nov. 17, 2014

What if there had been no American War of Independence? What if Hitler had invaded Britain? What if Kennedy had lived? What if Russia had won the Cold War? Niall Ferguson, author of the highly acclaimed The Pity of War, leads the charge in this historically rigorous series of separate voyages into “imaginary time” and provides far-reaching answers to these intriguing questions.

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The Pity of War eBooks & eLearning

Posted by silva1410 at Aug. 2, 2021

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The Pity Of War: Explaining World War I eBooks & eLearning

Posted by ksveta6 at Jan. 26, 2017

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The Pity of War: Explaining World War I [Audiobook] Audiobooks

Posted by IrGens at Aug. 14, 2022

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The Pity of War eBooks & eLearning

Posted by bakerman at May 19, 2014

The Pity of War
Basic Books | 2000 | ISBN: 0465057128 | English | 661 pages | PDF | 40.4 MB

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BBC - The Pity of War (2014) Movies

Posted by notbanned at March 5, 2014

Was the Great War a great mistake? In this innovative programme, Harvard historian Professor Niall Ferguson offers a different perspective on the First World War and argues that Britain's decision to enter the war was a tragic mistake. The First World War was one of the great turning points of modern history. We know where the war started: in the Bosnian capital of Sarajevo on 28 June 1914, when a Bosnian Serb named Gavrilo Princip murdered the heir to the Austro-Hungarian dual monarchy. But how and why did this crisis in the Balkans escalate into a bloody global conflagration? Did Britain really have to fight a war against Germany?

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BBC - The Pity of War (2014) Movies

Posted by notbanned at Feb. 16, 2017

Was the Great War a great mistake? In this innovative programme, Harvard historian Professor Niall Ferguson offers a different perspective on the First World War and argues that Britain's decision to enter the war was a tragic mistake.

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Empire: The Rise and Demise of the British World Order and the Lessons for Global Power [repost] eBooks & eLearning

Posted by FenixN at Sept. 13, 2015

Empire: The Rise and Demise of the British World Order and the Lessons for Global Power
Audio CDs in MP3 / English: MP3, 64 kb/s (2 ch) | Duration: 15:11:07 | ISBN-10: 0792732049 | 2004 | 432 MB
Genre: History

Niall Ferguson's bestselling "Empire" is the compelling story of how the British empire rose to power - and why it finally fell. Once vast swathes of the globe were coloured imperial red and Britannia ruled not just the waves, but the prairies of America, the plains of Asia, the jungles of Africa and the deserts of Arabia. Just how did a small, rainy island in the North Atlantic achieve all this? And why did the empire on which the sun literally never set finally decline and fall? Niall Ferguson's acclaimed "Empire" brilliantly unfolds the imperial story in all its splendours and its miseries, showing how a gang of buccaneers and gold-diggers planted the seed of the biggest empire in all history - and set the world on the road to modernity.

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