Niall Ferguson

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Quotes

• “The First World War was at once piteous, in the poet's sense, and 'a pity'. It was something worse than a tragedy, which is ultimately something we are taught by the theatre to regard as unavoidable. It was nothing less than the greatest error of modern history.”
• “For much (though certainly, as we shall see, not all) of its history, the British Empire acted as an agency for imposing free markets, the rule of law, investor protection and relatively incorrupt government on roughly a quarter of the world. The Empire also did a good deal to encourage those things in countries which were outside its formal imperial domain but under its economic influence through the ‘imperialism of fair trade’.”
• “The difficulty with the achievements of the empire is that they are much more likely to be taken for granted than the sins of the empire.”
• “The British Empire was the nearest thing there has ever been to a world government. Yet its mode of operation was a triumph of minimalism.”
• “For better, for worse – fair and foul – the world we know today is in large measure the product of Britain’s age of Empire. The question is not whether British imperialism was without a blemish. It was not. The question is whether there could have been a less bloody path to modernity. Perhaps in theory there could have been. But in practice?”
• “The empire had begun with the stealing of gold; it progressed with the cultivation of sugar.”

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Key facts

Born

Niall Campbell Ferguson , ( 1964-04-18 ) 18 April 1964 (age 62) , Glasgow , Scotland

Citizenship

United Kingdom United States

Spouses

Sue Douglas ​ ​ ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1994 ; divorced</span>"}]]}'>div. 2011 ) ​ Ayaan Hirsi Ali ​ ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 10 September 2011</span>"}]]}'>2011 ) ​

Education

Magdalen College, Oxford , ( MA , DPhil ), University of Hamburg

Thesis

Business and Politics in the German Inflation (1989)

Doctoral advisor

Norman Stone

Influences

A. J. P. Taylor

Discipline

International history , Economic history

Institutions

University of Cambridge University of Oxford New York University Harvard University London School of Economics Hoover Institution , Stanford University

Doctoral students

Tyler Goodspeed

Notable works

Empire: How Britain Made the Modern World (2003), Civilisation: the West and the Rest (2011)

Website

www .niallferguson .com

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Official website

NIALL FERGUSON

Niall Ferguson is one of the world’s foremost historians. He is the Milbank Family Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University, and the managing director of Greenmantle, LLC. He is the author of sixteen books. His awards include the International Emmy for Best Documentary, the Benja, Niall Ferguson is one of the world’s foremost historians. He is the Milbank Family Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University, and the managing director of Greenmantle, LLC. He is the author of sixteen books. His awards include the International Emmy for Best Documentary, the Benjamin Franklin Award for Public Service, and the Council on Foreign Relations Arthur Ross Book Award.

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Official website

www.niallferguson.com

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