The cash nexus : money and power in the modern world, 1700-2000 / Niall Ferguson.
By: Ferguson, Niall
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BookPublisher: London : Allen Lane : The Penguin Press, 2001Description: xix, 553 p. ; 25 cm. + hbk.ISBN: 0713994657.Subject(s): Money -- History | Economic historyDDC classification: 332.4
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
Following the international success of his iconoclastic The Pity of War, Niall Ferguson now takes on the history of money -the sinews of war - and power.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 487-528) and index.
Author notes provided by Syndetics
Niall Ferguson was born April 18, 1964, in Glasgow. He is a Scottish historian. He specializes in financial and economic history as well as the history of empire. He is the Laurence A. Tisch Professor of History at Harvard University and the William Ziegler Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School.His books include Paper and Iron: Hamburg Business and German Politics in the Era of Inflation 1897-1927 (1993), Virtual History: Alternatives and Counterfactuals (1997), The Pity of War: Explaining World War One (1998), The World's Banker: The History of the House of Rothschild (1998), The Cash Nexus: Money and Power in the Modern World, 1700-2000 (2001), Empire: The Rise and Demise of the British World Order and the Lessons for Global Power (2003), Colossus: The Rise and Fall of the American Empire (2004), The War of the World: Twentieth-Century Conflict and the Descent of the West (2006) and The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World (2008), Civilization: The West and the Rest (2011) , The Great Degeneration: How Institutions Decay and Economies Die, and The Square and the Tower: Networks and Power, from the Freemasons to Facebook.
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