New Releases by Niall Ferguson

Niall Ferguson is the author of Kissinger (1923-1968) (2023), Kiyamet (2023), Rothschild Hanedani (2023), 羅斯柴爾德家族 (2023), Desastre: Historia y política de las catástrofes / The Politics of Catastrophe (2022).

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Kissinger (1923-1968)

release date: Nov 27, 2023
Kissinger (1923-1968)
A biografia de um dos maiores estadistas do século 20 Nenhum estadista norte-americano foi tão reverenciado e criticado como Henry Kissinger. Considerado por alguns um "homem indispensável", cujos conselhos foram requisitados por todos os presidentes de John F. Kennedy até Barack Obama, Kissinger também atraiu uma horda de críticos hostis que o pintaram como um estrategista maquiavélico amoral – o epítome do realista "sangue-frio". Neste livro, o primeiro de dois volumes, Niall Ferguson traçou um panorama extraordinário do mundo de Kissinger. Somente através de de suas origens – judeu na Alemanha do Terceiro Reich, pobre imigrante em Nova York, soldado na Batalha das Ardenas, interrogador de nazistas e estudante de história em Harvard – é possível entender sua dívida com o idealismo. E apenas ao rastrear sua ascensão, queda e renascimento como conselheiro de Kennedy, Nelson Rockefeller e Richard Nixon, poderemos apreciar a magnitude de sua contribuição à teoria da diplomacia, estratégia e luta contra a guerra nuclear. Partindo de registros confidenciais de Kissinger, mas também de documentos de mais de cem arquivos ao redor do mundo, esta biografia é a obra-prima de Niall Ferguson, que reconstrói toda uma era.

Rothschild Hanedani

release date: Jan 01, 2023

羅斯柴爾德家族

release date: Jan 01, 2023

Desastre: Historia y política de las catástrofes / The Politics of Catastrophe

release date: Jan 04, 2022
Desastre: Historia y política de las catástrofes / The Politics of Catastrophe
Una historia de las catástrofes deslumbrante, original y repleta de ideas para el futuro que pone en perspectiva el ya conocido como annus horribilis. Los desastres son difíciles de prever, pero en la actualidad deberíamos estar mejor preparados contra las catástrofes que los romanos cuando el Vesubio entró en erupción o que los italianos cuando golpeó la Peste Negra en la Edad Media. Al fin y al cabo, nosotros contamos con la ciencia. Sin embargo, tal y como ha quedado demostrado con la crisis del coronavirus, la respuesta de la mayoría de países desarrollados ante un nuevo patógeno ha sido más bien torpe. ¿Cómo es posible? Niall Ferguson sostiene, entre muchas otras cosas, que estaban en juego patologías previas arraigadas ya visibles en nuestras respuestas a otros desastres del pasado. Desde diversas disciplinas, incluidas la economía y la ciencia de redes, Desastre ofrece no solo una historia, sino también una teoría general de los desastres, y expone cómo nuestros complejos y atrofiados sistemas de gobernanza son incapaces de afrontar las crisis. Como muestra Ferguson, los gobiernos deben aprender a ser menos burocráticos y más resilientes si quieren evitar un declive irreversible. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION A compelling and original history of catastrophes, full of ideas for the future, that puts into perspective the year already known as annus horribilis. Disaster is hard to prevent, but nowadays we should be better prepared for catastrophes than the Romans were when the Vesuvius erupted or than the Italians when the black plague hit in the Middle Ages. After all, we have science. However, just as it has been proven with the coronavirus crisis, most developed countries response to a new pathogen is clumsy at best. How is this possible? Niall Ferguson argues, among many other things, that previous pathologies, rooted and visible in our response to past disasters, were at stake. From several fields, including economics and social network science, Doom offers not just history, but a comprehensive theory of disaster, exhibiting how our complex and atrophied governance systems are uncapable of facing crisis. As Ferguson shows, governments should learn to be less bureaucratic and more resilient if they wish to avoid an irreversible decline.

Catastrofi

release date: Nov 09, 2021
Catastrofi
Le catastrofi sono per loro stessa natura difficili da prevedere. Le pandemie, così come i terremoti, gli incendi, le crisi finanziarie e le guerre, non seguono una distribuzione di tipo statistico e non è possibile individuare cicli che aiutino ad anticipare il prossimo disastro. Ma quando se ne verifica uno, la società contemporanea dovrebbe essere meglio preparata ad affrontarlo di quanto lo fossero i romani davanti all''eruzione del Vesuvio o l''Europa medievale alle prese con la peste nera. Eppure, le risposte di un certo numero di paesi sviluppati, compresi gli Stati Uniti, a un nuovo agente patogeno proveniente dalla Cina sono state confuse e abborracciate. Come mai? La risposta più facile, sostiene Niall Ferguson, è addossare la colpa a una cattiva leadership, unita spesso a incompetenza o addirittura negligenza nel campo della preparazione ai disastri e dell''attenuazione della loro gravità. Ed è vero che le attuali classi politiche, in ogni parte del mondo, soffrono di una cronica incapacità di far tesoro del passato, mancano di immaginazione, tendono a combattere solo la guerra o la crisi più recente, a sottovalutare le minacce o a procrastinare, in attesa di una certezza che non arriva mai. Ma non tutti i fallimenti sono attribuibili soltanto al sistema di governo: spesso, l''anello debole della catena si trova a un livello più basso della gerarchia organizzativa, nell''ottusità della burocrazia e anche nel comportamento dei cittadini comuni. Che cosa spinge, allora, alcune persone a reagire in modo razionale a una nuova minaccia, altre ad agire passivamente come semplici spettatori e altre ancora al negazionismo o alla rivolta? Che cosa porta una moltitudine a passare da un comportamento assennato alla follia? Ripercorrendo devastanti catastrofi che hanno colpito l''umanità nei secoli, e soprattutto esaminando l''atteggiamento di governanti e popoli di fronte a tali eventi, Ferguson si propone di rispondere a queste domande. Perché sono tante le lezioni che l''Occidente ha urgente bisogno di imparare dalla storia se vuole evitare il destino di un declino irreversibile.

Rampspoed

release date: Jun 23, 2021
Rampspoed
Alle rampen worden tot op zekere hoogte door de mens veroorzaakt

Meydan ve Kule

release date: Mar 01, 2020

Het belang van geld

release date: Apr 17, 2019
Het belang van geld
Dit is het verhaal van voorspoed en crises zoals nooit eerder is verteld. Niall Ferguson toont overtuigend hoe het financiële de achtergrond vormt voor alle geschiedenis.

La Place et la Tour

release date: Apr 17, 2019
La Place et la Tour
L’histoire que l’on nous a enseignée est institutionnelle et hiérarchique. Ses acteurs sont les papes, les rois, les empereurs. Mais cette histoire officielle ne passe-t-elle pas à côté des réseaux, tout aussi puissants mais moins visibles, entretenant alors les fantasmes des théories conspirationnistes ? Le XXIe siècle a été qualifié d’âge des réseaux. Pourtant, Niall Ferguson le montre dans ce livre, les réseaux sociaux n’ont rien de nouveau. Qu’il s’agisse des imprimeurs et des prédicateurs qui ont fait la Réforme, ou des loges maçonniques et de leur rôle dans la révolution américaine, les réseaux – la Place – ont depuis toujours défié le monde ancien des hiérarchies – la Tour. Des Illuminati aux cercles des Lumières, de l’empire colonial britannique aux espions de la guerre froide, des récentes privatisations aux GAFA, Niall Ferguson propose une analyse radicalement nouvelle des organisations humaines. À quelles conditions les réseaux peuvent-ils conquérir les chaires, le pouvoir, la richesse ? Comment expliquer qu’ils supplantent aujourd’hui des structures hiérarchiques en voie d’épuisement ? Une lecture indispensable pour comprendre la complexité du monde. Niall Ferguson est un historien britannique, spécialisé dans l’histoire de l’économie et de la finance. Senior fellow à Harvard et Stanford, il est l’une des personnalités intellectuelles les plus en vue et les plus originales du monde anglo-saxon. Il est l’auteur de best-sellers internationaux, parmi lesquels L’Ascension de l’argent, ainsi que de biographies remarquées de la maison Rothschild et de Henry Kissinger.

A Praça e a Torre

release date: Jan 21, 2019
A Praça e a Torre
Um novo jeito de enxergar a história A maior parte da história é hierárquica: descreve papas, presidentes e líderes revolucionários. Porém, e se a razão disso for apenas o fato de as hierarquias criarem os arquivos históricos? E se estivermos ignorando redes igualmente poderosas, mas menos visíveis — deixando-as para os defensores de teorias conspiratórias, com seus sonhos de illuminati todo-poderosos? O século XXI tem sido chamado de a era das redes. No entanto, em A praça e a torre, Niall Ferguson argumenta que as redes sociais não são um fenômeno novo. Desde as gráficas e pregadores que fizeram a reforma aos maçons que lideraram a Revolução Norte-Americana, passando pelo Iluminismo, as grandes guerras e até a recessão econômica de 2008/2009, foram as redes que abalaram a ordem vigente. Ao longo da História, hierarquias alojadas em altas torres governavam, mas muitas vezes o poder real residia nas redes das praças das cidades. São as redes que tendem a inovar – e é através delas que as ideias revolucionárias se espalham. Longe de ser novidade, a nossa era é a Segunda Era das Redes, com o computador pessoal no lugar da prensa móvel. Portanto, aqueles que mantêm esperanças de uma utopia de "cidadãos da Internet" interconectados talvez se desapontem, pois as redes são suscetíveis a agregações, contágios, e até mesmo interrupções de atividades. E os conflitos dos séculos XVI e XVII já têm paralelos inquietantes hoje, na época do Facebook, do Estado Islâmico e do mundo de Trump.

Золотой рок

release date: Jan 01, 2019
Золотой рок
"В своей новой книге знаменитый историк Ниал Фергюсон дает обзор самых разных катастроф, случившихся в истории человечества: геологических, геополитических, биологических, технологических. Он рассматривает причины и последствия конкретных бедствий, в том числе пандемии COVID-19, а также в целом то, каким образом люди и общества реагируют на катастрофы и пытаются их предсказать. Опираясь на несколько научных дисциплин, среди которых экономика, клиодинамика и наука о сетях, Фергюсон пишет не только историю, но и общую теорию катастроф, и показывает, почему наши все более бюрократизированные и сложные системы управления все хуже справляются с ними."--

La plaza y la torre

release date: Sep 06, 2018
La plaza y la torre
Una historia de las redes organizacionales que han cambiado el mundo y una invitación a la reflexión escéptica sobre el papel que tienen en nuestra sociedad. Gran parte de la historia se explica de forma jerárquica: tiene que ver con papas, reyes o presidentes. Pero, ¿y si fuera así por el simple hecho de que han sido ellos los que han creado los archivos históricos? ¿Y si estuviéramos omitiendo y relegando la influencia de redes de organización igual de poderosas pero menos visibles? El siglo XXI se ha proclamado como la Era de la Red, pero en este libro Niall Ferguson nos recuerda que las redes sociales no tienen nada de novedoso. Desde la época de la imprenta y de los predicadores que llevaron a cabo la Reforma hasta los masones que lideraron la Revolución estadounidense, fueron las redes organizacionales las que interrumpieron el orden establecido. Así pues, lejos de ser una novedad, nuestra era es más bien una prolongación de la anterior, con el ordenador en el lugar central que en su momento ocupó el papel impreso. Las redes son propensas a la agrupación y la expansión, pero, ante todo, son propensas a las interrupciones. Así, los conflictos del pasado encuentran paralelismos desconcertantes en la actualidad, tanto en Facebook, como en el Estado Islámico y el mundo trumpiano. En La plaza y la torre , el mejor Ferguson revela la historia oculta de las redes organizacionales que han cambiado el rumbo del mundo y la presenta como un antídoto contra las teorías de la conspiración y un desafío a la historiografía tradicional, que nunca ha prestado demasiada atención a las redes informales de influencia. Reseñas: «Cautivante y convincente.» The New York Times «Niall Ferguson ha escrito nuevamente un brillante libro... En 400 páginas habrás reabastecido tu mente. Hazlo.» The Wall Street Journal «Ferguson nos recuerda que la red social no surgió completa de la mente de Mark Zuckerberg; más bien, es una fuerza persistente en los asuntos humanos que ofrece una lente novedosa sobre el pasado y el desconcertante presente.» San Francisco Chronicle «El intelecto y el estilo de Ferguson harán que su hábil revisión de la historia reverbere en los años venideros.» The Guardian

Türme und Plätze

release date: May 01, 2018

The Square and the Tower

release date: Jan 01, 2018
The Square and the Tower
''The most brilliant historian of his generation'' The Times Most history is hierarchical- it''s about popes, presidents, and prime ministers. But what if that''s simply because they create the historical archives? What if we are missing equally powerful but less visible networks - leaving them to the conspiracy theorists, with their dreams of all-powerful Illuminati? The twenty-first century has been hailed as the Networked Age. But in The Square and the Tower Niall Ferguson argues that social networks are nothing new. From the printers and preachers who made the Reformation to the freemasons who led the American Revolution, it was the networkers who disrupted the old order of popes and kings. Far from being novel, our era is the Second Networked Age, with the computer in the role of the printing press. But networks have a dark side, prone to clustering, contagions, and even outages. And the conflicts of the past already have unnerving parallels today, in the time of Facebook, Islamic State and Trumpworld.

Ascesa e declino del denaro. Una storia finanziaria del mondo

release date: Jan 01, 2018

Het plein en de toren

release date: Nov 15, 2017
Het plein en de toren
Hoe netwerken de wereldgeschiedenis hebben veranderd

Is This the End of the Liberal International Order?

release date: Nov 04, 2017
Is This the End of the Liberal International Order?
The twentieth semi-annual Munk Debate pits Niall Ferguson against Fareed Zakaria to debate the end of the liberal international order. Since the end of World War II, global affairs have been shaped by the increasing free movement of people and goods, international rules setting, and a broad appreciation of the mutual benefits of a more interdependent world. Together these factors defined the liberal international order and sustained an era of rising global prosperity and declining international conflict. But now, for the first time in a generation, the pillars of liberal internationalism are being shaken to their core by the reassertion of national borders, national interests, and nationalist politics across the globe. Can liberal internationalism survive these challenges and remain the defining rules-based system of the future? Or, are we witnessing the beginning of the end of the liberal international order? The twentieth semi-annual Munk Debate, held on April 28th, 2017, pits prominent historian Niall Ferguson against CNN’s Fareed Zakaria to debate the future of liberal internationalism.

The End of the Liberal Order?

release date: Nov 02, 2017
The End of the Liberal Order?
‘No civilization, no matter how mighty it may appear to itself, is indestructible.’ –Niall Ferguson ‘We do not need to invent the world anew. The international order established by the United States after World War II is in need of expansion and repair, but not reconception.’ –Fareed Zakaria Fears of a globalized world are rampant. Across the West, borders are being reasserted and old alliances tested to their limits. Could this be the end of the liberal order or will the major crises of the twenty-first century strengthen our resolve?

Il grido dei morti. La prima guerra mondiale: il più atroce conflitto di ogni tempo

release date: Jan 01, 2017

Always Right

release date: Oct 21, 2016
Always Right
In ALWAYS RIGHT historian Niall Ferguson offers a characteristically original, incisive and witty account of Margaret Thatcher''s reign – the word seems appropriate – as British Prime Minister. Denounced by her enemies as divisive and dictatorial, Thatcher was the greatest leader Britain has produced since Winston Churchill. The standard bearer for a decisive economic regime-change, she was also a social revolutionary who shook up the stagnant English class system. Yet she was a foreign policy realist, who restored her country’s standing in the world. And far from being an over-bearing prime minister, she ultimately fell victim to the machinations of Cabinet government. ALWAYS RIGHT is a fittingly frank assessment of a great woman who made history.

Kissinger

release date: Sep 29, 2015
Kissinger
From the bestselling author of The Ascent of Money and The Square and the Tower, the definitive biography of Henry Kissinger, based on unprecedented access to his private papers. Winner of the Council on Foreign Relations Arthur Ross Book Award No American statesman has been as revered or as reviled as Henry Kissinger. Once hailed as “Super K”—the “indispensable man” whose advice has been sought by every president from Kennedy to Obama—he has also been hounded by conspiracy theorists, scouring his every “telcon” for evidence of Machiavellian malfeasance. Yet as Niall Ferguson shows in this magisterial two-volume biography, drawing not only on Kissinger’s hitherto closed private papers but also on documents from more than a hundred archives around the world, the idea of Kissinger as the ruthless arch-realist is based on a profound misunderstanding. The first half of Kissinger’s life is usually skimmed over as a quintessential tale of American ascent: the Jewish refugee from Hitler’s Germany who made it to the White House. But in this first of two volumes, Ferguson shows that what Kissinger achieved before his appointment as Richard Nixon’s national security adviser was astonishing in its own right. Toiling as a teenager in a New York factory, he studied indefatigably at night. He was drafted into the U.S. infantry and saw action at the Battle of the Bulge—as well as the liberation of a concentration camp—but ended his army career interrogating Nazis. It was at Harvard that Kissinger found his vocation. Having immersed himself in the philosophy of Kant and the diplomacy of Metternich, he shot to celebrity by arguing for “limited nuclear war.” Nelson Rockefeller hired him. Kennedy called him to Camelot. Yet Kissinger’s rise was anything but irresistible. Dogged by press gaffes and disappointed by “Rocky,” Kissinger seemed stuck—until a trip to Vietnam changed everything. The Idealist is the story of one of the most important strategic thinkers America has ever produced. It is also a political Bildungsroman, explaining how “Dr. Strangelove” ended up as consigliere to a politician he had always abhorred. Like Ferguson’s classic two-volume history of the House of Rothschild, Kissinger sheds dazzling new light on an entire era. The essential account of an extraordinary life, it recasts the Cold War world.

Der Niedergang des Westens

release date: Oct 10, 2014

The Great Degeneration

release date: Jun 24, 2014
The Great Degeneration
From the bestselling author of The Ascent of Money and The Square and the Tower, a searching and provocative examination of the widespread institutional rot that threatens our collective future What causes rich countries to lose their way? Symptoms of decline are all around us today: slowing growth, crushing debts, increasing inequality, aging populations, antisocial behavior. But what exactly has gone wrong? The answer, Niall Ferguson argues in The Great Degeneration, is that our institutions—the intricate frameworks within which a society can flourish or fail—are degenerating. With characteristic verve and historical insight, Ferguson analyzes the causes of this stagnation and its profound consequences for the future of the West. The Great Degeneration is an incisive indictment of an era of negligence and complacency—and to arrest the breakdown of our civilization, Ferguson warns, will take heroic leadership and radical reform.

Krieg der Welt

release date: Apr 11, 2014

The Middle Parts of Fortune

release date: Jan 01, 2014
The Middle Parts of Fortune
A moving, raw and powerful novel about fighting on the front - ''The finest and noblest book of men in war that I have ever read'' (Ernest Hemingway) Bourne is a private fighting on the front. He is under pressure to accept a commission and become an officer, but he prefers to be among the ranks, drawn into the universal struggle for survival in a world gone mad. Manning''s startling work is unlike any other First World War novel in its portrayal of the lives of ordinary British soldiers: the trauma of the Somme; the moments of bloodlust; the camaraderie, rivalry, alcohol and boredom. Considered obscene for its language and previously published in censored form as Her Privates We, The Middle Parts of Fortune appears here in its raw, unexpurgated version.

Der falsche Krieg

release date: Nov 25, 2013
Der falsche Krieg
Welche Faktoren haben 1914 den Zusammenbruch der europäischen Ordnung tatsächlich bewirkt? Wie wäre die Entwicklung verlaufen, wenn Großbritannien nicht in den Krieg eingetreten wäre? Niall Ferguson entwirft ein weitgefasstes Panorama des Krieges, verdeutlicht das komplexe Ursachengeflecht und rückt insbesondere die Kriegsschuldfrage in ein neues Licht. Auch die häufig vorgebrachte These von der »Unvermeidbarkeit« des Ersten Weltkrieges ist so nicht länger haltbar. Ferguson geht sowohl mit der deutschen als auch mit der britischen Politik jener Zeit scharf ins Gericht: Auf beiden Seiten haben politisches Unvermögen, unverantwortlicher Ehrgeiz, katastrophale Fehleinschätzungen und der skrupellose Bruch internationalen Rechts zur »Urkatastrophe des 20. Jahrhunderts« geführt, die Millionen Menschen das Leben kostete und in fataler Weise auf die weitere Geschichte Europas gewirkt hat.

La gran degeneración

release date: Apr 04, 2013
La gran degeneración
Un análisis de las causas del declive actual de occidente. Hace tiempo que se anuncia el declive de Occidente, pero ahora los síntomas de esa decadencia nos acosan: un crecimiento mínimo, una deuda asfixiante, una población envejecida, conductas antisociales. ¿Qué le pasa a la civilización occidental? La respuesta que ofrece Niall Ferguson es que nuestras instituciones, los complejos marcos dentro de los que una sociedad puede florecer o fracasar, están degenerando. El gobierno representativo, el libre mercado, el imperio de la ley y la sociedad civil: estos solían ser los cuatro pilares de las sociedades occidentales. Estas instituciones, más que ninguna ventaja geográfica o climatológica, permitieron el dominio global de Occidente a partir de 1500. En nuestra época, sin embargo, estas instituciones se han deteriorado de modo alarmante. Nuestras democracias han roto el pacto intergeneracional al dejar una pesada carga de deuda a nuestros hijos y nietos. Nuestros mercados cada vez están más distorsionados por regulaciones excesivamente complejas que son la enfermedad de la que pretenden ser la cura. El imperio de la ley se ha convertido en el imperio de los abogados. Y la sociedad civil es ahora la sociedad incivil, en la que esperamos que el Estado resuelva todos nuestros problemas. La gran degeneración es un poderoso y en ocasiones polémico alegato contra una era de negligencia y pasividad. Mientras el mundo árabe lucha por alcanzar la democracia y China avanza de la liberalización económica al imperio de la ley, europeos y estadounidenses malgastan el legado institucional construido a lo largo de varios siglos. Detener la degeneración de la civilización occidental, advierte Ferguson, requerirá líderes audaces y una reforma radical.

A ascensão do dinheiro

release date: Mar 19, 2013
A ascensão do dinheiro
O que é o dinheiro? O que os bancos fazem? Qual é a diferença entre uma ação e um título? Por que contratar e comprar um seguro de bens imóveis? E o que faz exatamente um fundo hedge? Considerado pela revista Times uma das cem pessoas mais influentes do mundo, o historiador Niall Ferguson traz um estudo brilhante da história financeira em A ascensão do dinheiro, e explica porque os aspectos financeiros só fazem sentido se soubermos sua origem. E ainda documenta como uma nova revolução financeira está impulsionando alguns dos maiores países do mundo, da pobreza abjeta à riqueza no espaço de uma única geração - uma transformação econômica sem precedentes na história humana.

Der Westen und der Rest der Welt : die Geschichte vom Wettstreit der Kulturen

release date: Jan 01, 2013
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