If in the year 1411 you had been able to circumnavigate the globe, you would have been most impressed by the dazzling civilizations of the Orient. The Forbidden City was under construction in Ming Beijing; in the Near East, the Ottomans were closing in on Constantinople. By contrast, England would have struck you as a miserable backwater ravaged by plague, bad sanitation and incessant war. The other quarrelsome kingdoms of Western Europe – Aragon, Castile, France, Portugal and Scotland – would have seemed little better. As for fifteenth-century North America, it was an anarchic wilderness compared with the realms of the Aztecs and Incas. The idea that the West would come to dominate the Rest for most of the next half millennium would have struck you as wildly fanciful. And yet it happened. What was it about the civilization of Western Europe that allowed it to trump the outwardly superior empires of the Orient? The answer, Niall Ferguson argues, was that the West developed six “killer applications” that the Rest lacked: competition, science, democracy, medicine, consumerism and the work ethic. The key question today is whether or not the West has lost its monopoly on these six things. If so, Ferguson warns, we may be living through the end of Western ascendancy. Civilization takes readers on their own extraordinary journey around the world – from the Grand Canal at Nanjing to the Topkapi Palace in Istanbul; from Machu Picchu in the Andes to Shark Island, Namibia; from the proud towers of Prague to the secret churches of Wenzhou. It is the story of sailboats, missiles, land deeds, vaccines, blue jeans and Chinese Bibles. It is the defining narrative of modern world history.

The definitive biography of Henry Kissinger, based on unprecedented access to his private papers
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.

《罗斯柴尔德家族第1部:金钱的先知》内容简介：它是世界上最神秘的金融家族，它被认为是世界金融市场的幕后推手，关于它的传说广泛流传，它究竟是一个怎样的家族？著名金融历史学家尼尔·弗格森在研究了隐藏半个多世纪的文件，总结数万封信件的内容之后，首次详尽地揭开了罗斯柴尔德家族的真面目。
从布料商人起家，罗斯柴尔德家族逐渐建立起了自己的环球帝国，经历多次全球巨变的洗礼，至第一次世界大战为止，他们一直保持着世界上第一大银行的地位，而且他们的商业触觉远远超越了金融的范畴。它是怎样达到如此重要的地位的？《罗斯柴尔德家族.第1部:金钱的先知》去除了流传两个世纪的神话，揭示了这个家族经济成功背后的秘密，以及它庞大的政治网络。它横跨经济、社会、政治和外交等领域，以最大的深度、清晰的脉络和动人的戏剧性剖析了这个现代历史上最令人目眩和最有权势的家族，为我们揭开了全球经济政治背后推手的真实传奇。
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罗斯柴尔德家族(上)
尼尔•弗格森经典系列：
金钱关系
顶级金融家
虚拟的历史
帝国
文明
罗斯柴尔德家族(套装共4册)
罗斯柴尔德家族第3部:动荡的年代
罗斯柴尔德家族第4部:世界的银行家
罗斯柴尔德家族第2部:金融统治者
货币崛起:金融如何影响世界历史

《货币崛起:金融如何影响世界历史》作者从一个全新的角度描述了货币的历史，让你知道金融演化进程背后发生的事情。在全球信贷紧缩、金融行业出现危机的形势下，“货币”已成为全球最热门的词语之一。货币究竟怎样影响到我们今天的社会？在书中，我们随货币进行了一次穿越时间的旅行。从欧洲大陆流通的古罗马银币，到成为第一批银行家的意大利高利贷者；从五千年前流通的泥土“货币”，到今天银行外汇显示屏卜闪烁的数字，在人类社会的进步中，金融常常是背后的推手。罗斯柴尔德家族为什么能在滑铁卢战役中大赚一笔？文艺复兴的深层推动力是什么？中国和美国如何开始成为共同体？《货币崛起:金融如何影响世界历史》告诉我们，每个历史故事背后都有一条金融线索。透过弗格森的专业视角，许多为人熟知的历史事件被赋予新的意义，更清晰地成为金融史上的一座座里程碑，而金融的发展进程则构成一切历史背后最为本质的故事背景。
在金融危机的时代，我们应该怎样看待金融这个虚拟市场？又怎样整顿自我，重新出发？《货币崛起:金融如何影响世界历史》给大家提供厂一个历史的视角来理解今口的世界，无疑，它将是当前我们处在历史分歧点，站在人类文明一路走来的位置时，为我们提供的一部宝贵的指南。 点击链接进入新版 ：
货币崛起
尼尔•弗格森经典系列：
金钱关系
顶级金融家
虚拟的历史
帝国
文明
罗斯柴尔德家族(套装共4册)
罗斯柴尔德家族第3部:动荡的年代
罗斯柴尔德家族第4部:世界的银行家
罗斯柴尔德家族第1部:金钱的先知
罗斯柴尔德家族第2部:金融统治者

《罗斯柴尔德家族第2部:金融统治者》内容简介：它是世界上最神秘的金融家族，它被认为是世界金融市场的幕后推手，关于它的传说广泛流传，它究竟是一个怎样的家族？著名金融历史学家尼尔·弗格森在研究了隐藏半个多世纪的文件，总结数万封信件的内容之后，首次详尽地揭开了罗斯柴尔德家族的真面目。
从布料商人起家，罗斯柴尔德家族逐渐建立起了自己的环球帝国，经历多次全球巨变的洗礼，至第一次世界大战为止，他们一直保持着世界上第一大银行的地位，而且他们的商业触觉远远超越了金融的范畴。它是怎样达到如此重要的地位的？《罗斯柴尔德家族.第2部:金融统治者》去除了流传两个世纪的神话，揭示了这个家族经济成功背后的秘密，以及它庞大的政治网络。它横跨经济、社会、政治和外交等领域，以最大的深度、清晰的脉络和动人的戏剧性剖析了这个现代历史上最令人目眩和最有权势的家族，为我们揭开了全球经济政治背后推手的真实传奇。 点击链接进入新版 ：
罗斯柴尔德家族(下)
尼尔•弗格森经典系列：
金钱关系
顶级金融家
虚拟的历史
帝国
文明
罗斯柴尔德家族(套装共4册)
罗斯柴尔德家族第3部:动荡的年代
罗斯柴尔德家族第4部:世界的银行家
罗斯柴尔德家族第1部:金钱的先知
货币崛起:金融如何影响世界历史

《罗斯柴尔德家族第4部:世界的银行家》内容简介：去除了流传两个世纪的神话，揭示了这个家族经济成功背后的秘密，以及它庞大的政治网络。它横跨经济、社会、政治和外交等领域，以最大的深度、清晰的脉络和动人的戏剧性剖析了这个现代历史上最令人目眩和最有权势的家族，为我们揭开了全球经济政治背后推手的真实传奇。
著名金融历史学家尼尔·弗格森在研究了隐藏半个多世纪的文件，总结数万封信件的内容之后，首次详尽地揭开了罗斯柴尔德家族的真面目。从布料商人起家，罗斯柴尔德家族逐渐建立起了自己的环球帝国，经历多次全球巨变的洗礼，至第一次世界大战为止，他们一直保持着世界上第一大银行的地位，而且他们的商业触觉远远超越了金融的范畴。它是怎样达到如此重要的地位的？
尼尔•弗格森经典系列：
金钱关系
顶级金融家
虚拟的历史
帝国
文明
罗斯柴尔德家族(套装共4册)
罗斯柴尔德家族第3部:动荡的年代
罗斯柴尔德家族第1部:金钱的先知
罗斯柴尔德家族第2部:金融统治者
货币崛起:金融如何影响世界历史

《罗斯柴尔德家族第3部:动荡的年代》内容简介：去除了流传两个世纪的神话，揭示了这个家族经济成功背后的秘密，以及它庞大的政治网络。它横跨经济、社会、政治和外交等领域，以最大的深度、清晰的脉络和动人的戏剧性剖析了这个现代历史上最令人目眩和最有权势的家族，为我们揭开了全球经济政治背后推手的真实传奇。
著名金融历史学家尼尔·弗格森在研究了隐藏半个多世纪的文件，总结数万封信件的内容之后，首次详尽地揭开了罗斯柴尔德家族的真面目。从布料商人起家，罗斯柴尔德家族逐渐建立起了自己的环球帝国，经历多次全球巨变的洗礼，至第一次世界大战为止，他们一直保持着世界上第一大银行的地位，而且他们的商业触觉远远超越了金融的范畴。它是怎样达到如此重要的地位的？ 点击链接进入新版 ：
罗斯柴尔德家族(中)
尼尔•弗格森经典系列：
金钱关系
顶级金融家
虚拟的历史
帝国
文明
罗斯柴尔德家族(套装共4册)
罗斯柴尔德家族第4部:世界的银行家
罗斯柴尔德家族第1部:金钱的先知
罗斯柴尔德家族第2部:金融统治者
货币崛起:金融如何影响世界历史

《未曾发生的历史》是一部以严肃的学术态度、从新颖的切入角度深入人类历程的历史著作。它对历史决定论垄断性的盛行加以反思，并赋予偶然性以恰如其分的地位，为历史还原其真实面目。藉此，迷失于目的论历史叙述中的人类终于得以面对质朴的历史细节本身，并对未来作出不再被误导的展望。
书的内容是对世界历史进行一系列假设分析研究，包括“没有克伦威尔的英国”、“英国的北美”、“德国皇帝的欧洲联盟”、“希特勒的英国”等9章。

If in the year 1411 you had been able to circumnavigate the globe, you would have been most impressed by the dazzling civilizations of the Orient. The Forbidden City was under construction in Ming Beijing; in the Near East, the Ottomans were closing in on Constantinople. By contrast, England would have struck you as a miserable backwater ravaged by plague, bad sanitation and incessant war. The other quarrelsome kingdoms of Western Europe - Aragon, Castile, France, Portugal and Scotland - would have seemed little better. As for fifteenth-century North America, it was an anarchic wilderness compared with the realms of the Aztecs and Incas. The idea that the West would come to dominate the Rest for most of the next half millennium would have struck you as wildly fanciful. And yet it happened. What was it about the civilization of Western Europe that allowed it to trump the outwardly superior empires of the Orient? The answer, Niall Ferguson argues, was that the West developed six 'killer applications' that the Rest lacked: competition, science, democracy, medicine, consumerism and the work ethic. The key question today is whether or not the West has lost its monopoly on these six things. If so, Ferguson warns, we may be living through the end of Western ascendancy. Civilization takes readers on their own extraordinary journey around the world - from the Grand Canal at Nanjing to the Topkapi Palace in Istanbul; from Machu Picchu in the Andes to Shark Island, Namibia; from the proud towers of Prague to the secret churches of Wenzhou. It is the story of sailboats, missiles, land deeds, vaccines, blue jeans and Chinese Bibles. It is the defining narrative of modern world history.

"1500年，北京生活着近70万人，伦敦人口仅有5万；
400年后，伦敦以超过600万的人口成为全球特大城市；
1990年，美国人均富裕程度是中国人的70倍。
短短500年中，西方如何在发展中获得巨大优势？今天的西方危机频频，它的主导地位已经结束了吗？未来的世界新秩序又将是怎样？
英国最重要的金融历史学家之一尼尔•弗格森在新书中深入探讨了东西方文明的发展模式。明朝时的中国在15世纪无疑是当时世界上最伟大的文明，其海军曾远征至非洲海岸。在此之后，中国开始走上全面下滑之路，而西方文明蒸蒸日上。这种逆转的原因是什么？今天的西方文明正在失去活力，而其他文明正在蓬勃崛起。东方是怎样学到了西方的秘密武器？作者在本书中深刻分析了东西方文明的碰撞，认为世界权力的天平正在从西方向东方转移，本世纪剩下的时间将会向我们展示这种转变如何完成。在这个世界格局发生深刻变化的时点，阅读本书，必能帮你了解东西方权力转移的微妙过程，同时从大历史的视角，理解中国复兴在世界历史进程中的角色。"

More than any other event, the First World War made the twentieth century. In this boldly conceived book, aimed to appeal not only to students but also to the general reader, Niall Ferguson explodes many of the myths surrounding the war.

《纸与铁》提出了全新的观点，以颇有影响力的汉堡工商界为切入点，分析了为通货膨胀政策辩护的那些理由存在的漏洞，指出通货膨胀严重危害了德国经济，侵蚀了资产阶级社会的根基，使魏玛共和国这个福利国家失信于民。此外，通货膨胀也没能使赔款减少。作者剖析了长期以来德国政治经济体系的弊端。不仅揭示了魏玛共和国的失败根源可以追溯到威廉德国时期，而且还为分析第三帝国的兴起提供了不同的视角。在《纸与铁》德国经济灾难和政治之间关系的生动阐述中，相信你一定会从一个全新的角度理解德国通胀。
1923年德国的恶性通货膨胀是历史上少数影响深远的经济事件之一，人们普遍认为它是导致希特勒发迹的根源。然而，近年来有很多历史学家认为，通货膨胀政策不但刺激了经济增长，而且还帮助德国减少了赔款，因此对于1918年以后的德国是利大于弊。当时的德国没有其他可行的替代方案。
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Niall Ferguson follows the money to tell the human story behind the evolution of finance, from its origins in ancient Mesopotamia to the latest upheavals on what he calls Planet Finance .
Bread, cash, dosh, dough, loot, lucre, moolah, readies, the wherewithal: Call it what you like, it matters. To Christians, love of it is the root of all evil. To generals, its the sinews of war. To revolutionaries, its the chains of labor. But in The Ascent of Money , Niall Ferguson shows that finance is in fact the foundation of human progress. Whats more, he reveals financial history as the essential backstory behind all history.
Through Fergusons expert lens familiar historical landmarks appear in a new and sharper financial focus. Suddenly, the civilization of the Renaissance looks very different: a boom in the market for art and architecture made possible when Italian bankers adopted Arabic mathematics. The rise of the Dutch republic is reinterpreted as the triumph of the worlds first modern bond market over insolvent Habsburg absolutism. And the origins of the French Revolution are traced back to a stock market bubble caused by a convicted Scot murderer.
With the clarity and verve for which he is known, Ferguson elucidates key financial institutions and concepts by showing where they came from. What is money? What do banks do? Whats the difference between a stock and a bond? Why buy insurance or real estate? And what exactly does a hedge fund do?
This is history for the present. Ferguson travels to post-Katrina New Orleans to ask why the free market cant provide adequate protection against catastrophe. He delves into the origins of the subprime mortgage crisis.
Perhaps most important, The Ascent of Money documents how a new financial revolution is propelling the worlds biggest countries, India and China, from poverty to wealth in the space of a single generationan economic transformation unprecedented in human history.
Yet the central lesson of the financial history is that sooner or later every bubble burstssooner or later the bearish sellers outnumber the bullish buyers, sooner or later greed flips into fear. And thats why, whether youre scraping by or rolling in it, theres never been a better time to understand the ascent of money.