Niall Ferguson
Дата рождения: April 18, 1964 – Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom
Niall Ferguson is a British-American historian specializing in international, economic, and financial history. Best known for The Ascent of Money and Empire, his work has won the International Emmy and the Wadsworth Prize. Ferguson’s scholarship and commentary have significantly influenced debates on the British Empire and global finance.
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Niall Ferguson, born in Glasgow in 1964, is a British-American historian renowned for his influential work on international, economic, and financial history. Educated at Magdalen College, Oxford, where he graduated with First Class Honours in 1985, Ferguson's early academic journey included a Hanseatic Scholarship in Germany and a research fellowship at Christ’s College, Cambridge. He rapidly advanced through academic ranks, returning to Oxford as a professor before undertaking appointments at New York University, Harvard University, and later Stanford University, where he holds the prestigious Milbank Family Senior Fellowship at the Hoover Institution. His teaching career has also included visiting positions at LSE and a role as senior faculty fellow at Harvard's Belfer Center.
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"Andrew Roberts in The New York Times praised Niall Ferguson's Kissinger as 'comprehensive, well written and riveting' and suggested it could be his masterpiece"
— The New York Times
"Eric Hobsbawm, while praising Niall Ferguson as an excellent historian, criticized him as a 'nostalgist for empire."
— Eric Hobsbawm
"Robert Skidelsky in The New York Review of Books called Niall Ferguson's Rothschild volumes a 'stupendous achievement, a triumph of historical research and imagination."
— The New York Review of Books
"The Economist noted Niall Ferguson's past work could be rushed, but called his Kissinger biography a work of 'engrossing scholarship."
— The Economist
"The Economist, reviewing Ferguson's War of the World, described his two books on the Rothschilds as 'one of the finest studies of its kind."
— The Economist
"Bernard Porter in The London Review of Books challenged Niall Ferguson's Empire as a 'panegyric to British colonialism."
— The London Review of Books
"John Lewis Gaddis called Niall Ferguson's scholarship on the Rothschilds 'unrivaled in range, productivity and visibility,' though critiqued it as sometimes unpersuasive"
— John Lewis Gaddis
"TIME magazine named Niall Ferguson one of the 100 most influential people in the world after the publication of Colossus"
— TIME
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