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Doom: The Politics of Catastrophe

A Financial History of the World

The Ascent of Money

How Britain Made the Modern World

Empire

The West and the Rest

Civilization

Networks, Hierarchies and the Struggle for Global Power

The Square and the Tower

1923-1968: The Idealist

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Somme And Ancre, 1916

The Middle Parts of Fortune

How Institutions Decay and Economies Die

The Great Degeneration

History's Age of Hatred

The War of the World

The Rise and Fall of the American Empire

Colossus

The Pity of War

The Lives and Time of Siegmund Warburg

High Financier

Money and Politics in Modern History, 1700-2000

The Cash Nexus

The World's Banker 1849-1998

The House of Rothschild

Money's Prophets 1798-1848

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Quite brilliant, inspiring for the layman and an enviable tour de force for the informed reader ... A wonderful book ... lucid, exciting and easy to read

Ferguson constructs an entire scenario starting with Charles I's defeat of the Covenanters, running through three revolutions that did not happen and climaxing with the collapse of the West, ruled by an Anglo-American empire, in the face of a mighty transcontinental, tsarist Russian imperium ... A welcome, optimistic assault on an intellectual heresy

A talented and imaginative team who tackle with counterfactual verve a series of turning points

Alternatives and Counterfactuals

What if Britain had stayed out of the First World War? What if Germany had won the Second? How would England look if there had been no Cromwell? What would the world be like if Communism had never collapsed? And what if John F. Kennedy had lived? 
 
In this acclaimed book, leading historians from Andrew Roberts to Michael Burleigh explore what might have been if nine of the most decisive moments in modern history had never happened.

Edited by Niall Ferguson, Virtual History applies 'counterfactual' arguments to decisive moments in modern history. 
 
What if Britain had stayed out of the First World War? 
What if Germany had invaded Britain in 1940? 
What if Nazi Germany had defeated the Soviet Union? 
How would England look if there had been no Cromwell? 
What if there had been no American Revolution? 
And what if John F. Kennedy had lived? 
 
In this acclaimed book, leading historians from Andrew Roberts to Michael Burleigh challenge the complacency of traditional accounts, exploring what might have been if nine of the most decisive moments in modern history had never happened. 
 
'Quite brilliant, inspiring for the layman and an enviable tour de force for the informed reader ... A wonderful book ... lucid, exciting and easy to read' - Literary Review 
 
'Ferguson constructs an entire scenario starting with Charles I's defeat of the Covenanters, running through three revolutions that did not happen and climaxing with the collapse of the West, ruled by an Anglo-American empire, in the face of a mighty transcontinental, tsarist Russian imperium ... A welcome, optimistic assault on an intellectual heresy' - Sunday Times 
 
'A talented and imaginative team who tackle with counterfactual verve a series of turning points' - Daily Telegraph

Niall Ferguson is one of Britain's most renowned historians. He is the Milbank Family Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University, a senior faculty fellow of the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard, and a visiting professor at Tsinghua University, Beijing. He is the author of fifteen books, including The Pity of War, The House of Rothschild, Empire, Civilization and Kissinger, 1923-1968: The Idealist, which won the Council on Foreign Relations Arthur Ross Prize. He is an award-making filmmaker, too, having won an international Emmy for his PBS series The Ascent of Money. His many other prizes include the Benjamin Franklin Prize for Public Service (2010), the Hayek Prize for Lifetime Achievement (2012) and the Ludwig Erhard Prize for Economic Journalism (2013). He was named Columnist of the Year at the 2018 British Press Awards.

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