Civilization: The Six Killer Apps of Western Power - Softcover

Ferguson, Niall

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0141044586 ISBN 13: 9780141044583

Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd, 2012

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About the Author:

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 fellow of the Center for European Studies at Harvard University, and a Visiting Professor at Tsinghua University, Beijing. His books include The House of Rothschild, Empire, The War of the World, The Ascent of Money, The Great Degeneration and Kissinger, 1923-1968: The Idealist. His many 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).

Review:

Ferguson is the most brilliant British historian of his generation ... he writes with splendid panache * The Times * One of the world's leading historians -- Hamish McRae * Independent * Civilization is another masterpiece ... a pulsing energy suffuses his account [and] fascinating facts burst like fireworks on every page -- Dominic Lawson * Sunday Times * This is sharp. It feels urgent. Ferguson, with a properly financially literate mind, twists his knife with great literary brio -- Andrew Marr * Financial Times * A dazzling history of Western ideas * Economist *

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 0141044586
• ISBN 13: 9780141044583
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 402