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  <name><![CDATA[Niall Ferguson]]></name>
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  <about><![CDATA[Niall Ferguson (born April 18, 1964, in Glasgow) is a British (Scottish) historian who specialises in financial and economic history as well as the history of empire. He is the Laurence A. Tisch Professor of History at Harvard University and the William Ziegler Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. He was educated at the private Glasgow Academy in Scotland, and at Magdalen College, Oxford.

He is best known outside academia for his revisionist views rehabilitating imperialism and colonialism; within academia, his championing of counterfactual history is a subject of some considerable controversy. In 2008, Allen Lane published his most recent book, The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World which he also presented as a Channel 4 television series.]]></about>    <gender>male</gender>  <hometown>Glasgow, Scotland</hometown>  <born_at>04/18/1964</born_at>    
  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[The Ascent of Money : A Financial History of the World]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[Empire]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[The War of the World: Twentieth-Century Conflict and the Descent of the West]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[Colossus: The Rise and Fall of the American Empire]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[The Pity of War: Explaining World War I]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[The Cash Nexus: Money and Power in the Modern World, 1700-2000]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Niall Ferguson]]></name>
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  <title><![CDATA[Virtual History: Alternatives and Counterfactuals]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[The House of Rothschild: Volume 1: Money's Prophets: 1798-1848]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Niall Ferguson]]></name>
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  <title><![CDATA[The House of Rothschild: Volume 2: The World's Banker: 1849-1999]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Niall Ferguson]]></name>
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  <published>1998</published>  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[Paper and Iron]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Niall Ferguson]]></name>
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