false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1165766703m/8907.jpg 8907 9 Niall Fergusson's most important book to date-a revolutionary reinterpretation of the modern era that resolves its central paradox: why unprecedented progress coincided with unprecedented violence and why the seeming triumph of the West bore the seeds of its undoing. <br/><br/> From the conflicts that presaged the First World War to the aftershocks of the cold war, the twentieth century was by far the bloodiest in all of human history. How can we explain the astonishing scale and intensity of its violence when, thanks to the advances of science and economics, most people were better off than ever before-eating better, growing taller, and living longer? Wherever one looked, the world in 1900 offered the happy prospect of ever-greater interconnection. Why, then, did global progress descend into internecine war and genocide? Drawing on a pioneering combination of history, economics, and evolutionary theory, Niall Ferguson-one of <i>Time</i> magazine's "100 Most Influential People"-masterfully examines what he calls the age of hatred and sets out to explain what went wrong with modernity. <br/><br/> On a quest that takes him from the Siberian steppe to the plains of Poland, from the streets of Sarajevo to the beaches of Okinawa, Ferguson reveals an age turned upside down by economic volatility, multicultural communities torn apart by the irregularities of boom and bust, an era poisoned by the idea of irreconcilable racial differences, and a struggle between decaying old empires and predatory new states. Who won the war of the world? We tend to assume it was the West. Some even talk of the American century. But for Ferguson, the biggest upshot of twentieth-century upheaval was the decline of Western dominance over Asia. <br/><br/> A work of revelatory interpretive power, <i>The War of the World</i> is Niall Ferguson's masterwork. 1263465 21 9 2006 The War of the World: Twentieth-Century Conflict and the Descent of the West total:193|5:60|4:88|3:40|2:5|1:0| 193 782 393 45 4 3 false false Sat Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Sat Jan 19 07:11:41 -0800 2008 Sat Jan 19 08:21:03 -0800 2008 more...]]> 0 2 false false Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Thu Dec 20 10:52:47 -0800 2007 Fri Jan 25 13:47:55 -0800 2008
Firstly the author Mr. Furguson has a pe...more...]]> 5 2 false false Mon Nov 10 07:06:59 -0800 2008 Mon Nov 10 07:11:07 -0800 2008 more...]]> 3 1 false false Fri Feb 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Thu Nov 29 14:18:42 -0800 2007 Tue Feb 19 15:00:57 -0800 2008 The Pity of War was particularly good. The War of the World incorporates material from his book on World War I, expanding on his conclusions there and projecting them forward to...more...]]> 4 1 false false Sun Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Fri Jul 20 14:24:56 -0700 2007 Mon Jul 23 15:50:12 -0700 2007 more...]]> 0 0 false false Thu Feb 05 09:50:33 -0800 2009 Thu Feb 05 09:50:33 -0800 2009 Niall Ferguson, Oxford and Harvard historian and author of Empire (***1/2 July/Aug 2003), Colossus (**1/2 Sept/Oct 2004),and The Pity of War: Explaining World War One (1998), examines humankind's seemingly insatiable appetite for violence. Combining sweeping overviews and more intimate anecdotes and...

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