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	Book review of Niall Ferguson
		Ferguson's book is a competent and thorough analysis of the USA as an empire of a unique kind: an anti-imperialist empire.
		Ferguson claims that the Middle East has always been characterized by clashes, and that the Arab-Israeli conflict, the Iranian revolution and today's civil war in Iraq are all side effects of a general pattern that was already there.
		Ferguson spends quite a bit of time defending the politically incorrect view that imperialism is sometimes a good idea for the nations being enslaved.
	www.scaruffi.com /politics/ferguson.html (1389 words)

	Niall Ferguson - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Ferguson was formerly the John Herzog Chair of Financial History at NYU, and Professor of Modern History at University of Oxford.
		Ferguson's favorite historian is Fritz Stern whom Ferguson has praised as one of the few historians who are just as well-versed in economic matters as in historical questions.
		Ferguson has occasionally supported the policies of George W. Bush, especially his foreign policy, but sees the economic and financial policies of the Bush administration as potentially putting the economic health of the United States at serious risk and he opposed Bush's reelection in 2004 ([2]).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Niall_Ferguson (2089 words)

	Amazon.ca: Colossus: Books: Niall Ferguson (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Ferguson is not fundamentally opposed to empires-not because he likes foreign control but because he recognizes a benign type of liberal empire that can afford both the metropolis and periphery with benefits that independence cannot.
		Ferguson is enthusiastic about the prospect of a liberal empire, a position he bases on the record of decolonization; decolonization, he writes, was "an experiment to test the hypothesis that it was imperialism that caused both poverty and wars and that self-determination would ultimately pave the way to prosperity and peace.
		Niall Ferguson does praise the British empire moderately, saying it was on whole more a force for good than bad, but he still says that traditional imperialism is generally a bad thing.
	www.amazon.ca /Colossus-Niall-Ferguson/dp/1594200130 (2399 words)

	"Right Man's Burden" by Benjamin Wallace-Wells
		Ferguson is out of sync with the academy in style, politics, and manner, but he has been a useful intellectual prod, the appeal of his radical theories forcing mainstream academics to refine their own thinking.
		Ferguson's nimble descriptive talents were on display (his devastating reconstructions of the horrors of battle are among the best I've ever read), as was his facility for the attention-grabbing stat (it cost the Germans just $5,000 to kill an allied soldier; the much wealthier allies, meanwhile, spent $16,000 for each slaughtered Teuton).
		Ferguson says that we shouldn't evaluate the idea of empire by the failure of imperial efforts during the last 50 years, because the would-be imperialists have lacked the will and political support to commit themselves fully to an imperial policy, to risk the needed troops and the funds.
	www.washingtonmonthly.com /features/2004/0406.wallace-wells.html (4252 words)

	Q&A with Niall Ferguson - The Boston Globe
		Ferguson believes the real problem with an empire shows up when it declines, at which time genocidal hatred is liable to break out among the ethnic groups it had governed.
		FERGUSON: For one thing, nation states are a relatively recent phenomenon: Even at the beginning of the 20th century, 82 percent of the world's population lived in empires.
		FERGUSON: One of the great ironies of anti-imperialism as an ideology is that it was refined and formulated by Vladimir Illich Lenin, whose Soviet Union became a souped-up version of the Tsarist Empire.
	www.boston.com /news/globe/ideas/articles/2006/09/24/qa_with_niall_ferguson (1166 words)

	The Religion Report - 29 March 2006 - Niall Ferguson on Islam and demographics
		Niall Ferguson is an economic historian; he's the author of a two-volume history of the Rothschild banking family; 'The Cash Nexus - Money and power in the modern world 1700-2000'; 'Empire - The Rise and Fall of the British Empire and the lessons for global power'.
		Niall Ferguson: Well it's obviously an economic story that drives this migration, and it'll continue to drive it because it's very hard to stop these migratory movements when European societies are aging as rapidly as they are, and I don't think you can easily separate these economic factors out from their cultural consequences.
		Niall Ferguson: I think one has to be very careful here about conjuring up imagers of demographic floods, that was an image often used in debates on immigration in the late 1960s and 1970s.
	www.abc.net.au /rn/religionreport/stories/2006/1603430.htm (3879 words)

	Amazon.ca: Empire: Books: Niall Ferguson (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Ferguson does not downplay at all the sins of the British administration in its colonies: e.g., eager pursuit of slavery in the 18th century, brutal crushing of failed rebellions against British rule in the 19th and 20th centuries and mismanagement of famines in the 19th century.
		Niall Ferguson apparently feels no emotional attachment towards the British Empire before the mid to late 19th Century, and the portion of the book dealing that period is straightforward and honest.
		Ferguson is a brilliant writer especially strong on economic growth allowing England to dominate the nineteenth century through her sea trade and control over vast areas of the globe.
	www.amazon.ca /Empire-Niall-Ferguson/dp/0141007540 (2883 words)

	An Oxford Scot at King Dubya’s court: Niall Ferguson’s ’Colossus’ Stephen Howe - openDemocracy (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Ferguson is now apparently preparing at least three more book projects: a study of the second world war, a biography of the banker Seymour Warburg, and an analysis of global demographic trends (about which he has recently published several short articles).
		Ferguson is famous, or notorious, for his forceful assertions that the British empire, and the model of liberal empire of which it was the foremost exemplar, was good.
		Niall Ferguson’s writing on empire past and present has at least the negative merit of challenging his critics to think harder about what kind of world they would have instead.
	www.opendemocracy.net /debates/article-3-77-2021.jsp (6380 words)

	Empire by Niall Ferguson
		Ferguson makes the case in an oblique way; he suggests that one reason the British can be excused for colonization is that they were efficient governors.
		But Ferguson argues that white racism against the people of colonized lands was something that the empire tried valiantly to stop, if only because the empire knew that it could not rule over people who hated their rulers.
		Ferguson does not excuse racism, and he points out that the feelings of whites toward the natives did lead, in some way, to the downfall of the empire.
	www.israelblog.org /Articles/Empire_by_Niall_Ferguson.html (3237 words)

	Barnes & Noble.com - Books: Empire, by Niall Ferguson, Hardcover
		Niall Ferguson, an eminent professor of political and financial history at Oxford and New York universities, brilliantly challenges the simplistic focus on racism, violence and exploitation.
		Ferguson may be right in stressing how much British rule facilitated the spread of liberal capitalism around the world, how much worse other empires in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries turned out to be, how much the United Kingdom did for free trade, and so on.
		Ferguson does not downplay at all the sins of the British administration in its colonies: e.g., eager pursuit of slavery in the 18th century, brutal crushing of failed rebellions against British rule in the 19th and 20th centuries and mismanagement of famines in the 19th century.
	search.barnesandnoble.com /Empire/Niall-Ferguson/e/9780465023288 (3266 words)

	Amazon.de: Empire: English Books: Niall Ferguson (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Ferguson, author of The Pity of War and The Cash Nexus, does not so much provide a synoptic survey of the British empire since the 17th century, as an arresting argument about why it arose, and how it fell.
		Ferguson's emphasis throughout is on the pursuit of economic profit and military might.
		But Ferguson is also alive to the peculiarities of British dominion: the manly and Christian civil service--less than a thousand strong--who ruled India, missionaries such as Livingstone, who explored and mapped as they preached and the barons of empire--Rhodes, Curzon, and Kitchener--who found in empire an outlet for their homoeroticism.
	www.amazon.de /Empire-Niall-Ferguson/dp/0141007540 (945 words)

	Amazon.fr : The Pity of War: Livres en anglais: Niall Ferguson (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Ferguson argues that Britain was as much to blame for the start of the war as Germany, and that, had Britain sacrificed Belgium to Germany, the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution would never have happened.
		Ferguson argues that Germany had a justifiable fear of Russian and French militarism and was merely making a preemptive strike in August 1914.
		Ferguson's war is, in the end, simply an economic problem.
	www.amazon.fr /Pity-War-Niall-Ferguson/dp/0465057128 (674 words)

	Harvard Gazette: Ferguson: Empire without apology
		Ferguson, a prolific and controversial scholar who will join the Harvard History Department in 2004-05, provided the oration at the 223rd Phi Beta Kappa Literary Exercises.
		Ferguson did not dispute the existence of America and Britain's special relationship.
		Ferguson, whose latest book, "Colossus: The Price of America's Empire" (2004), affirms the necessity of world domination by an enlightened superpower and urges the United States to unashamedly assume that role, cautioned his audience that in the future America will pretty much have to go it alone.
	www.news.harvard.edu /gazette/2004/06.10/15-ferguson.html (909 words)

	Niall Ferguson (person)@Everything2.com
		Niall Ferguson, British historian and realist, was born on April 18, 1964 in Glasgow, Scotland.
		Ferguson is the leading academic champion of counterfactual history, where he imagines alternative outcomes as a way of stressing the contingent aspects of history.
		Ferguson is a proponent of the New New Deal, which would changes taxes to a 33% retail tax and Social Security into Personal Security, change Medicare and Medicaid into a voucher system based on need, and cut Federal spending by 20%.
	www.everything2.com /?node_id=1920385 (958 words)

	Niall Ferguson Pity of War Virtual History
		Ferguson argues mainly that the destruction of that war, which claimed the lives of some nine million men, could well have been avoided.
		He further argues that the proponents of sending an English army to France -- which was the trigger that made a wider war inevitable -- were a minority, and that it was only because of the lack of conviction of the rest of the cabinet ministers and party leaders that the fateful decision was made.
		Somewhat surprisingly, Ferguson argues that war with Germany was not even in England's economic interests, since a German overseas presence would only have worked to France's detriment, not Britain's.
	www.age-of-the-sage.org /history/historian/Niall_Ferguson.html (1298 words)

	Brad DeLong's Semi-Daily Journal: Niall Ferguson Sez: "But I Didn't Know Bush Was Incompetent!"
		And, well, we could have sent Niall Ferguson to Iraq as Viceroy and Niall would have walked the roads kissing babies and passing chocolate to older kiddies, and trailing a wake of freshly painted schools and hospitals and planting cacti to make the desert bloom.
		Ferguson, if he's to be taken seriously, is confessing to being unable to judge the competancy of an administration.
		As you know Niall Ferguson is the post-imperial pro-imperialist historian of the British empire and it comes as no surprise to me that he has become one of the most celebrated historians in the US as well as in Britain.
	delong.typepad.com /sdj/2006/09/niall_ferguson_.html (4068 words)

	The Harvard Crimson :: News :: Ferguson Readies for Harvard
		Niall Ferguson, the widely regarded economic historian, abandoned England last year for the country he believes to be the world’s top empire today, and is now leaving New York University (NYU) for Cambridge.
		Ferguson scoffs at the idea that he is politically controversial and, far from the common characterization of his views as intellectually conservative, insists that he is a traditional liberal.
		Ferguson says that English academia was not receptive to journalistic ventures and he felt compelled to incarnate his journalistic self under the pseudonyms of Alec Campbell and then Campbell Ferguson.
	www.thecrimson.com /printerfriendly.aspx?ref=502682 (1977 words)

	Only A Historical Ignoramus Could Be Surprised \| Just a Gwai Lo
		Niall Ferguson: “What happened in Iraq last week so closely resembles the events of 1920 that only a historical ignoramus could be surprised.
		Ferguson is arguing that looking to Vietnam for a comparison to today is flawed, and that, as in the above quote, Iraq in the 1920s provides an instructive case for the Americans in Iraq now.
		More links to Niall Ferguson-related material can be found by looking at the search results on this site for Niall Ferguson.
	www.justagwailo.com /filter/2004/04/10/ignoramus (190 words)

	Barnes & Noble.com - Books: Colossus, by Niall Ferguson, Hardcover
		Niall Ferguson is Herzog Professor of Financial History at the Stern Business School, New York University, and Senior Research Fellow at Jesus College, Oxford University.
		Ferguson is the flash Harry of contemporary history-writing, cavalier with the facts, crude in his views and contemptuous of most of the world’s peoples.
		Ferguson believes that it would be a good thing if the United States were to take over the imperial role once played by Great Britain-but he doubts that Americans have what it takes to be effective imperialists.
	search.barnesandnoble.com /Colossus/Niall-Ferguson/e/9781594200137 (4184 words)

	Robert Fulford's series about Niall Ferguson, Part 2
		Ferguson has to deal, at least obliquely, with a persistent strain of modern thought, the belief that the Industrial Revolution was a bad thing, that capitalism perverted human relations, and that a modern economy constitutes a conspiracy against the helpless.
		Ferguson would like us also to know that there is no correlation at all between the severity of the Depression and the rise of dictatorships.
		Ferguson does not want us to ignore economics in history, but he hopes to remind us that nothing in human relations is inevitable and we will know more about the past and the present when we approach them with a heightened sense of their infinite complexity.
	www.robertfulford.com /NiallFerguson2.html (1948 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Colossus: The Rise and Fall of The American Empire: Niall Ferguson: Books
		Ferguson, author of Empire: How Britain Made the Modern World, has no objection to an American empire, as long as it is a liberal one actively underwriting the free exchange of goods, labour and capital.
		Ferguson contrasts this persistent anti-imperialistic urge with the attitude held by the British Empire and suggests that America has much to learn from that model if it is to achieve its stated foreign policy objectives of spreading social freedom, democracy, development and the free market to the world.
		Ferguson's conclusions are particularly bleak, firstly that even a disinterested dominant state such as the US is better than none at all, but that America's own emerging fiscal nightmare will inevitably massively reduce its ability to project power.
	www.amazon.co.uk /Colossus-Rise-Fall-American-Empire/dp/0141017007 (2471 words)

	Live From The FDNF: Niall Ferguson's "War Of Words" (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Ferguson is already stirring up a tad bit of controversy (as he is prone to doing in a thought-provoking manner) with a rather irked letter to the Economist regarding their review of "The War Of The World".
		Ferguson also recently took part in an interesting roundtable discussion about America's role in the global economy at Newsweek.
		Ferguson is one of the few historians who can tackle complex economic history issues and translate them for a popular audience without dumbing things down or making it boring.
	fdnf.typepad.com /live_from_the_fdnf/2006/06/niall_ferguson.html (884 words)

	Colossus by Niall Ferguson: Reviews
		In Colossus, Niall Ferguson brings his renowned historical and economic depth of field to bear on a bold and sweeping reckoning with America's imperial status and its consequences.
		Ferguson recommits the essential blunder of the British Empire: He fails to consider whether the world's peoples want to join this new order, even if it is clear to him that they would benefit from it.
		Ferguson, a leading and sometimes controversial young British historian, argues counter-intuitively that the United States is most certainly an empire, and ought to take its imperial duties more seriously.
	www.metacritic.com /books/authors/fergusonniall/colossus (593 words)

	National Review Book Service: Colossus: The Price of America's Empire by Niall Ferguson
		But unlike others who have remarked on this development, Ferguson believes it is, on balance, a good thing -- that many parts of the world would benefit from a period of American rule.
		Ferguson shows how, on the rare occasions when American occupations have been sustained -- as in Germany and Japan after World War II -- the results have been spectacular.
		"Ferguson believes that it would be a good thing if the United States were to take over the imperial role once played by Great Britain -- but he doubts that Americans have what it takes to be effective imperialists.
	www.nrbookservice.com /bookpage.asp?prod_cd=c6480 (1083 words)

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