Civilization

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 *

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.

This item is eligible for free returns within 30 days of delivery. See our returns policy for further details.