Civilization: The West and the Rest

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 [Praise for The Ascent of Money]
Beautifully written... Breathtakingly clever -- Martin Van Weyer Sunday
Telegraph [Praise for The Ascent of Money] The tales he tells of boom
and bust, of triumph and disaster, of bubbles that inflate... are the
very essence of financial history -- Bill Emmott Financial Times
[Praise for The Ascent of Money] An often enlightening and enjoyable
tour through the underside of great events, a lesson in how the most
successful great powers have always been underpinned by smart money