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The War of the World : History's Age of Hatred
Niall Ferguson
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Description for The War of the World : History's Age of Hatred
Paperback. At the beginning of the twentieth century, globalizing, booming economies married to technological breakthroughs seemed to promise a better world for most people. In this title, the author reveals how economic boom-and-bust, decaying empires and - above all - poisonous ideas of race led men to treat each other as aliens. Num Pages: 816 pages, Illustrations(some col.)., maps, ports. BIC Classification: HBG; HBLW; HBW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 128 x 38. Weight in Grams: 588.
The beginning of the twentieth century saw human civilization at its most enlightened, well-educated, globalized and wealthy. What turned it into a bloodbath?
Niall Ferguson re-tells the story of history's most savage century as a continual war that raged for 100 years. From the plains of Poland to the killing fields of Cambodia, he reveals how economic boom-and-bust, decaying empires and, above all, poisonous ideas of race led men to treat each other as aliens. It was an age of hatred that ended with the twilight, not the triumph, of the ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Penguin Group(CA)
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Condition
New
Number of Pages
816
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780141013824
SKU
V9780141013824
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About Niall Ferguson
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 ... Read more
Reviews for The War of the World : History's Age of Hatred
A heartbreaking, serious and thoughtful survey of human evil that is utterly fascinating and dramatic
Simon Sebag Montefiore
The New York Times
Unputdownable, controversial, compelling
Independent on Sunday
The grenade lobbed into the cosy tea party of received wisdom
Max Hastings A big, bold and brilliantly belligerent book
Sunday Telegraph
History at ... Read more
Simon Sebag Montefiore
The New York Times
Unputdownable, controversial, compelling
Independent on Sunday
The grenade lobbed into the cosy tea party of received wisdom
Max Hastings A big, bold and brilliantly belligerent book
Sunday Telegraph
History at ... Read more