by Niall Ferguson · Allen Lane · tapa dura · ISBN 9780713997088
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«The War of the World: History's Age of Hatred» is the historical essay by Niall Ferguson, published by Allen Lane in hardback (816 pages, in English).
The essay explores why, despite the economic and technological progress of the early twentieth century, the world fell into total wars, ethnic cleansing and genocidal violence. Ferguson ranges from the Siberian steppes to the beaches of Okinawa, combining history, economics and evolutionary theory to explain the collapse of Western dominance and the age of hatred.
A historical work focused on the twentieth century and military conflicts. Published in 2006, it includes bibliographical references (pp. 655-702) and an index.
For readers interested in contemporary history, world wars and the causes of political violence.
Sir Niall Campbell Ferguson is a British and American historian who is the Milbank Family Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution and a senior fellow at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard University. Previously, he was a professor at Harvard University, the London School of Economics, New York University, a visiting professor at the New College of the Humanities, and a senior research fellow at Jesus College, Oxford. He was a visiting lecturer at the London School of Economics for the 2023/2024 academic year and at Tsinghua University in China from 2019 to 2020.
