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Empire by Niall Ferguson 9780465023295
Booksplease Price: £14.62The British Empire was the largest in all history: the nearest thing to world domination ever achieved. By the eve of World War II, around a quarter of the world's land surface was under some form of... -
The Pity of War by Niall Ferguson
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £14.54The First World War killed around eight million men and bled Europe dry. In this provocative book Niall Ferguson asks: was the sacrifice worth it? Was it all really an inevitable cataclysm and were... -
The End of the Liberal Order? by Niall Ferguson
RRP: £6.99Booksplease Price: £5.26Is it time to reaffirm our liberal values? Or are we seeing the birth-pangs of a new era? Two great thinkers debate the question burning behind headlines across the world. 'No civilization, no... -
Civilization: The West and the Rest by Niall Ferguson
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.78Winner of the Estoril Global Issues Distinguished Book Prize 2013In 1412, Europe was a miserable backwater ravaged by plague, bad sanitation and incessant war, while the Orient was home to dazzling... -
Doom: The Politics of Catastrophe by Niall Ferguson
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.78'Magisterial ... Immensely readable' Douglas Alexander, Financial Times'Insightful, productively provocative and downright brilliant' New York Times A compelling history of catastrophes and their... -
Kissinger: 1923-1968: The Idealist by Niall Ferguson
Booksplease Price: £13.44Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143109754Author Niall FergusonFormat PaperbackPage Count 1008Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin... -
Civilization: The West and the Rest by Niall Ferguson 9780143122067
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £13.34Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143122067Author Niall FergusonFormat PaperbackPage Count 464Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin... -
The Shock of the Global: The 1970s in Perspective by Niall Ferguson
RRP: £26.95Booksplease Price: £23.43From the vantage point of the United States or Western Europe, the 1970s was a time of troubles: economic "stagflation," political scandal, and global turmoil. Yet from an international perspective... -
Doom: The Politics of Catastrophe by Niall Ferguson 9780593297391
Booksplease Price: £9.32Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593297391Author Niall FergusonFormat PaperbackPage Count 512Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin... -
Virtual History: Alternatives and Counterfactuals by Niall Ferguson
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £12.30Edited by Niall Ferguson, Virtual History applies 'counterfactual' arguments to decisive moments in modern history.What if Britain had stayed out of the First World War?What if Germany had invaded... -
The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World by Niall Ferguson
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.78Bread, cash, dosh, dough, loot. Call if what you like, it matters now more than ever. In The Ascent of Money, Niall Ferguson shows that financial history is the back-story to all history.From the... -
Colossus: The Rise and Fall of the American Empire by Niall Ferguson
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.42Is America the new world empire? Presidents from Lincoln to Bush may have denied it but, as Niall Ferguson's brilliant and provocative book shows, the US is in many ways the greatest imperial power... -
The War of the World: History's Age of Hatred by Niall Ferguson
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £14.75The 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... -
Kissinger: 1923-1968: The Idealist by Niall Ferguson 9780141022000
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £14.75'Riveting ... this will be his masterpiece' - Andrew Roberts, The New York Times'For big, bold and compelling, it is impossible to ignore Kissinger' - John Bew, New Statesman, Books of the Year 'This... -
Empire: How Britain Made the Modern World by Niall Ferguson
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.78Niall Ferguson's acclaimed bestseller on the highs and lows of Britain's empireOnce vast swathes of the globe were coloured imperial red and Britannia ruled not just the waves, but the prairies of... -
The War on Science: Renowned Scientists and Scholars Speak Out About Current Threats to Free Speech, Open Inquiry, and the Scientific Process Lawrence Krauss 9781800756182
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £14.38An unparalleled group of prominent scholars from wide-ranging disciplines detail ongoing efforts to impose ideological restrictions on science and scholarship throughout western society. From... -
The House of Rothschild: The World's Banker 1849-1998 by Niall Ferguson
RRP: £22.00Booksplease Price: £17.14This second volume of Niall Ferguson's acclaimed, landmark history of the legendary Rothschild banking dynasty concludes his myth-breaking portrait of one of the most powerful and fascinating... -
The House of Rothschild: Money's Prophets 1798-1848 by Niall Ferguson
RRP: £22.00Booksplease Price: £16.62In his rich and nuanced portrait of the remarkable, elusive Rothschild family, Oxford scholar and bestselling author Niall Ferguson uncovers the secrets behind the family's phenomenal economic... -
Colossus: The Rise and Fall of the American Empire by Niall Ferguson 9780143034797
RRP: £24.00Booksplease Price: £18.03Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143034797Author Niall FergusonFormat PaperbackPage Count 386Imprint The Penguin PressPublisher... -
High Financier: The Lives and Time of Siegmund Warburg by Niall Ferguson
RRP: £22.00Booksplease Price: £16.62This is the extraordinary story of Siegmund Warburg: the refugee from Nazi Germany who restored the Blitz-shattered City of London as the world's preeminent international financial centre. In... -
The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World by Niall Ferguson 9780143116172
Booksplease Price: £13.10Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143116172Author Niall FergusonFormat PaperbackPage Count 496Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin... -
The Square and the Tower: Networks and Power, from the Freemasons to Facebook by Niall Ferguson
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £12.24Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780735222939Author Niall FergusonFormat PaperbackPage Count 608Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin... -
The Square and the Tower: Networks, Hierarchies and the Struggle for Global Power by Niall Ferguson
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.97THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER'Silicon Valley needed a history lesson and Ferguson has provided it' Eric SchmidtMost history is about the people at the top of the towers of power. But what if the... -
High Financier: The Lives and Time of Siegmund Warburg by Niall Ferguson 9780143119401
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £23.06Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143119401Author Niall FergusonFormat PaperbackPage Count 592Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin... -
The Great Degeneration: How Institutions Decay and Economies Die by Niall Ferguson
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.42The decline of the West is something that has long been prophesied. Symptoms of decline are all around us today: slowing growth, crushing debts, ageing populations. But what exactly is amiss with... -
The Cash Nexus: Money and Politics in Modern History, 1700-2000 by Niall Ferguson
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £13.35Modern history shows that a nation's success largely depends on the way it manages its money. But where do money and politics meet? From 1700 to the present day, Niall Ferguson offers a bold and... -
Eamon de Valera: A Will to Power Ronan Fanning 9780571312061
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23Eamon de Valera is the most remarkable man in the history of modern Ireland. Much as Churchill personified British resistance to Hitler and de Gaulle personified the freedom of France, de Valera... -
The Arsenal of Democracy: Technology, Industry, and Deterrence in an Age of Hard Choices by Niall Ferguson 9780817926854
RRP: £33.95Booksplease Price: £23.77Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780817926854Author Niall FergusonFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint Hoover Institution... -
The Great Imperial Hangover: How Empires Have Shaped the World by Samir Puri
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23'An exceptional account.' Prospect'Enlightening.' SpectatorFor the first time in millennia we live without formal empires. But that doesn't mean we don't feel their presence rumbling through history... -
The Arbroath and Forfar Railway: The Dundee Direct Line and the Kirriemuir Branch by Niall Ferguson 9780853615453
Booksplease Price: £14.52Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780853615453Author Niall FergusonFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint The Oakwood PressPublisher... -
Paper and Iron: Hamburg Business and German Politics in the Era of Inflation, 1897-1927 by Niall Ferguson
RRP: £49.00Booksplease Price: £45.71Few economic events have had a more profound or enduring impact than the German hyperinflation of 1923, still remembered popularly as a root cause of Hitler's rise to power. Yet many historians have... -
Victorious Century: The United Kingdom, 1800-1906 by Mr David Cannadine
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £14.54SHORTLISTED FOR THE DUFF COOPER PRIZE 2018 'This is stupendous. The British nineteenth century, in all its complexity, all its horror, all its energy, all its hopes is laid bare. This is the... -
Beneath Another Sky: A Global Journey into History by Norman Davies
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £14.54Human history is a tale not just of constant change, but of perpetual restlessness. In Beneath Another Sky the esteemed historian Norman Davies embarks upon a journey round the world to show the... -
Paper and Iron: Hamburg Business and German Politics in the Era of Inflation, 1897-1927 by Niall Ferguson 9780521470162
RRP: £130.00Booksplease Price: £119.88Few economic events have had a more profound or enduring impact than the German hyperinflation of 1923, still remembered popularly as a root cause of Hitler's rise to power. Yet many historians have... -
Inglorious Empire: What the British Did to India by Shashi Tharoor 9780141987149
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.42The Sunday Times Top 10 bestseller on India's experience of British colonialism, by the internationally-acclaimed author and diplomat Shashi Tharoor'Tharoor's impassioned polemic slices straight to ... -
Heaven's Command by Jan Morris
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.31Jan Morris tells the epic story of the rise of the British Empire, from the accession of Queen Victoria in 1837 to her Diamond Jubilee in 1897. In this celebrated masterwork she vividly evokes every... -
Empires in the Sun: The Struggle for the Mastery of Africa Lawrence James 9781780226187
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.50In this compelling history of the men and ideas that radically changed the course of world history, Lawrence James investigates how, within a hundred years, Europeans persuaded and coerced Africa... -
War: What is it good for?: The role of conflict in civilisation, from primates to robots by Ian Morris
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.41War is one of the greatest human evils. It has ruined livelihoods, provoked unspeakable atrocities and left countless millions dead. It has caused economic chaos and widespread deprivation. And the... -
SuperHubs: How the Financial Elite and Their Networks Rule our World Sandra Navidi 9781473669949
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.42A BLOOMBERG BEST BOOK OF THE YEARWINNER - SILVER MEDAL, AXIOM BUSINESS BOOK AWARDS 2018FOREWORD BY NOURIEL ROUBINISuperHubs is a rare, behind-the-scenes look at the global financial system and the... -
On Royalty by Jeremy Paxman
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.42In On Royalty Jeremy Paxman delves deep into Britain's royal past. What is the point of Kings and Queens? What do they do all day? And what does it mean to be one of them?Jeremy Paxman is used to...