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Harvard Book Store Presents...
Penguin Press HC, The
Price: $35.00
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NIALL FERGUSON discusses The War of the World: Twentieth-Century Conflict and the Descent of the West
Harvard Book Store is pleased to announce that on Tuesday November 28th, historian Niall Ferguson will discuss his new book The War of the World: Twentieth-Century Conflict and the Descent of the West.
Declared Niall Ferguson's most important book to date, The War of the World is a revolutionary reinterpretation of the modern era that resolves its central paradox: why unprecedented progress coincided with unprecedented violence and why the seeming triumph of the West bore the seeds of its undoing.
From the conflicts that presaged the First World War to the aftershocks of the cold war, the twentieth century was by far the bloodiest in all of human history. How can we explain the astonishing scale and intensity of its violence when, thanks to the advances of science and economics, most people were better off than ever before-eating better, growing taller, and living longer? Wherever one looked, the world in 1900 offered the happy prospect of ever-greater interconnection. Why, then, did global progress descend into internecine war and genocide? Drawing on a pioneering combination of history, economics, and evolutionary theory, Niall Ferguson--one of Time magazine's "100 Most Influential People"--masterfully examines what he calls the age of hatred and sets out to explain what went wrong with modernity.
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617.661.1515
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Tuesday, November 28th |
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6:00 PM |
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Brattle Theatre
40 Brattle Street
Cambridge |
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Tickets are required for this event. Tickets cost $3 and can be purchased at the store or ordered over the phone with a credit card at 617.661.1515. |
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Niall Ferguson is Laurence A. Tisch Professor of History at
Harvard University, William Ziegler Professor of Business
Administration at Harvard Business School, a Senior Research Fellow of
Jesus College, Oxford, and a Senior Fellow of the Hoover Institution,
Stanford. The bestselling author of Paper and Iron, The House of Rothschild, The Pity of War, The Cash Nexus, Empire, Colossus, and The War of the World, he is also a contributing editor of the Financial Times. Since 2003 he has written and presented three highly successful television documentary series for British television: Empire, American Colossus, and, most recently, The War of the World. The Ascent of Money
is a PBS co-production scheduled to be broadcast in 2009. He and his
family divide their time between the United Kingdom and the United
States.
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