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• 03 Oct 06
  

  Clay Burell

  asia europe history worldhistory

• 26 Jun 06
  

  Keith Fortowsky

  PolarOps

  • Twentieth-century empires were “exceptional in their capacity for dealing out death and destruction” because of “unprecedented degrees of centralised power, economic control and social homogeneity to which they aspired”. Indeed, they inherited from the 19th-century nation builders “an insatiable appetite for uniformity
• 24 Jun 06
  

  moosbruxxer

  Articles

  • A century of slaughter
    From the trenches to the Holocaust and Rwanda, Niall Ferguson has sought challenging new explanations for world conflict, Allan Mallinson says
    The War of the World
    by Niall Ferguson
    Allen Lane, £25; 816pp
    
    “HISTORIANS ALWAYS YEARN for closure, a date when their narratives can end,” says Niall Ferguson in the introduction to his latest heavyweight work of narrative and analytical history, an examination of why the 20th century was the bloodiest yet.
  • A century of slaughter
    From the trenches to the Holocaust and Rwanda, Niall Ferguson has sought challenging new explanations for world conflict, Allan Mallinson says
    The War of the World
    by Niall Ferguson
    Allen Lane, £25; 816pp
    
    “HISTORIANS ALWAYS YEARN for closure, a date when their narratives can end,” says Niall Ferguson in the introduction to his latest heavyweight work of narrative and analytical history, an examination of why the 20th century was the bloodiest yet.
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  • • A century of slaughter
      From the trenches to the Holocaust and Rwanda, Niall Ferguson has sought challenging new explanations for world conflict, Allan Mallinson says
      The War of the World
      by Niall Ferguson
      Allen Lane, £25; 816pp
      
      “HISTORIANS ALWAYS YEARN for closure, a date when their narratives can end,” says Niall Ferguson in the introduction to his latest heavyweight work of narrative and analytical history, an examination of why the 20th century was the bloodiest yet.
    • A century of slaughter
      From the trenches to the Holocaust and Rwanda, Niall Ferguson has sought challenging new explanations for world conflict, Allan Mallinson says
      The War of the World
      by Niall Ferguson
      Allen Lane, £25; 816pp
      
      “HISTORIANS ALWAYS YEARN for closure, a date when their narratives can end,” says Niall Ferguson in the introduction to his latest heavyweight work of narrative and analytical history, an examination of why the 20th century was the bloodiest yet.
    • A century of slaughter
      From the trenches to the Holocaust and Rwanda, Niall Ferguson has sought challenging new explanations for world conflict, Allan Mallinson says
      The War of the World
      by Niall Ferguson
      Allen Lane, £25; 816pp
      
      “HISTORIANS ALWAYS YEARN for closure, a date when their narratives can end,” says Niall Ferguson in the introduction to his latest heavyweight work of narrative and analytical history, an examination of why the 20th century was the bloodiest yet.
    • A century of slaughter
      From the trenches to the Holocaust and Rwanda, Niall Ferguson has sought challenging new explanations for world conflict, Allan Mallinson says
      The War of the World
      by Niall Ferguson
      Allen Lane, £25; 816pp
      
      “HISTORIANS ALWAYS YEARN for closure, a date when their narratives can end,” says Niall Ferguson in the introduction to his latest heavyweight work of narrative and analytical history, an examination of why the 20th century was the bloodiest yet.

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  Clay Burell on 2006-10-03
  Niall Ferguson's new book on the causes of 20th century slaughter--and a projection that Asia is the 21st century's hegemon.

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