Word: fergusonism
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...recent history conference entitled “Empire and Imperial Control in Comparative Historical Perspective,” Niall Ferguson, who will join Harvard’s history department in July, made a number of points. In his keynote address he reiterated his most recent thesis: the United States is an empire in denial, and this denial is at the root of its failures. In the plenary session, he took his argument further: Empire “delivers the goods”—economic growth rests on the kinds of institutions that empire makes possible. Ferguson?...
...professor Niall Ferguson, currently at New York University, and four other historians analyzed U.S. foreign policy at the fourth annual Harvard graduate student conference on international history, held last Friday and Saturday at the Center for European Studies...
...addition to Ferguson, the historians on the panel were Gardiner Professor of Oceanic History and Affairs and Director of Graduate Studies Sugata Bose, Northwestern University history professor Mark Bradley and London School of Economics professor Dominic Lieven. Warren Professor of American History Ernest R. May moderated...
Looking back at the notion of “empire,” the historians argued that empire is damaging to the native populations of colonies. But Ferguson, author of the forthcoming Colossus: The Rise and Fall of the American Empire, said the overall effect of the British empire was positive...
...Ferguson said the jury is out on whether or not the empire will have as positive an effect as the British...