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Mentioning the work of Tisch Professor of History Niall C. Ferguson and Weatherhead University Professor Samuel P. Huntington, Hobsbawm drew clear distinctions between his owns views and their theories...
...that other students faced was the language change. “You almost feel that while living in that [foreign] culture, you become a part of the language,” said Mark Newton, another senior at Holy Cross. But some students struggled less with the adjustment—Niall T. Prendergast ’09, who spent a year in Germany, said he had no difficulty coming home. “I just started speaking English again immediately,” he said. Others said they simply had no time to adjust. Michalek went straight from her time abroad...
...financial instruments into a lively history of finance. Even more improbably, the book is gorgeous. You can see the crimson illumination on the Ligatio pecuniae and read the fine print on a futures contract from the Dutch West India Co. Each chapter is a minihistory written by stars like Niall Ferguson and Robert Shiller, who explain in rich prose the connections between Chinese pawnshops, Greek moneylenders and, ultimately, the cash in your pocket. --By Jyoti Thottam
Recent star-hire Niall Ferguson, a professor of history and author of the best-selling books, “Colossus,” “House of Rothschild,” and “Empire,” will teach his first courses at the College next spring, when he will offer both History 10b, “Western Economies, Societies, and Polities from 1648 to the Present” and, with Saltonstall Professor of History Charles S. Maier, History 1965, “International History: States, Markets, and the Global Economy: Conference Course...
...convinced his G-8 counterparts to forgive the debt of 18 of the world's poorest countries, a deal worth more than $40 billion. At the summit in Gleneagles he will try to win other concessions. But why should the world help Africa at all? The simple answer, says Niall FitzGerald, chairman of British news agency Reuters and a passionate backer of a new deal for Africa, is morality. "The rich world has brought its gifts to Africa: first exploitation and then indifference," he said at the World Economic Forum's Africa summit in Cape Town earlier this month. "There...