Niall Ferguson

Niall Campbell Ferguson (; lahir 18 April 1964) adalah sejarawan Britania Raya kelahiran Skotlandia. Ia adalah Dosen Sejarah Laurence A. Tisch di Universitas Harvard. Ia juga menjabat sebagai Anggota Peneliti Senior di Jesus College, Universitas Oxford, Anggota Senior Hoover Institution, Universitas Stanford, dan dosen tamu di New College of the Humanities. Ia memiliki keahlian di bidang sejarah internasional, sejarah ekonomi dan keuangan, dan imperialisme Britania dan Amerika. Ia dikenal atas pandangan-pandangannya yang provokatif dan kontrarian.

Buku-buku karya Ferguson meliputi Empire: How Britain Made the Modern World, The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World, dan Civilization: The West and the Rest; semuanya sudah diangkat menjadi seri televisi di Channel 4.

Pada tahun 2004, ia masuk dalam daftar 100 tokoh paling berpengaruh di dunia versi majalah Time. Per 2011, ia merupakan penyunting kontributor untuk Bloomberg Television dan kolumnis Newsweek.

Ferguson merupakan penasihat kampanye presiden A.S. John McCain tahun 2008 dan pendukung Mitt Romney pada kampanye tahun 2012. Ia sudah lama mengkritik kebijakan Barack Obama.

Karya

Publikasi 

 
 
 
 
 
  American ed. has the title: The war of the World: Twentieth-century Conflict and the Descent of the West  (also a Channel 4 series)
 
 
 
  American edition.

Kontributor 
 "Let Germany Keep Its Nerve", The Spectator, 22 April 1995, pages 21–23
 “Europa nervosa”, in Nader Mousavizadeh (ed.), The Black Book of Bosnia (New Republic/Basic Books, 1996), pp. 127–32
 “The German inter-war economy: Political choice versus economic determinism” in Mary Fulbrook (ed.), German History since 1800 (Arnold, 1997), pp. 258–278
 “The balance of payments question: Versailles and after” in Manfred F. Boemeke, Gerald D. Feldman and Elisabeth Glaser (eds.), The Treaty of Versailles: A Reassessment after 75 Years (Cambridge University Press, 1998), pp. 401–440
 “‘The Caucasian Royal Family’: The Rothschilds in national contexts” in R. Liedtke (ed.), ‘Two Nations’: The Historical Experience of British and German Jews in Comparison (J.C.B. Mohr, 1999)
 “Academics and the Press”, in Stephen Glover (ed.), Secrets of the Press: Journalists on Journalism (Penguin, 1999), pp. 206–220
 “Metternich and the Rothschilds: A reappraisal” in Andrea Hamel and Edward Timms (eds.), Progress and Emancipation in the Age of Metternich: Jews and Modernisation in Austria and Germany, 1815–1848 (Edwin Mellen Press, 1999), pp. 295–325
 “The European economy, 1815–1914” in T.C.W. Blanning (ed.), The Short Oxford History of Europe: The Nineteenth Century (Oxford University Press, 2000), pp. 78–125
 “How (not) to pay for the war: Traditional finance and total war” in Roger Chickering and Stig Förster (eds.), Great War, Total War: Combat and Mobilization on the Western Front (Cambridge University Press, 2000), pp. 409–34
 “Introduction” in Frederic Manning, Middle Parts of Fortune (Penguin, 2000), pp. vii–xviii
 “Clashing civilizations or mad mullahs: The United States between informal and formal empire” in Strobe Talbott (ed.), The Age of Terror (Basic Books, 2001), pp. 113–41
 “Public debt as a post-war problem: The German experience after 1918 in comparative perspective” in Mark Roseman (ed.), Three Post-War Eras in Comparison: Western Europe 1918-1945-1989 (Palgrave-Macmillan, 2002), pp. 99–119
 “Das Haus Sachsen-Coburg und die europäische Politik des 19. Jahrhunderts”, in Rainer von Hessen (ed.), Victoria Kaiserin Friedrich (1840–1901): Mission und Schicksal einer englischen Prinzessin in Deutschland (Campus Verlag, 2002), pp. 27–39
 “Max Warburg and German politics: The limits of financial power in Wilhelmine Germany”, in Geoff Eley and James Retallack (eds.), Wilhelminism and Its Legacies: German Modernities, Imperialism and the Meaning of Reform, 1890–1930 (Berghahn Books, 2003), pp. 185–201
 “Introduction”, The Death of the Past by J. H. Plumb (Palgrave Macmillan, 2003), pp. xxi–xlii
 “Globalization in historical perspective: The political dimension”, in Michael D. Bordo, Alan M. Taylor and Jeffrey G. Williamson (eds.), Globalisation in Historical Perspective (National Bureau of Economic Research Conference Report) (University of Chicago Press, 2003)
 “Introduction to Tzvetan Todorov” in Nicholas Owen (ed.), Human Rights, Human Wrongs: Oxford Amnesty Lectures (Amnesty International, 2003)
 “The City of London and British imperialism: New light on an old question”, in Youssef Cassis and Eric Bussière (eds.), London and Paris as International Financial Centres in the Twentieth Century (Oxford University Press, 2004), pp. 57–77
 “A bolt from the blue? The City of London and the outbreak of the First World War”, in Wm. Roger Louis (ed.), Yet More Adventures with Britainnia: Personalities, Politics and Culture in Britain (I.B. Tauris, 2005), pp. 133–145
 “The first ‘Eurobonds’: The Rothschilds and the financing of the Holy Alliance, 1818–1822”, in William N. Goetzmann and K. Geert Rouwenhorst (eds.), The Origins of Value: The Financial Innovations that Created Modern Capital Markets (Oxford University Press, 2005), pp. 311–323
 “Prisoner taking and prisoner killing in the age of total war”, in George Kassemiris (ed.), The Barbarization of Warfare (New York University Press, 2006), pp. 126–158
 “The Second World War as an economic disaster”, in Michael Oliver (ed.), Economic Disasters of the Twentieth Century (Edward Elgar, 2007), pp. 83–132
 “The Problem of Conjecture: American Strategy after the Bush Doctrine”, in Melvyn Leffler and Jeff Legro (eds.), To Lead the World: American Strategy After the Bush Doctrine (Oxford University Press, 2008)

Dokumenter televisi 
 Empire (2003)
 American Colossus (2004)
 The War of the World (2006)
 The Ascent of Money (2008)
 Civilization: Is the West History? (2011)
 China: Triumph and Turmoil (2012)

Lihat pula 
 Anglosfer
 Chimerica
 Timbunan tabungan global

Referensi

Catatan kaki

Referensi umum 
 
 
 "The Ascent of Money" , Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce
 "Audio: Niall Ferguson in conversation", The Forum, BBC World Service
 Hans Koning, "Still Not Over Over There?" , The Nation, August 1999 – Review of The Pity of War
 Martin Rubin, "A Banker to the Rescue", WSJ.com, 26 June 2010
 Liaquat Ahamed, "Yesterday's Banker", NYTimes.com, 30 July 2010
 "The Sun Sets in the West", Oxonian Review, 4 April 2011 – Review of Civilization
 "An Interview with Niall Ferguson", Oxonian Review, 9 April 2011
 "Niall Ferguson and the brain-dead American right", 24 May 2011

Pranala luar 

 
 Facebook Fan Page of Niall Ferguson
 
 
 
 

Kelahiran 1964
Sejarawan Britania Raya
Penulis kebijakan luar negeri Britania Raya
Dosen Harvard Business School
Dosen Universitas Harvard
Dosen Universitas New York
Tokoh dari Glasgow
Ateis Skotlandia
Sejarawan Skotlandia
Sejarawan Perang Dunia I
Sejarawan Imperium Britania
Teoriwan peradaban Barat
Sejarawan ekonomi