【尼尔·弗格森】
尼尔·坎贝尔·道格拉斯·弗格森（Niall Campbell Douglas Ferguson；catIdx=Ferguson, Niall）是位大不列颠国籍的历史学者，现任职为哈佛大学的提胥讲座教授、牛津大学耶稣学院等大学机构的资深研究员。他的专长是与世界史、经济史、恶性通货膨胀、基金市场、美国暨英国的帝国主义等的相关研究。
弗格森的著作包括《帝国：大英世界秩序兴衰以及给世界强权的启示》、《货币崛起：金融资本如何改变世界历史及其未来之路》与《文明：决定人类走向的六大杀手级Apps》均已制作成电视专题影集。
2004年，他登上《时代杂志》的世界前100大具影响力的人物。
==早年==
弗格森1964年4月18日生于苏格兰格拉斯哥。父亲是医生，母亲是物理教师。他后来就学于格拉斯哥学校，在无神论的学习环境下成长；尽管认为基督教道德对于社会有很大的帮助，并鼓励孩童需要上教堂，但至今他仍保持著无神论者的观点。
弗格森曾提及自他幼年起，他的医生父亲就开始培养他具有高度的自律意识和敬业的态度，他身任物理教师的母亲负责培养他的创意性；他曾任新闻记者的外婆则鼓励他写作。弗格森在大学时代，一度无法从英国文学和历史学择一做为主修学系，后来是由于阅读了名著《战争与和平》而选择了历史学。
==参考文献==
===出版作品===
* Cite book|last=Ferguson |first=Niall |title=The Square and the Tower:Networks, Hierarchies and the Struggle for Global Power|publisher=The Penguin Press |year=2017
* Cite book|last=Ferguson |first=Niall |title=Henry Kissinger: A Life |publisher=Allen Lane |year=2014
* Cite book|last=Ferguson |first=Niall |title=The Great Degeneration |publisher=Penguin Books|year=2013
* isbn=978-1-59420-246-9
* Cite book|last=Ferguson |first=Niall |title=The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World
isbn=978-1-84614-106-5
* isbn=0-7139-9708-7
* Cite book|last=Ferguson |first=Niall |title=Empire: The Rise and Demise of the British World Order and the Lessons for Global Power |url=https://archive.org/details/empire00nial |publisher=Basic Books |location=New York |year=2003 |isbn=0-465-02328-2
* isbn=0-14-102220-5
* Cite book|last=Ferguson |first=Niall |title=Colossus: The Rise And Fall Of The American Empire |publisher=Gardners Books|year=2004 |isbn=0-7139-9770-2
* isbn=0-7139-9615-3
* isbn=0-7139-9465-7
* isbn=0-465-02322-3
* isbn=0-465-05711-X
* Cite book|last=Ferguson |first=Niall |title=The House of Rothschild: The World's Banker, 1849–1999 |url=https://archive.org/details/houseofrothschil00ferg |publisher=Viking Press|location=New York, N.Y. |year=1999 |isbn=0-670-88794-3
* Cite book|last=Ferguson |first=Niall |title=The World's Banker: The History of the House of Rothschild |publisher=Weidenfeld & Nicolson |location=London |year=1998 |isbn=0-297-81539-3 |oclc= |doi= |accessdate=
* isbn=0-670-85768-8
* Cite book|last=Ferguson |first=Niall |title=Paper and Iron: Hamburg Business and German Politics in the Era of Inflation, 1897–1927 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |location=Cambridge, UK |year=1995 |isbn=0-521-47016-1
===共同著作===
* "Let Germany Keep Its Nerve", The Spectator, April 22, 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.), : 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)
===电视纪录片===
* Empire 《帝国》（2003年）
* American Colossus 《美国竞技场》（2004年）
* The War of the World 《世界大战》（2006年）
* The Ascent of Money 《货币崛起》（2008年）
* Civilization: Is the West History?  《文明》（2011年）
* China: Triumph and Turmoil 《中国的崛起与动荡》（2012年）
* The Pity of War （2014年）
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