尼尔·弗格森

**尼爾・坎貝爾・道格拉斯・佛格森**（英語：Niall Campbell Douglas Ferguson；1964 年 4 月 18 日 —）是位大不列顛國籍的歷史學者，現任職為哈佛大學的提胥講座教授、牛津大學耶穌學院等大學機構的資深研究員。他的專長是與世界史、經濟史、惡性通貨膨脹、基金市場、美國暨英國的帝國主義等的相關研究。

佛格森的著作包括《帝國：大英世界秩序興衰以及給世界強權的啟示》、《貨幣崛起：金融資本如何改變世界歷史及其未來之路》與《文明：決定人類走向的六大殺手級 Apps》均已製作成電視專題影集。

2004 年，他登上《時代雜誌》的世界前 100 大具影響力的人物。

## 早年

佛格森 1964 年 4 月 18 日生於蘇格蘭格拉斯哥。父親是醫生，母親是物理教師。他後來就學於格拉斯哥學校，在無神論的學習環境下成長；儘管認為基督教道德對於社會有很大的幫助，並鼓勵孩童需要上教堂，但至今他仍保持著無神論者的觀點。

佛格森曾提及自他幼年起，他的醫生父親就開始培養他具有高度的自律意識和敬業的態度，他身任物理教師的母親負責培養他的創意性；他曾任新聞記者的外婆則鼓勵他寫作。佛格森在大學時代，一度無法從英國文學和歷史學擇一做為主修學系，後來是由於閱讀了名著《戰爭與和平》而選擇了歷史學。

## 參考文獻

### 出版作品

* Ferguson, Niall. The Square and the Tower:Networks, Hierarchies and the Struggle for Global Power. The Penguin Press. 2017.
* Ferguson, Niall. Henry Kissinger: A Life. Allen Lane. 2014.
* Ferguson, Niall. The Great Degeneration. Penguin Books. 2013.
* Ferguson, Niall. Civilization: The West and the Rest. The Penguin Press HC. 2011. ISBN 978-1-59420-305-3.
* Ferguson, Niall. High Financier: The Lives And Times Of Siegmund Warburg. New York: Penguin. 2010. ISBN 978-1-59420-246-9.
* Ferguson, Niall. The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World. London: Allen Lane. 2008. ISBN 978-1-84614-106-5.
* Ferguson, Niall. The War of the World: History's Age of Hatred. London: Allen Lane. 2006. ISBN 0-7139-9708-7.
* Ferguson, Niall. Empire: The Rise and Demise of the British World Order and the Lessons for Global Power. New York: Basic Books. 2003. ISBN 0-465-02328-2.
* Ferguson, Niall. 1914. Pocket Penguins 70s S. London, England: Penguin Books Ltd. 2005. ISBN 0-14-102220-5.
* Ferguson, Niall. Colossus: The Rise And Fall Of The American Empire. Gardners Books. 2004. ISBN 0-7139-9770-2.
* Ferguson, Niall. Empire: How Britain Made the Modern World. London: Allen Lane. 2003. ISBN 0-7139-9615-3.
* Ferguson, Niall. The Cash Nexus: Money and Power in the Modern World, 1700–2000. London: Allen Lane. 2001. ISBN 0-7139-9465-7.
* Ferguson, Niall. Virtual History: Alternatives and Counterfactuals. New York: Basic Books. 1999 [1997]. ISBN 0-465-02322-3.
* Ferguson, Niall. The Pity of War. New York: Basic Books. 1999 [1998]. ISBN 0-465-05711-X.
* Ferguson, Niall. The House of Rothschild: The World's Banker, 1849–1999. New York, N.Y.: Viking Press. 1999. ISBN 0-670-88794-3.
* Ferguson, Niall. The World's Banker: The History of the House of Rothschild. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson. 1998. ISBN 0-297-81539-3.
* Ferguson, Niall. The House of Rothschild. New York: Viking. 1998. ISBN 0-670-85768-8.
* Ferguson, Niall. Paper and Iron: Hamburg Business and German Politics in the Era of Inflation, 1897–1927. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. 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.), _‘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)

### 電視紀錄片

* _Empire_ 《帝國》（2003 年）
* _American Colossus_ 《美國競技場》（2004 年）
* _The War of the World_ 《世界大戰》（2006 年）
* _The Ascent of Money_ 《貨幣崛起》（2008 年）
* _Civilization: Is the West History?_ 《文明》（2011 年）
* _China: Triumph and Turmoil_ 《中國的崛起與動盪》（2012 年）
* _The Pity of War_ （2014 年）

## 參考來源

### 註釋

### 其他參考

* Snowman, Daniel. Niall Ferguson. History Today. October 2004, **54** (10): 37–39 [14 July 2008]. （原始內容存檔於 2010-03-03）.
* Ferguson, Niall. The Pity of War. New York: Basic Books. 1999. ISBN 978-0-14-027523-0.

## 外部連結

* 官方網站
* Facebook Fan Page of Niall Ferguson （頁面存檔備份，存於網際網路檔案館）
* C-SPAN 內的亮相頁面（英文）
* 尼爾・佛格森在網際網路電影資料庫（IMDb）上的資料（英文）
* The Ascent of Money Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce
* Audio: Niall Ferguson in conversation （頁面存檔備份，存於網際網路檔案館） _The Forum_, BBC World Service
* Hans Koning Still Not Over Over There? （頁面存檔備份，存於網際網路檔案館） The Nation, August 1999 – Review of _The Pity of War_
* Martin Rubin A Banker to the Rescue （頁面存檔備份，存於網際網路檔案館） WSJ.com, 26 June 2010
* Liaquat Ahamed Yesterday's Banker （頁面存檔備份，存於網際網路檔案館） NYTimes.com, 30 July 2010
* The Sun Sets in the West （頁面存檔備份，存於網際網路檔案館） Oxonian Review, 4 April 2011 – Review of _Civilization_
* An Interview with Niall Ferguson （頁面存檔備份，存於網際網路檔案館）, _Oxonian Review_, 9 April 2011
* Niall Ferguson and the brain-dead American right （頁面存檔備份，存於網際網路檔案館）, May 24, 2011