Citations

“The First World War was at once piteous, in the poet's sense, and 'a pity'. It was something worse than a tragedy, which is ultimately something we are taught by the theatre to regard as unavoidable. It was nothing less than the greatest error of modern history.”
1998-2004En anglais
“The empire had begun with the stealing of gold; it progressed with the cultivation of sugar.”
Empire: How Britain Made the Modern World, Chapter 1En anglais
“Reality did not take long to intrude.”
Empire: How Britain Made the Modern World, Chapter 3En anglais
“The West may collapse very suddenly. Complex civilizations do that, because they operate, most of the time, on the edge of chaos.”
2010-2011En anglais
“The whole point about historians is that we are really communing with the dead. It's very restful – because you read. There's some sociopathic problem that makes me prefer it to human interaction.”
2010-2011En anglais

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Les livres de Niall Ferguson dans l'ordre

Les livres de Niall Ferguson dans l'ordre de parution, de Paper and Iron (1995) à Doom (2021).