Neil Ferguson

Niall Ferguson, a Scottish British, is one of the most famous historians in the UK. He is Professor Lawrence A. Tisch of the History Department at Harvard University, Senior Researcher at Jesus College at Oxford University, and Senior Researcher at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University. He is an authority on the study of the Rothschild family history. He is one of the few experts who can span the bachelor's, financial, and media fields. In 2004, it was named one of the 100 people who have influenced the world by Time magazine. Neil has currently written a large number of television films, among which the rise of currency won the 2009 International Emmy Documentary Award. His work Civilization 2012 and top financiers have also been filmed as television documentaries. His first book, Paper and Tie, was nominated for the Historical Works Annual Award. In 1998, he published The Compassion of War, which received worldwide acclaim. In the same year, his other book, the Rothschild family, won the Wordsworth Award, the Wingate Literature Finalist Award, and the National Jewish Book Award in the United States. In 2001, he published Money Relations: Money and Power in the Modern World, 1700-2000. A year later, he became a researcher at the Hoover Institute. His other works include Virtual History 1997, the rise and fall of the British Empire, the lessons of world order and global power 2003, the rise and weakening of the giant America in 2004, and the conflict of the 20th century and the decline of Western power in 2006.