Conversations with History: Niall Ferguson

Niall Ferguson rocks. He is exceptionally brilliant and a one hot guy too!:-)

Too bad someone as distinguished as he is can't spell "Ottawa" in his book.

It could be a misprint.

i would imagine..but its in the index as well..im further peeved cuz in one of the charts he lists the entire British Commonwealth, Australia, India, and so on..but then lumps Canada in with "other"..we are ONLY the biggest country IN the BC, and made the biggest per capita contribution to the wars.

the weasel!

;)

I'm surprised no one has mentioned "The Pity of War" for which he was awarded his doctorate.

when a supposedly right wing historian of this man's stature describes Rumsfeld's "islamo-fascist" argument in these terms, it is worth noting.

Fergusons work is emmensely perceptive though i've never uunderstood why he feels that Britain is a English empire though the term empire is incredibely loose, ultimately i guess Edinburgh is ruled from London but the Scots are far better represented then any ethnic group in the dominions besides which they're hardly colonised howmany people born in Scotland call themselves English? BTW apparently History students get the most action at uni.

He does seem to me to provide very conservative narratives. If sociology departments tend to breed the most lefties at university, history departments often feel to be easily the most conservative!

I'm sorry but Ferguson is not from a working class background. His historical analysis is based on a very intelligent grasp of the period rather than some streetwise toughness. He's obviousIy been to the best schools. I agree that his work is excellent, but I don't think that being working class and coming from Liverpool or Newcastle or Glasgow or wherever gives somebody more authority.

CWK922,
I couldn't complete the exercise.

My hand smelled too bad.