From one of our most renowned historians, Civilization: The West and the Rest is the definitive history of Western civilization's rise to global dominance---and the "killer applications" that made this improbable ascent poss...

Niall Ferguson follows the money to tell the human story behind the evolution of finance, from its origins in ancient Mesopotamia to the latest upheavals on what he calls Planet Finance.

Bestselling author Niall Ferguson reveals for the first time the true extent of Siegmund Warburg's influence---and the lessons we can learn in a time of crisis from the last of the high financiers.