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Colossus

Colossus

by Niall Ferguson

2003Foreign relationsImperialismPhilosophyImperialismeRelations extérieures
4.0
Open Library
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Argues that the United States is both economically and militarily the most powerful empire in history and will feel negative consequences as a result of imposing unrealistic timescales on interventions abroad.

Themes & subjects

Foreign relationsImperialismPhilosophyImperialismeRelations extérieuresWereldrijken
First published 2003

Setting

United StatesÉtats-UnisUSA2001-20th century21st century20e siècle2001-2009

About the author

Niall Ferguson
Niall Ferguson

18 April 1964

Niall Campbell Ferguson is a British historian from Scotland. He is the Laurence A. Tisch Professor of History at Harvard University. He is also a Senior Research Fellow of Jesus College, University of Oxford, a Senior Fellow of the Hoover Institution, Stanford University and visiting professor at the New College of the Humanities. His specialties are international history, economic and financial history, and British and American imperialism. He is known for his provocative, contrarian views. - Wikipedia

Author

Niall Ferguson

First published

2003

Pages

400

Read time

≈ 10h

Editions

9

Languages

English, Spanish

Publisher

Penguin Books Ltd

ISBN

9780141017006

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