From the cash injection that funded the Italian Renaissance to the stock market bubble that sparked the French Revolution, from the bonds that fueled Britain's war effort to the Wall Street Crash and meltdown, this book presents the story of boom and bust. It shows that finance is the foundation of all human progress and the lifeblood of history.

Recreates the excitement, brutality and adventure of the British Empire. This book is a major reinterpretation of the British Empire as one of the world's modernising forces. It shows how the British Empire in the 19th Century spearheaded real globalisation with steampower, telegraphs, guns, engineers, missionaries and millions of settlers.

The world at the beginning of the 20th century seemed stable and relatively benign. But, it proved to be overwhelmingly the most violent, frightening and brutalized in history with fanatical, often genocidal warfare. What went wrong? How did we do this to ourselves? This title comes up with answers.

Is America the new world empire? Presidents from Lincoln to Bush may have denied it but, as Niall Ferguson's brilliant and provocative book shows, the US is the greatest military and economic colossus of all time.

Recreates the excitement, brutality and adventure of the British Empire. This book aims to provide a reinterpretation of the British Empire as one of the world's greatest modernising forces. It shows how the British Empire in the 19th Century spearheaded globalisation with steampower, telegraphs, guns, engineers and missionaries.

Provides an account of the history and impact of post-World War II financial markets on the economy - what happened, how we got to where we are, and what needs to be done. This book explores the erosion of credit ratings on corporate debt in the late 1980s and the rapid increase in financial concentration of institutions.

More than any other event, the First World War made the twentieth century. This book, aimed to appeal not only to students but also to the general reader, talks about many of the myths surrounding the war.

Offering a glimpse at how highest paid money managers approach their craft, this title takes you into the hedge fund industry. It demystifies how these star traders make billions for their well-heeled investors, revealing their theories, strategies and approaches to markets.

Tells the history of the legendary Rothschild banking dynasty. This second volume concludes the author's myth-breaking portrait of one of the most powerful and fascinating families of modern times. At once a family saga and a major work of economic, social and political history, it traces Rothschild's ascent.

The 20th century proved to be overwhelmingly the most violent, frightening and brutalized in history with fanatical, often genocidal warfare engulfing most societies between the outbreak of the First World War and the end of the Cold War. What went wrong? How did we do this to ourselves? This work aims to provide the answers for these questions.

Generations of historians have shied away from the truth behind the cliche: money makes the world go around. This book answers questions about finance and its crucial place in bringing happiness and despair, warfare and welfare, boom and crash to nations buffeted by the onward march of history.

A portrait of the remarkable, elusive Rothschild family. It uncovers the secrets behind the family's phenomenal economic success. It also reveals the details of the family's vast political network, which gave it access to and influence over many of the greatest statesmen of the age.

Shows that finance is in fact the foundation of human progress. This book reveals financial history as the essential back-story behind all history. It explains why the origins of the French Revolution lie in a stock market bubble caused by a convicted Scots murderer.

Constructs a scenario starting with Charles I's defeat of the Covenanters, running through three revolutions, the American, the French and the Russian - that did not happen and climaxing with the collapse of the West, ruled by an Anglo American empire, in the face of a mighty transcontinental, tsarist Russian imperium.

This study presents a challenge to the prevailing view that there was no alternative to the inflationary economic policies of Weimar Germany.

The Caledonian Railway was the largest of the three Scottish companies to go into the London Midland & Scottish Railway at the grouping in 1923. This book looks at how the 'Caley' system fared in the ownership of the LMS in which it became the dominant partner of the latter's Northern Division.

This study presents a challenge to the prevailing view that there was no alternative to the inflationary economic policies of Weimar Germany.

Intends to reinterpret the British Empire as one of the world's greatest modernising forces. This book shows how the British Empire in the 19th Century spearheaded real globalisation with steampower, telegraphs, guns, engineers, missionaries and millions of settlers.