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Niall Campbell Douglas Ferguson is a British historian. His speciality is financial and economic history, particularly hyperinflation and the bond markets, as well as the history of colonialism. Ferguson, who was born in Glasgow, is the Laurence A. Tisch Professor of History at Harvard University... as well as William Ziegler Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. He was educated at the private Glasgow Academy in Scotland, and at Magdalen College, Oxford. Ferguson's books include Empire: How Britain Made the Modern World, The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World and Civilization: The West and the Rest, all of which he has also presented as Channel 4 television series. In 2004 he was named as one of the 100 most influential people in the world by Time magazine. He is currently a contributing editor for Bloomberg Television and a columnist for Newsweek. He is currently working on the official biography of Henry Kissinger to whom he has been granted unprecedented access. Ferguson was born the son of a doctor father and a physics teacher mother in Glasgow on April 18, 1964, and lived for a time near Ibrox Park.
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