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on 2006-10-03 by cburell

Niall Ferguson's new book on the causes of 20th century slaughter--and a projection that Asia is the 21st century's hegemon.

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A century of slaughter From the trenches to the Holocaust and Rwanda, Niall Ferguson has sought challenging new explanations for world conflict, Allan Mallinson says The War of the World by Niall Ferguson Allen Lane, £25; 816pp “HISTORIANS ALWAYS YEARN for closure, a date when their narratives can end,” says Niall Ferguson in the introduction to his latest heavyweight work of narrative and analytical history, an examination of why the 20th century was the bloodiest yet.

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A century of slaughter From the trenches to the Holocaust and Rwanda, Niall Ferguson has sought challenging new explanations for world conflict, Allan Mallinson says The War of the World by Niall Ferguson Allen Lane, £25; 816pp “HISTORIANS ALWAYS YEARN for closure, a date when their narratives can end,” says Niall Ferguson in the introduction to his latest heavyweight work of narrative and analytical history, an examination of why the 20th century was the bloodiest yet.

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A century of slaughter From the trenches to the Holocaust and Rwanda, Niall Ferguson has sought challenging new explanations for world conflict, Allan Mallinson says The War of the World by Niall Ferguson Allen Lane, £25; 816pp “HISTORIANS ALWAYS YEARN for closure, a date when their narratives can end,” says Niall Ferguson in the introduction to his latest heavyweight work of narrative and analytical history, an examination of why the 20th century was the bloodiest yet.

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Twentieth-century empires were “exceptional in their capacity for dealing out death and destruction” because of “unprecedented degrees of centralised power, economic control and social homogeneity to which they aspired”. Indeed, they inherited from the 19th-century nation builders “an insatiable appetite for uniformity

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A century of slaughter From the trenches to the Holocaust and Rwanda, Niall Ferguson has sought challenging new explanations for world conflict, Allan Mallinson says The War of the World by Niall Ferguson Allen Lane, £25; 816pp “HISTORIANS ALWAYS YEARN for closure, a date when their narratives can end,” says Niall Ferguson in the introduction to his latest heavyweight work of narrative and analytical history, an examination of why the 20th century was the bloodiest yet.

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A century of slaughter From the trenches to the Holocaust and Rwanda, Niall Ferguson has sought challenging new explanations for world conflict, Allan Mallinson says The War of the World by Niall Ferguson Allen Lane, £25; 816pp “HISTORIANS ALWAYS YEARN for closure, a date when their narratives can end,” says Niall Ferguson in the introduction to his latest heavyweight work of narrative and analytical history, an examination of why the 20th century was the bloodiest yet.

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A century of slaughter From the trenches to the Holocaust and Rwanda, Niall Ferguson has sought challenging new explanations for world conflict, Allan Mallinson says The War of the World by Niall Ferguson Allen Lane, £25; 816pp “HISTORIANS ALWAYS YEARN for closure, a date when their narratives can end,” says Niall Ferguson in the introduction to his latest heavyweight work of narrative and analytical history, an examination of why the 20th century was the bloodiest yet.

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