Research

Current Research

"High Financier: The Lives and Times of Siegmund Warburg"

a biographical study of the dominant figure in the City of London after World War II (to be published in 2010)

"Henry Kissinger: A Life"

a biographical study of the most influential Secretary of State and diplomatic thinker of the post-war era

Research Interests

Prof. Ferguson's research is principally focused on nineteenth- and twentieth-century subjects, with an emphasis on economic and especially financial history. He has subsidiary interests in international relations and military conflict. He continues to be interested in the use of counterfactuals in historical explanation.