On "The End of History"
In his article "The End of History," written on the eve of the collapse of the Soviet Union, Francis Fukuyama declares an "unabashed victory of economic and political liberalism" and that the "total exhaustion of viable systematic alternatives to Western liberalism" spell the "end of history." That is, we have arrived [...]
Niall Ferguson. The Cash Nexus: Money and Power in the Modern World 1700-2000. New York: Basic Books, 2001.
In The Cash Nexus, published in early 2001, historian Niall Ferguson endeavors to undermine approaches to history based on economic determinism, replacing them with an interpretation that instead privileges "political events." This approach enables him to dispense [...]