Publications

Major Publications

Paper and Iron: Hamburg Business and German Politics in the Era of Inflation, 1897-1927 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995) (editor) Virtual History: Alternatives and Counterfactuals (London: Macmillan, 1997) The Pity of War (London: Allen Lane/Penguin Press, 1998) The House of Rothschild, 2 vols. (Penguin Press, 1998-9) The Cash Nexus: Money and Power in the Modern World, 1700-2000 (London , Allen Lane/Penguin Press, 2001) Empire: The Rise and Fall of the British World Order and the Lessons for Global Power (New York: Basic Books, 2003) Colossus: The Rise and Fall of the American Empire (London / New York : Penguin Press, 2004)

Teaching Materials

"The Cash Nexus." (www.boxmind.com e-lecture, March 2001.) "Why the World Wars Were Won." (www.boxmind.com e-lecture, December 2000.)

Selected Unpublished Articles

British Imperialism Revisited: The Cost and Benefits of 'Anglobalization' (pdf)

Selected Published Articles

Constraints and Room for Manoeuvre in German Inflation of the Early 20's (pdf) Economics, Religion and the Decline of Europe (pdf) Germany and the Origins of the First World War - New Perspectives (pdf) Keynes and the German Inflation (pdf) Public Finance and National Security - The Domestic Origins of the First World War Revisited (pdf) Sinking Globalization Foreign Affairs (pdf)

Selected Journalism

The Hedged and Unhedged (Fortune, May 2004) (pdf) 'The Widening Atlantic' (Atlantic Monthly, February 2005) (pdf)