Research

Current Research

"Siegmund Warburg: Finance and Power in the Twentieth Century"
a biographical study set against the backdrop of European (and global) financial integration after 1945 "The Economic and Social Origins of Ethnic Conflict: Miscegenation and Murder in East-Central Europe , 1918-1947 "
research project on the Second World War (to form part of a projected book entitled " The War")

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.