Publications

Books

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) The War of the World: Twentieth-Century Conflict and the Decline of the West (London / New York : Penguin Press, 2006) (Endnotes)

Journal Articles

Public Finance and National Security - The Domestic Origins of the First World War Revisited. Keynes and the German Inflation. Constraints and Room for Manoeuvre in German Inflation of the Early 20's (With Brigitte Granville) 'Weimar on the Volga': Causes and Consequences of Inflation in 1990's Russia Compared with 1920's Germany. The Dynamics of Defeat: Prisoner Taking and Prisoner Killing in the age of Total War. Political Risk and the International Bond Market between the 1848 Revolution and the Outbreak of the First World War. (With Mortiz Schularick) "The Empire Effect": The Determinants of Country Risk in the First Age of Globalization, 1880-1913. (Pdf) (Database)

Books Containing Chapters

The Black Book of Bosnia (Washington D.C. : Basic Books, 1996) The Treaty of Versailles: A Reassessment After 75 Years (Washington DC: German Historical Institute, 1998) 'Two Nations': The Historical Experience of British and German in Comparison (Berlin : J.C.B Mohr, 1999) Secrets of the Press: Journalists on Journalism (London : Penguin, 1999) Progress and Emancipation in the Age of Metternich: Jews and Modernisation in Austria and Germany, 1815-1848 (Edwin Mellen Press, 1999) The Short Oxford History of Europe: The Nineteenth Century (Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2000) Great War, Total War: Combat and Mobilization on the Western Front (Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2000) Three Post-War Eras in Comparison: Western Europe 1918-1945-1989 (Palgrave-Macmillan, 2002) Mission und Schicksal einer englischen Prinzessin in Deutschland (Campus Verlag, 2002) The Age of Terror: America and the World After September 11 (New York: Basic Books, 2002) Wilhelminism and its Legacies: German Modernities, Imperialism and the Meaning of Reform, 1890-1930 (Berghahn Books, 2003) The Death of the Past (Palgrave-MacMillan, 2003) London and Paris as International Financial Centres in the Twentieth Century (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004) Globalization in Historical Perspective (Chicago: National Bureau of Economic Research, 2005) Yet More Adventures with Britainnica: Personalities, Politics, and Culture in Britain (I.B. Tauris, 2005) The Origins of Value: The Financial Innovations That Created Modern Capital Markets (New York: Oxford University Press, 2005) The Barbarization of Welfare (New York University Press, 2006)

Working Papers

Earning from History(Link) Economic Origins of Second World War(Link) Eurobond Paper(Link) World War Two as an Economic Disaster(Link)