Books by Adam Tooze

This chilling, fascinating new book is the first fully to get to grips with how Hitler's Nazi empire REALLY functioned. There was no aspect of Nazi power untouched by economics - it was Hitler's obsession and the reason the Nazis came to power in the first place. The Second World War was fought, in Hitler's view, to create a European Empire strong enough to take on the United States - a last chance for Europe to dig itself in before being swept away by the USA's ever greater power. But, as THE WAGES OF DESTRUCTION makes clear, Hitler was never remotely strong enough to beat either Britain or the Soviet Union - and never even had a serious plan as to how he might defeat the USA. It took years of fighting and the deaths of millions of people to destroy the Third Reich, but effectively World War II in Europe was fought in pursuit of a fantasy: the years in which Western Europe could settle the world's fate were, by 1939, long past. This is a major book by a major author and will provoke an enormous amount of controversy and debate.

WINNER OF THE LOS ANGELES TIMES PRIZE FOR HISTORY FINANCIAL TIMES AND NEW STATESMAN BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2014On the centenary of the outbreak of the First World War, Deluge is a powerful explanation of why the war's legacy continues to shape our world - from Adam Tooze, the Wolfson Prize-winning author of The Wages of DestructionIn the depths of the Great War, with millions of dead and no imaginable end to the conflict, societies around the world began to buckle. As the cataclysmic battles continued, a new global order was being born.Adam Tooze's panoramic new book tells a radical, new story of the struggle for global mastery from the battles of the Western Front in 1916 to the Great Depression of the 1930s. The war shook the foundations of political and economic order across Eurasia. Empires that had lasted since the Middle Ages collapsed into ruins. New nations sprang up. Strikes, street-fighting and revolution convulsed much of the world. And beneath the surface turmoil, the war set in motion a deeper and more lasting shift, a transformation that continues to shape the present day: 1916 was the year when world affairs began to revolve around the United States. America was both a uniquely powerful global force: a force that was forward-looking, the focus of hope, money and ideas, and at the same time elusive, unpredictable and in fundamental respects unwilling to confront these unwished for responsibilities. Tooze shows how the fate of effectively the whole of civilization - the British Empire, the future of peace in Europe, the survival of the Weimar Republic, both the Russian and Chinese revolutions and stability in the Pacific - now came to revolve around this new power's fraught relationship with a shockingly changed world. The Deluge is both a brilliantly illuminating exploration of the past and an essential history for the present.

Rystelserne fra pandemiens start i 2020 har været store og små. De har skabt forstyrrelser i internationale relationer og i dagligdagen. Verdensmarkedet er skrumpet i et tempo uden fortilfælde. Hundredvis af millioner har mistet deres job. Og sygdommens spøgelse lurer stadig. I Nedlukket går Adam Tooze til pandemien som en økonomisk og politisk begivenhed, der blotlagde det globale systems styrke og skrøbelighed. Med indsigt i realpolitiske beslutninger, afdækning af sammenhænge mellem forskellige institutioner og aktører samt koblinger til de store idepolitiske linjer viser han, hvor uforberedt verden var til at bekæmpe krisen. Virussen har angrebet vores helbred, men også det økonomiske og politiske system, som vores sundhed afhænger af – uden at der er en vaccine på vej til at kurere det.

Spannend wie ein Thriller - Adam Tooze beschreibt unsere Welt im radikalen Wandel.Adam Tooze erzählt in seinem atemberaubenden neuen Hörbuch die Geschichte der zwölf Monate vom Januar 2020 bis Januar 2021. Am Anfang gibt Xi Jinping der Weltöffentlichkeit bekannt, dass sich in China ein neuer tödlicher Virus ausbreitet. Am Ende zieht Joe Biden als Nachfolger von Donald Trump ins Weiße Haus ein. Dazwischen liegen die Schockwellen einer verheerenden Pandemie, die keinen Kontinent, kein Land und keine Bevölkerung ungeschoren lässt. Der brillante Wirtschaftshistoriker schildert nicht nur sehr präzise, wie und warum Staaten und nationale Ökonomien auf jeweils eigene Weise und mit sehr unterschiedlichen Resultaten auf das Geschehen reagiert haben. Er tut etwas, das neu ist: Er analysiert die Pandemie im Kontext der anderen großen Krisen unserer Zeit, von der weiter schwelenden Finanzkrise über die Klimakrise bis zur Flüchtlingskrise. "Welt im Lockdown" ist eine tiefenscharfe Diagnose der Gegenwart und ein Hörbuch, aus dem man lernen kann, wie die globalisierte Welt funktioniert, in der wir heute leben."Einer der führenden ‹Global Thinkers› unserer Zeit." - Foreign PolicyAdam Tooze ist Autor der vielgepriesenen Bücher "Ökonomie der Zerstörung" und "Crashed" und gilt als einer der führenden Wirtschaftshistoriker unserer Zeit. Nach Stationen in Cambridge und Yale lehrt er heute an der Columbia University. Seine Arbeiten wurden mehrfach preisgekrönt, u.a. mit dem renommierten Wolfson Preis für Geschichte sowie dem Preis Historisches Buch von H-Soz-Kult.