ADAM TOOZE

Southern Africa during the early Cold War – its surprisingly hard to find a good map online. This one is an excepti… https://t.co/sp4iCaAYEK

In 1961 Detroit produced 40% of all cars manufactured globally. Today the share is closer to 10% and China’s share… https://t.co/uwJWxkezwB

Bad news in China -> expectation of stimulus -> global markets rebound. It is a strange cycle premised on assumptio… https://t.co/qzIGg72iGC

Share of working population at risk of (relative) poverty in EU – another chart worth bearing in mind when we consi… https://t.co/hX07MC4PlV

How minimum wages vary across the EU: Greek and Portuguese are 1/2 those in Germany. Bulgarian minimum is 1/5 of t… https://t.co/7n2fk76NYg

Along the Amber Route: St Petersburg to Venice, by CJ Schüler This book about the Baltic trade in amber and its lay… https://t.co/Joflr00ksm

How Canada’s Bombardier attempt to move into the high stakes world of passenger jets left it with crippling debt an… https://t.co/lnlr38JhIZ

A T-34 in the service of Idi Amin in the 1979 war with Tanzania. They suffered horrible losses at the hands of far… https://t.co/4TuMfNgyLb

Southern Africa during the early Cold War – its surprisingly hard to find a good map online. This one is an excepti… https://t.co/2h5HWAsAiY

In 1961 Detroit produced 40% of all cars manufactured globally. Today the share is closer to 10% and China’s share… https://t.co/as9MNROGPH

Bad news in China -> expectation of stimulus -> global markets rebound. It is a strange cycle premised on assumptio… https://t.co/s04Qdbxqfj

Share of working population at risk of (relative) poverty in EU – another chart worth bearing in mind when we consi… https://t.co/yte3rHrtgg

How minimum wages vary across the EU: Greek and Portuguese are 1/2 those in Germany. Bulgarian minimum is 1/5 of t… https://t.co/WdYHgZvfnq

Along the Amber Route: St Petersburg to Venice, by CJ Schüler This book about the Baltic trade in amber and its lay… https://t.co/aT87ucjN0v

How Canada’s Bombardier attempt to move into the high stakes world of passenger jets left it with crippling debt an… https://t.co/iqf86dSlja

Putting down the Dar mutiny January 1964 as captured by Life magazine: Britain’s military intervened in Tanganyika… https://t.co/10dYqL91aZ

"In a very real sense, the frightening precision of special operating forces commando type tactics has infected our… https://t.co/95xmvY1ZGz

Shervick tractor in Tanganyika, Africa on the ill-fated "Tanganyika Groundnut Scheme”. To cultivate the heavy clay… https://t.co/c9HMklX0Gg

George Kennan’s doodles excavated from the Princeton archive by @RobRakove are truly worth looking into! https://t.co/mtBnpyN3PJ

For a smart introduction to history of modern Tanzania, this by @paulbjerk is excellent. His account of 1964 crisis… https://t.co/VweSJV4qcF

In an astonishing burst of urbanization, Casablanca, Morocco’s main commercial and industrial city, grew between 19… https://t.co/wYhpTQSHCy

The great collage: GDR-designed public housing looms over Neo-colonial and improvised buildings in Zanzibar.… https://t.co/WNqeJyAcKa

For a smart introduction to history of modern Tanzania, this by @paulbjerk is excellent. His account of 1964 crisis… https://t.co/X3PLhYBV6e

Erik Gilbert, Dhows and the Colonial Economy of Zanzibar, 1860-1970. I really look forward to treating myself to th… https://t.co/XN37PQAA5A

Four books on climate change policy reviewed by @pilitaclark Of which “by far the most provocative is Climate Chan… https://t.co/eUIIVfetAD

World Bank chief economist @Penny_WB the job early and at same time Bank is trying to spike controversial research… https://t.co/Tw0NZ7w5F2

A zero-carbon economy would require about four to five times as much electricity as our present one, all from non-c… https://t.co/qOxtDRPEgN

Between the 1860s and 1920s a monopoly of modern weaponry gave European & American imperialists an unprecedented an… https://t.co/jhS1EK4Ll2

In early 19th century malaria, killed within a year roughly half of all Europeans reaching West Africa. Introductio… https://t.co/XsuIGJx54n

@adam_tooze Every time I talk slavery in class an my students discover the history of Zanzibar-Oman (Omanzibar?), they are blown away.

American cloth from New England was so popular in East Africa by the 1830s that a new word emerged in Swahili to na… https://t.co/AOWx1j4sOH

Zanzibar waterfront 1857 at time of its prosperity earned on back of slave trade & exports of ivory, cloves and gum… https://t.co/uzil9NTuCQ

Four books on climate change policy reviewed by @pilitaclark Of which “by far the most provocative is Climate Chan… https://t.co/4CMSRexjdI

World Bank chief economist @Penny_WB the job early and at same time Bank is trying to spike controversial research… https://t.co/Fq5ORqXrsl