@picharbonnier Oh definitely. Sui generis like all Radkau’s work. But that is what makes him, to my mind, the most interesting historian (along with Koselleck)
@SineadJCarolan @eglerin Thank you. Great tip!
@bhbradlow Yes, but he is so in love with Gorbachev 😉
I am sure that repeated viewing of Koyaanisqatsi in flea-pit cinemas in Heidelberg rendered me Anthropozenempfaenglich from an early age! twitter.com/Jmhaas/status/…
@LalehKhalili As his mobilization of the idled capacity and skills of Germany’s Nazi-era dockyards to gain competitive edge in postwar shipping market.
Wartime tanker converted into Onassis’s postwar whaling factory ship Olympic Challenger. Equipped with helicopters for finding its prey, its mainly German crew managed by Erste
Has anyone written anything good about the imaginary of the global, Gorbachev and the end of the Cold War? kobo.com/us/en/ebook/ma… https://t.co/aTQNBXhxwm
1950 and 1956, Aristotle S. Onassis owned the whaling fleet around floating factory "Olympic Challenger". Under Panama and Honduras flag, it was managed by Hamburg
Since the world is large and complex, and global risks are not evident to the senses, global environmental issues have the twin face of a
RT @maggieNYT: "We’re told the president and his top allies pressured the two Republican senators to take this step, lest he tweet a negati…
Eyeballing this, US Presidential election spending tripled btw 2016 and 2020! To c. $6.5bn! twitter.com/DKThomp/status…
RT @carlzimmer: North Dakota hospitals are at 100% capacity. Governor is allowing covid-positive nurses to stay at work. https://t.co/XMPdf…
This is a great thread on a way to think about the struggle to cope with and recover from mental illness. twitter.com/BuddNicholas/s…
RT @BuddNicholas: I hope it simplifies. I hope it gives stability of an unstable situation. Every small step. Every seemingly innocuous p…
2/3 of Trump voters approve of how he is handling the election result. twitter.com/JesseFFerguson…
RT @JimPethokoukis: JPMORGAN this morning: "At this stage, it appears unlikely that we see a Biden victory overturned by conventional means…
@haecker_mann @JeroenDjoene @MeisterSto Oh wow. THIS IS VERY COOL … thank you!
Alwin Seifert became known as a lecturer on garden and cemetery construction at the Munich Institute of Technology, and after 1933 as ‘Reich Landscape Lawyer’
Thank you @anyaSIPA If anything, the scenery has darkened since I wrote this. , twitter.com/anyaSIPA/statu…
Australia Unlimited, E.J. Brady 1918 promised a cornucopian future based on tapping limitless groundwater for irrigation. https://t.co/hTjNz2KPIC
RT @MeisterSto: @adam_tooze In der Zeitschrift für Ideengeschichte "Die Party" ( amazon.de/Zeitschrift-Id… ) findet sich dieses Photo: http…
Does anyone know of a photo in which the great contending protagonists of German social theory of the 1970s and 1980s, Habermas and Luhmann, appear
RT @Will___lloyd: @adam_tooze How about this Margaret Thatcher speech in 1989 to the UN – margaretthatcher.org/document/107817 https://t.co/AyHgnl5320
Climate catastrophe Cologne cathedral under water Spiegel August 1986 1986! https://t.co/F6grTDk5ft
Topsoil and civilization. Might be my favorite title of the month! https://t.co/tj9qz0wRs2
RT @HyunSongShin: Much can be learned on the payment system and the monetary-fiscal nexus from the rise and fall of the Bank of Amsterdam (…
It is thought that between 1947 and 1992 dam projects in India drove as many as 20 million people from their home region. Roy has
RT @DominikLeusder: For those who speak German, here’s sort of a follow up on yesterday’s event on US power in the transatlantic system. ht…
After 11 years of construction, the Aswan High Dam across the Nile River in Egypt is completed on July 21, 1970. Learning this date triggered
"Deserts on the March , Paul Sears’s rousing book published in 1935 by the University of Oklahoma, at the centre of the Dust Bowl region,
"Imagine an air-raid – planes, bombs, houses smashed, fires breaking out – corpses lying in the smoking ashes – and lions and tigers roaming the
The return of class discourse in Germany is a remarkable thing! twitter.com/Francis__Seeck…
RT @soxgnasher: Arthur Toms Eel & Pie House 84 Chatsworth Road Clapton open before 1913 I used to have Pie & Mash in here in
RT @juergenzimmerer: "We are no longer a great power. We will never be so again. In a world of nearly eight billion people, well under
Morgen werde ich per Zoom, aus einem nervösen New York, mit Wolfgang Schäuble das Ende des Amerikanischen Jahrhunderts diskutieren. Surreal …. Schaut rein! twitter.com/Woidelko/statu…
RT @Marialovessea: #ArtBook "The Electric State" © Simon Stålenhag 2017 Set in a post-apocalyptic 1997, "The Electric State" is the story…
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