Modern History
July 7, 2019
We conventionally date the onset of the Great Depression to 1929. This make sense from the point of view of conventional business-cycle analysis. But the Great Depression wasn’t “great” because it was a conventional recession. It was great…
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June 1, 2018
As 1932 began, middle age was catching up with Pablo Picasso.Born 1881, once the bad boy of the Paris art scene, he was now into his 50s, famous and rich. But he was unhappy in his marriage and worried that he was yesterday’s man.…
November 19, 2017
One of the urgent challenges for the Western historical imagination is to come to terms as best we can with how different the twentieth and twenty-first centuries appear when viewed from the “Asian” perspective. And we have to start by…
November 8, 2017
Yesterday, for reasons that are somewhat obscure, I found myself in a rather tense exchange about the historiography of 1914 with, of all people, Branko Milanovic. Some weeks ago I shared with Branko a copy of a paper I contributed to a…
August 27, 2017
Once more on the liberal-democratic mode of war-fighting and the problems of writing its history, a review essay on the historiography of D-Day. The successful Allied landings on the beaches of Normandy on 6 June 1944 stand as one of the…
Uncategorized,Modern History
July 12, 2017
Strategic bombing has a claim to be the quintessential field of modern military history. It has been the subject of a vast range of technical, political, historical, moral and philosophical commentary. It’s a subject no historian of…
June 21, 2017
A while back I scandalized a polite conference of art historians and material culture folk by giving a paper about a machine gun, the MG42, complete with video clip gore. Since then, I’ve grown up a bit . The audio and powerpoint…
June 3, 2017
On the coast of Normandy between Caen and Cherbourg, history is everywhere. A trip to the D-Day sites of Normandy is a trip to a historical Babel. History is spoken, narrated, displayed, remembered by a huge range of people in a cacophony…
May 31, 2017
Today, the symbolic center of the Burgundian wine trade is the Hospice de Beaune, the beautiful medieval hospital building, which hosts the annual harvest festival of some of France’s most high-end wine-makers. It is also one of the best…
May 18, 2017
Recently, John Terilla, brilliant mathematician and polymath and puppy-walking friend from Riverside park, alerted me to Deborah Cohen’s wonderful review of Frank Trentmann’s Empire of Things: How we became a world of…
April 21, 2017
A propos of a panel at Columbia with Wang Hui, Susan Buck-Morss, and Harry Harootunian about the Russian revolution, a few remarks on thinking about the anniversary. In commemorating 1917, even if October 1917 is at the center of our…
February 1, 2017
In 2014 on anniversary of WWI gallup conducted a poll on whether people would be willing to fight if their country was involved in an armed conflict. They repeated it in 2015. The results, on the face of it, are impressive for two reasons:…
Modern History,Nazi Germany
January 25, 2017
In 2005 the pioneering historian of Nazi Germany Götz Aly published a remarkable book about the social base of Hitler’s regime, Hitler’s Volksstaat which appeared in English as Hitler’s Beneficiaries. In brief Aly claimed that Germany’s…
January 13, 2017
Anniversary Essay in Prospect Reflecting on 1917-2017. Click here for webpage: Click here to download PDF of Tooze Prospect 1917 piece Save
March 25, 2016
Adam Tooze: NATO Expansion and the Swap Lines: the Unspoken Geopolitics of the Financial Crisis in Europe, 2007-2013March 28, 2016 – 12:00pmEncina Hall East, Reuben Hills Conference RoomFree and open to the…
March 15, 2016
NATO Expansion and the Swap Lines: the Unspoken Geopolitics of the Financial Crisis in Europe, 2007-2013 Tuesday, March 15, 201612 p.m. McKinney Conference Room Lunch will be available.Adam Tooze is…
March 11, 2016
Published on Mar 11, 2016Date: Mar 07, 2016 David O’Sullivan, Ambassador of the European Union to the United States, in conversation with Adam Tooze, Director of the European Institute, Kathryn and Shelby…
March 9, 2016
“Remaking the World Order”Professor Adam Tooze, Columbia UniversityTo attend to this workshop, please RSVP to Jennifer Loessy at [email protected] (link sends e-mail). Lunch will be served, and maximum attendance is 25 people.……
February 11, 2016
Published on Feb 11, 2016Date: Feb 08, 2016 The European Union and the United States have joined efforts to try to contain and resolve the crisis in Ukraine. This close cooperation has not been without…
November 13, 2015
Published on Nov 13, 2015A l’occasion du Salon du livre des Rendez-vous de l’Histoire à Blois, rencontre avec Adam Tooze autour de son ouvrage “Le déluge 1916-1931” aux éditions…
October 16, 2015
Published on Oct 16, 2015Conférence captée par les Clionautes lors des Rendez-Vous de l’Histoire de Blois 2015
September 25, 2015
New York Military Affairs Symposium Audio Podcasts of Friday Evening Talks Wages of Destruction: The Making and Breaking of the Nazi War Economy recorded September 25, 2015 1 hour and 48 mins Click Here to Listen
June 5, 2015
Published on Jun 5, 2014The third installment of the 3-lecture series, “The Europe Center Lectureship on Europe and the World”. Date: May 2, 2014 Speaker: Adam Tooze, Barton M. Briggs…
June 5, 2014
Published on Jun 5, 2014The second installment of the 3-lecture series, “The Europe Center Lectureship on Europe and the World”. Date: May 1, 2014 Speaker: Adam Tooze, Barton M. Briggs…
May 21, 2014
Published on May 21, 2014The first installment of the 3-lecture series, “The Europe Center Lectureship on Europe and the World”. Date: April 30, 2014 Speaker: Adam Tooze, Barton M. Briggs…
April 25, 2013
Adam Tooze: Der Krieg gegen die Juden: Strategie und Ökonomie als treibende Kräfte des HolocaustSimon Wiesenthal Lecture. Datum: Donnerstag 14. März 2013. Ort: Haus-, Hof- und Staatsarchiv Wien