War in Germany 16: Making a Bitter Peace 1918-1923
June 29, 2018
Can you negotiate the end of a total war? The story of the German revolution, near civil war and the brutal process of peace-making both inside and without.
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War in Germany Extra: Wages of Destruction Podcast
June 28, 2018
A podcast about Wages of Destruction, the modernity of the Nazi war effort and the logic of Eastward expansion with Alex Doherty of Politics, Theory, Other.
Notes on the Global Condition: Class, Inequality and the Sino-American Balance of Payments – Prompted by Matt Klein
June 25, 2018
If inequality and elite class strategy drive the Sino-American imbalance on the Chinese side, it most certainly does on the US side too.
Framing Crashed (1): Trade and Finance – Two Different Visions of the Twenty-First Century Global Condition
June 23, 2018
How a Bank of England report on China-risks to the UK economy exposes the economic anatomy of 21st-century globalization.
War in Germany 15: Victory Impossible, 1916-1918?
June 17, 2018
How Imperial Germany struggled to find a victorious way out of an unwinnable war and how the perverse cunning of history thwarted it.
America’s Political Economy: Inequality in 2D and 3D
June 13, 2018
Innovative analysis of new sources throws new light on the phenomenon of massive and increasing inequality in modern America.
War in Germany 14: Schlieffen to Verdun
June 9, 2018
Germany’s vain struggle to win the Great War in 1914-1916.
German Question(s): The New Germans and the Old Germans
June 7, 2018
How Germany is undergoing a generational power shift and how history still hangs over it.
Modern History: Picasso’s 1932
June 1, 2018
Layers of historicity in a remarkable show at the Tate Modern.
European Political Economy: Italy’s Elite Chooses a Strategy of Tension
May 29, 2018
How Italy’s pro-European elite are raising the stakes.
Europe’s Political Economy: A Gamble Gone Wrong – Notes on the Backdrop to the Italian Crisis
May 25, 2018
Notes on the historical backdrop to the current Italian-European situation. A crisis made in Italy or Europe?
Notes on Social Theory: A Piece for Karl Marx’s 200th Birthday
May 4, 2018
A review of Sven-Eric Liedman’s substantial new biography in the FT.
Notes on Social Theory: Reading Policing the Crisis in light of the politics of austerity
May 3, 2018
Reading the politics of the eurozone crisis through the Birmingham school.
War in Germany: Lecture 12 Wilhelmine Germany, Militarism and Weltpolitik
April 8, 2018
Imperial Germany: a regime uneasily founded on militarism in the first age of “globalization”.
War in Germany: Lecture 11 Franco-Prussian War
March 31, 2018
War in Germany is back. Installment 11 on the Franco-Prussian war.
America’s Political Economy: Essential new work on intergenerational inequality in the US – how race, gender and social structure interact
March 20, 2018
How the disadvantage of black men accounts for the entire difference in social mobility between black and white americans. If you read just one thing on American society this year, make it these reports!
War in Germany: Bismarck and the Austro-Prussian war of 1866
March 18, 2018
1864-1866: How war finally emerged as the solution to the Prussian impasse. Bismarck and Wilhelm roll the iron dice.
Notes on the Global Condition: Nuclear aircraft carriers in the age of the anthropocene
March 17, 2018
What happens when the history of the weather overtakes the greatest military superpower the world has ever seen? What happens when the sea level rises faster than you replace the infrastructure and machinery of global nuclear power?
War in Germany: 1848 and the impasse of conservative militarism in Prussia
March 7, 2018
Taking the War in Germany story up to 1850.
Europe’s Political Economy: Reading Reviews of Varoufakis’s Adults in the Room
February 24, 2018
Comparing three different lines of reading Varoufakis’s gripping memoir.
America’s Political Economy: How college attendance varies with parental income
February 18, 2018
The stark simplicity of educational disadvantage.
War in Germany: Clausewitz
February 16, 2018
Clausewitz’s historical theory of war set against the Prussian crisis of 1806-1815.
War in Germany: “In the beginning was Napoleon”
February 13, 2018
The shock of revolutionary warfare, the Napoleonic struggle for continental hegemony, Prussia’s crisis and the desperate choices of 1812-1813.
Notes on the Global Condition: Democracy’s Twenty-First-Century Histories – Call for Comments
February 9, 2018
The place of history in thinking about the “crisis of democracy”. A call for hot takes on a rushed essay about the recent historiography of democracy.
War in Germany: Prussia and the problem of war in the 18th century
February 3, 2018
The romp continues: Frederick the Great, Seven Years War, the philosophes on war, Washington’s Prussian drill master and the French revolution.
War in Germany: The Thirty Years War and the Treaty of Westphalia
January 27, 2018
Lectures 2 and 3.
America’s Political Economy: The local structure of labour markets and bargaining power
January 20, 2018
There’s only one game in town. Local labour markets across the US are highly concentrated in favor of employers.
War in Germany 1618-2018
January 18, 2018
Notes on teaching a German military history course in the US in 2018.
Notes on the Global Condition: Of Landscapes of Feed and Oceanic Dead Zones
January 7, 2018
From Iowa to Brazil’s cerrado by way of the Gulf of Mexico – the dizzying hemispheric agro-industrial and ecological connections.
Crashed: How a Decade of Financial Crises Changed the World – Out August 2018
January 4, 2018
Book in works. A post of thanks!
Europe’s Political Economy: Mario Draghi and the eurozone’s crisis winter of 2011-2012
December 31, 2017
Revisiting two revealing interviews from December 2011 and February 2012 throws light on the economics and politics of the eurozone crisis.
German Question(s): The life and times of Habermas
December 27, 2017
Two great reviews of a Habermas biography raise fascinating questions about his centrality to intellectual life in Germany since 1945.
Notes on the Global Condition: NSS 2017
December 24, 2017
Trump’s National Security Strategy offers a bleak vision of history and the present.
America’s Political Economy: The Double Life of Mariel
December 9, 2017
How controversy swirled and still swirls around the arrival of 125,000 Cubans in Miami in 1980.
Recommended Links: 2 December 2017
December 2, 2017
Robots, Ireland in the age of the world crisis, employment hysterisis and more …
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