ADAM TOOZE

Pakistan could pay $700m for an F16 which comes with all kinds of conditions or 1/3 that for a Chinese designed JF-… https://t.co/oOgdYpsuWg

In filming Triumph of the Will Riefenstahl’s crew of 32 cameramen (sic) were dressed in SA uniforms so as not to di… https://t.co/cADIj7WUzl

No place of safety: how WWI impacted the trade of the neutrals. Herman de Jong and Stefan Nikolić contribution to… https://t.co/LRE7GNP9JF

"What makes modernity so promiscuous is not content of identities people have fashioned or designs they have erecte… https://t.co/BDdkZbk42B

Old but important piece about Pakistan’s shift from US to China as its main source of high tech weaponry.… https://t.co/w0DD5zmnJu

Spectacular data on the collapse of Russian agricultural production between 1914 and its nadir in 1921. Background… https://t.co/YVC9EdKNlW

How China replied Japan as the driver of the US trade deficit … and as the main foe of Donald Trump’s protectionism… https://t.co/aqB674pIsY

Who did well out of the war (WWI)? In Imperial Germany it was chemicals and metalworking/machinery at the expense o… https://t.co/rkQL5tyPtE

@Pushback_stream @VaishaliNarkar @Chemburstudio @Zeelaf01 @DJasraj @DalrympleWill @dpanikkar @farida_art… https://t.co/5WYI5uqWvJ

@McAviti @chr_mich @FranzSchellhorn probate inventories left at death are the key source I believe especially for the older data.

Amazing chart: 9 of the world's top 15 maths / computing universities now in Asia. None in Europe. This on China'… https://t.co/0HuhnokUaR

In 2010 US equipment spending per member of its armed forces was four times that in Europe. Extraordinarily telling… https://t.co/3ZkwJNml6u

The "arms race” before WWI was real, but it was hardly a frantic affair. Certainly not to be compared to the 1930s.… https://t.co/jpi0KWYsnd

How WWI devastated the European economy. These data come with a health warning. Use at your own risk. But great to… https://t.co/FEi2Iryax4

Xi v. Deng: The great initiator of reform relegated to the distant past in latest show of political art in China. F… https://t.co/7dcWl2koWM

In WWI purchasing power matters: In 1914 British net foreign assets stood at 180% GDP, French 100% GDP v. German 50… https://t.co/wK3ICMxYuL

A long run of UK wealth inequality data looking back as far as 1670 puts the moment of surging inequality since the… https://t.co/NmHooYibiJ

Some thoughts on History and Brexit in the Observer @kingshistory @kingscbh @kingsartshums The idea of deep contin… https://t.co/lw7mkbJ96p

Materialschlacht: Entente and US advantage in WWI production race was above all in the offensive weapons that would… https://t.co/sNs8d0CkiM

“The Quad”: As the effort to contain China gathers momentum we may be hearing more about the entente btw US, India,… https://t.co/29mdmVRIGZ

It was not until 1970 that world exports recovered to the trend growth line of the pre 1914 period.… https://t.co/v3iWfgw7qS

That was another edition of Chartstravaganza. Please recommend us to your friends. Informative AND fun AND free …… https://t.co/Y5r1dpCRN6

The UK is living Brexit through a pastiche of irrelevant historical imagery and associations. When will reality bit… https://t.co/vCkzWJsYXU

How after 1939 “Great War” was replaced in English by World War I. In German the use of word (Erster) Weltkrieg was… https://t.co/7zkz1F2skX

Europe’s first continent-wide refugee crisis was WWI. c. 3 m in W. Europe and c. 8m in the East. Extraordinary data… https://t.co/YX7XuwarP6

Billboard celebrating Gaza’s heroic first responders outside Boston is taken down under pressure… https://t.co/pSJG3QuVYW

Like the "failed to fail" thesis — Fifteen years ago there was a widespread assumption that China could only cont… https://t.co/WiF1vd8yn4

@adam_tooze @benbawan Lots of oil comes to Germany via pipelines of other European countries (France, Italy, Nether… https://t.co/ige011AD2A

@benbawan I agree. Would make more sense if it was energy imports. Legend seems clear …

Why is the share of German oil imports invoiced in $ half that of Italy or Spain and so much lower than for France?… https://t.co/0pzQTN95hW

Xi Zhongxun pitching the concept of a special economic zone in Shenzhen to a seated Deng sometime in the 1980s.… https://t.co/ngmZPmFjEH

Hold that smile! APEC fails to issue communique for first time in 29 years. A non-event at a bit of a non-event but… https://t.co/25X1Euhkz9