ADAM TOOZE

The thinness of the Raj – In Bengal in 1907 during partition, in the Dacca and Chittagong divisions with a populati… https://t.co/JE1knowJ1P

'Mediterranean of the Future’ – Alexander Hezen’s description of the Pacific in 1853 calling on the Tsarist regime… https://t.co/GryIrSPQyM

Halibut Treaty of 1923 regulating fishing of declining Halibut stocks in Pacific btw US and Canada = first occasion… https://t.co/YFubFP8g2R

"Between the Suez crisis of 1882 and the Suez crisis of 1956, the wheel turned full circle; and in the interval the… https://t.co/P6HnWLSN6T

Up to 1913 Germany’s overseas Empire had absorbed only 24,000 emigrants and accounted for 0.5 % of German trade but… https://t.co/2EUmGgv7i4

‘Gaudy empires spatchcocked together’ – the judgement of the New Cambridge Modern History on the new imperialism. W… https://t.co/bLq9ycRUh4

'The world is harder, more warlike, more exclusive; it is also, more than ever before, one great unit in which ever… https://t.co/QGFNtKOmnH

Piercing of Alps by Mont Cenis and St Gotthard tunnels in 1871/1882 cut journey from Italy to France and Germany fr… https://t.co/ri5nAsblOD

"Down to 1850 … steel 'was almost a semiprecious material' with a world production of eighty thousand tons, of wh… https://t.co/1EAl8T0BoC

“While Mussolini and Hitler were prancing and posturing at the centre of the European stage, changes were going on… https://t.co/QMGeYD7Dni

"Looked at from the vantage-point of Dien Bien Phu, for example, Amritsar stands out with new and unaccustomed prom… https://t.co/L2mXoN4ni5

“(E)nsuring that Belt and Road only travels where it is needed” – @Lagarde of @IMFNews announces that now she too i… https://t.co/UPAF43N0gb

“ (F)ew things are more remarkable than the speed with which after 1919 the threat of radical social upheaval was b… https://t.co/7CbVqCZqAw

Jacob Epstein Torso in Metal from ‘The Rock Drill’ 1913–4 Signature work of the vorticist group, British wing of fu… https://t.co/C8rYPfFhuA

Fancy that! Whilst China’s surplus with the US grows, falling exports lead China to declare a trade deficit in Marc… https://t.co/CigMPur2tM

Unpacking the complete 120 year run of the Times held by the Marx Engels Institute in Moscow in 1930. https://t.co/P7gkbXXS63

“Etnas of industry that symbolized modernity” – C.S. Maier on the romance of steel mills in the 20th century from:… https://t.co/Uts95VxLMv

"If there was a German iron cage of modernity there was assuredly a British one too.” from @DEHEdgerton barnstormin… https://t.co/9E9pEhAb7Z

The Rise and Fall of the British Nation A Twentieth-Century History by @DEHEdgerton out in June. Cant wait!… https://t.co/W2JqHKvnyK

We need to talk about class – The confusion in American class categories is mind-numbing: 40 % of those on lowest i… https://t.co/UvtFLwWtiV

Interdependence v. independence: what first generation kids at college are aiming for is very different from those… https://t.co/4zQIOvFWsc

Public colleges in the US have a student-family-income profile you would expect. Private colleges don’t! @alv9n has… https://t.co/RfqWlKTzwT

More people went to College in the US in recent decades but completion rates for those from low income backgrounds… https://t.co/V2OJrFhgqY

Why is economics as an undergrad at subject so much less male-dominated in France and India than US and UK? fascina… https://t.co/hd5831ubrC

Well that’s one way to shift the aluminum markets. You could just take 7 % of world production out of circulation.… https://t.co/iQdthUCvCC

Proportion of econ students who were women surged from the early 1970s in the US and has since stabilized at c. 1/3… https://t.co/0ka4tQlIzW

Where men and women with economics degrees work in the UK is striking: women in public sector, men in higher paid c… https://t.co/Lw7x2sAVAg

"beta wolf", warring with workers, “union-friendly minder", "corporate governance discount" – @FT Lex’s commentary… https://t.co/onDZiIFo0n

Is bad lending a driver of the cycle? @IMFNews FSR tries to operationalize riskiness of credit allocation as driver… https://t.co/U00memMRYP

En France, les femmes sont relativement bien représentées dans les études en économie. Il faut dire que la professi… https://t.co/rj9XNfUGHY

@Jderbyshire Thank you! Very kind of you to have put this out. Only hope it lives up to expectations.

Found these 1843 photos of (ex-) #Chartist leader Henry Vincent on the @NatGalleriesSco website – as far as I know… https://t.co/YncRb84AGv

Growth in global trade in services is partly driven by financialization, but only partly. IP and Tech matter too. I… https://t.co/UtTUKedV1N