ADAM TOOZE

Manufacturing is at the heart of the decline of labour’s share in US GDP – both the decline of the sector and the s… https://t.co/SNE1QGQeIz

Asia dominates the tall building construction lead with China alone accounting for 84 out of 128 200m+ buildings co… https://t.co/54mvXdvIS5

Exclude computers, pharmaceuticals, and medical devices and you get a real measure of the problems of US manufactur… https://t.co/QuRa3y0gWS

The Rise and Fall of America’s Big Military – Looking forward to discussing later a fascinating paper by J. Mittels… https://t.co/Sn0v6v6guV

"By the early 2000s, forty percent of every discretionary dollar in the federal budget was spent with private contr… https://t.co/RQ4X7tMKmY

#OTD 1461, the battle of Towton. C.60k+ engaged C.28k killed So many tales from battlefields of rivers running red,… https://t.co/o7xY4FMowO

Their books are stacked one on top of the other on my nightstand. @merwincnsrvncy Big treat of early 2018 came in… https://t.co/ERkruuN1Vi

What Eisenhower wants – East German propaganda against West German rearmament staged on war ruins in East Berlin in… https://t.co/RgmHSkpbVo

Don’t think I can remember hearing a more wide-ranging, fluent or entertaining historical speaker than A.G. Hopkins… https://t.co/EAxk5eEcST

A.G. Hopkins posing the question, where does the Atlantic world historiography go in the 19th century? What would a… https://t.co/kOzOI0OzS3

Listening to A.G. Hopkins in full flow on his magnificent new book on American empire citing Justin DuRivage’s fund… https://t.co/dhKhJDrN5e

A penny for your thoughts! Schacht looks like he wishes he were somewhere else as Hitler takes a report from an und… https://t.co/68LBok4Pof

Leuna-Benzin. BASF as core component of IG Farben celebrating the conversion of hard coal into fluid power an achie… https://t.co/zUGrHoc3vP

@joesmith323 Yes. That is a widespread anglo-american myth. Didn’t quite work out like that.

Mercedes über allies! This was Mercedes-Benz featured ad in the journal of Goering’s Four Year Plan for xmas 1939-1… https://t.co/piTcSaMMF3

Deutschland muss leben und went wir sterben müssen – Germany must live even if we must die. Nazi Germany embracing… https://t.co/cuU66FEto6

Grandpa wore the King’s uniform. Father served the Führer. I prefer civilian. Young West Germans protest rearmament… https://t.co/GWPWNtdYj0

Selling the Bundeswehr – volunteer for West Germany's new panzer forces (1960) this time with M48 Pattons… https://t.co/aULGacJm14

Germans read excitedly about the reintroduction of military service in March 1935 in violation of Versailles… https://t.co/qOokusNlfh

December 1931 John Knott, “Urgent Letter to Santa Claus” – Earth to Santa: I must have some credit or else …… https://t.co/IpXrFCpv9l

We now live in a world where an officially socialist country, #Vietnam, tells the US, an officially capitalist coun… https://t.co/fOo1vhPu7e

How Germany voted in the 1925 Presidential election – the entire Eastern 2/3 of country for Paul von Hindenburg.… https://t.co/pWBYlmRksF

The juxtaposition of Weimar’s commercialized modernity and the competing authoritarian appeals of Hindenburg and Hi… https://t.co/NNpy0UPRuU

This is what a conspiracy looks like – straight out of Weimar central casting – Franz von Papen and Kurt von Schlei… https://t.co/4gq6MSBugM

October 1935 Mussolini: The Man Who Took the Lid Off (David Low) – first tweeted this in August 2016. It has a rath… https://t.co/G2X8ubfStF

Connecting the Congo: DP World wins contract to build deep water port at mouth of Congo river at Banana – crucial f… https://t.co/R0Om0R14vi

“What matters is speed; speed in innovation, speed in execution, speed in smart regulation,” – how European busine… https://t.co/joMQiJynhW

“Liu He is now in charge of the economy and he is already pushing us to open up” – the outward face of Xi’s new reg… https://t.co/j15PZThfv1

In last week the Treasury placed a record of just shy of $300bn in debt without causing stress in bond market. In f… https://t.co/Ju8eEVBfJr