ADAM TOOZE

The prelude to the US civil war was an "unparalleled rise in the value of” slave assets. Btw 1805 and 1860 pop of s… https://t.co/V6eoekAAMe

@Djbawlah Fair point. the language clearly arises from a series of other narratives that this story is embedded in.… https://t.co/mqifd2T4kL

As China’s railway system has undergone massive expansion since 1990, speeds, traffic density and productivity appe… https://t.co/z1a6IDFZc5

It may shock you to learn that Disneyland can, in fact, afford to pay its workers a living wage, but it chooses not… https://t.co/4K41WGI8gs

Across states of the Confederacy in 1860s share of white income due to slaves varied btw 17.4 % in Virginia and 41.… https://t.co/RuqEA5sUUr

Depreciation of German public capital stock since reunification. Latest data by way of @KeineWunder . As André poin… https://t.co/vEslYeLXxb

Is the shifting balance of power in Chinese economy from state to private the background to Xi’s Jinping political… https://t.co/KpHTmBNACe

Spithead review of Royal Navy in 1953 on occasion of coronation – 5 carriers, 300 total ships including Commonwealt… https://t.co/0fD9EChHsW

No Chinese miracle! Taken at face value these @WorldBank data suggest disastrous decline in TFP growth in China sin… https://t.co/wG92XsS0XJ

Reparations and other transfers: Relative to GNP, France’s payments to Germany after Franco-Prussian war in 1870s a… https://t.co/FbDp44edSC

@merilynmoos the link is in the tweet.

Word of the day: "úht-cearu" – the worries that gather & prey as one lies sleepless before dawn (Old English; "earl… https://t.co/Y8NmqQfn9b

@SFFFan42 by means of editorial slippage. oops

“We are seeing actual coal-fired generation power plants being built in other countries” – US exports of coal to Eu… https://t.co/4Lh2iDQnW4

Pattern of funding for America’s growing deficits is shifting from price insensitive central banks to twichtier mar… https://t.co/4mErWBRKZT

Nancy Cunard’s Poem, Zeppelins on the first WWI bombing raids "I saw the people climbing up the street Maddened wit… https://t.co/rDLKUrDf7M

The plot thickens on the Horn of Africa: Djibouti seizes control of container port from Dubai Ports. Djibouti likel… https://t.co/09Js8VtO84

The huge expansion in China’s high speed rail network is one of the great infrastructure achievements of our age. 1… https://t.co/cLHd4Ueq09

Any chance of a RT please!?! Taking on the @Since1664 Yomp at the end of May in aid of the @theRMcharity – 103 mile… https://t.co/XqqPYrTJyd

Day Zero for Cape Town’s Water Supply is now set as 7 July! 50 liters per person is now the absolute limit. This is… https://t.co/tMJzsA3roc

Congratulations, @DukePress! Archives of Asian Art has been selected in the jacket and cover category for the 2018… https://t.co/3HI9BQ0w1Z

@curegian @nicolas_veron @nybooks @yanisvaroufakis Hi @curegian I hope you are writing a review yourself. Have you… https://t.co/4f2x0A8Mrx

China is the largest country in the world seeing substantial expansion of its rail system. The network has more tha… https://t.co/i3gTQGfmn7

Once you weight the averages by households rather than pounds, the experience of UK society in last decades is even… https://t.co/hjRXsN03JS

Women liked the Zeppelins, too. 16 February 1909. @jclaramaier @adam_tooze @BirteFoerster https://t.co/EwOTG8k0MP https://t.co/WwJMpfD8s7

Though total forest areas remain large, forest fragmentation across Latin America, Africa and Pacific may be reachi… https://t.co/P6rhfMHolL

Extraordinary new research monitoring shipping movements shows that 55 % of surface of oceans was fished in 2016 =… https://t.co/RrISkvlAOb

H.G Wells The War in the Air (1908) Germany’s new air fleet – Wells was responding directly to the early flights of… https://t.co/TyB8JdYFPV

Palm oil plantations which cause massive environmental damage and disputes over land rights are hot button issue in… https://t.co/q1UwC7P9I4

Pakistan is the most dangerous place to be born in the world. 45.6 babies out of 1000 die before end of their first… https://t.co/QM40LVt8bb

Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States and the “patriotism deficit” – a bill passing through Congress… https://t.co/ybohz3ZRvi

We have digitized the Ormesby Psalter [MS. Douce 366] in all of its shimmering detail and exquisite craft.… https://t.co/p2aSThZFaQ

Indonesia is gearing up to contain the threat of “fire season” which in 2015 resulted in emissions equivalent to th… https://t.co/F8qwGiivFA

Financing of U.S. gov deficit is changing. US "will have to scramble to finance trn $ deficits as far as the eye ca… https://t.co/VFl0Sa4IjN