ADAM TOOZE

European migration (suitably defined) dwarfs all other global population flows. Europe’s pop 1500 77.7 m. Pop 2000… https://t.co/2Pci77ZpEZ

Light & sour v. heavy & sweet – know your oil with the help of fabulous infographic from @TheEconomist… https://t.co/7gOhmnRkFP

“creditor imperialism”? China snaps up another port – Hambantota – heightening Sino-Indian rivalry for influence in… https://t.co/qACrCQBxLC

Any longer than 500 m and steel cables that operate high speed elevators are likely to snap under their own weight.… https://t.co/JJbKbobLog

“The loaf” – disobedient inmates in US prisons are punished with “nutraloaf” meals so unpalatable they are a civil… https://t.co/GofNyTueLJ

"Hey, did you do the refugee experience yet?" "No, we were going to limo over after we pig out at the caviar buffet" https://t.co/1khV91BdCj

Oklahoma, Kansas, Arizona, Wisconsin and North Carolina cut income tax whilst slashing school funding… https://t.co/65wQXNf0ab

Hollowing out sovereignty? AfD in Bundestag refuses to join rest of German parties in celebrating the Elysee Treaty… https://t.co/G4QLO6YFAr

In US in 2012 8 % of young people whose parents had less than high school ed were in College v. 58% of those whose… https://t.co/zdC6TNoina

The thing to worry about may be less the shutdown than the debt ceiling which was the driver of crisis in 2011 and… https://t.co/k7ERsNoNVG

Whilst Schulz got majority in SPD’s meeting a majority of Germans at large and a large majority of young people opp… https://t.co/sb2ogvgXc9

@PhilipPlickert @faznet thank you!

Elisha Otis demonstrates first elevator safety break. @TheEconomist xmas issue had extraordinary report on lifts in… https://t.co/JiBM90ND7o

Investing like a German: @faznet @PhilipPlickert report on ECB findings of eurozone household wealth which puts Ger… https://t.co/holYAqmk45

“The loaf” – disobedient inmates in US prisons are punished with “nutraloaf” meals so unpalatable they are a civil… https://t.co/JbgWhxPCh6

European fiscal apparatus of early modern period is largely a product of war. Fiscal exactions from Voigtländer&Vot… https://t.co/puCDVucepE

Europe's great plagues. Incidence data from Voigtländer and Voth Europe’s Gifts of Mars (2013) h/t @DuncanWeldon… https://t.co/rKcoh6m2sb

The growth of the French army, 1445-1750. Carefully reworked data from John Lynn’s fantastic Giant of the Grand Sie… https://t.co/EVC8ahhIOu

St Johannis Church in Magdeburg in 1954. Nine years, after attack by RAF, 9.38 pm to 10.17 pm, 16 January 1945 – th… https://t.co/p7OwfvAh6Z

Was it demography or institutional/technical factors that explain “Europe”’s divergence in early modern period? Voi… https://t.co/sIPOMCThTj

"China and Russia are now undermining the international order from within the system by exploiting its benefits whi… https://t.co/2LLFiA5FB6

Unearthing a mass grave from the climatic battle of Lützen 1632 that claimed life of Gustavus Adolphus… https://t.co/E22uTnl8F3

Donauwörth after it was hit by USAAF at 12.30 pm 11 April 1945 and again on 19 April. Town had been designated majo… https://t.co/EMy2QyMoxk

@adam_tooze This is a reply of sorts: https://t.co/v60tz2cir7

From local carnivalesque to global violence Herrfried Münkler on logics of escalation in German religious wars and… https://t.co/E2Xl7izEwX

Münckler announces that he won’t write book about WWII or 7 year war. “Let historians do that, who like stray dogs… https://t.co/kKo0SNLtu4

Tomb of General Tilly – the "monk in armor", destroyer of Protestant Magdeburg (1631), counterreformation Taliban,… https://t.co/YJ5SlVyDbJ

Muscling in on the Maldives. China signs free trade agreement on India’s doorstep. China also owns 70 % of Maldives… https://t.co/WNqDA2iLAY

"Inter-state strategic competition, not terrorism, is now the primary concern in U.S. national security.” Driving h… https://t.co/rbFzlMalv7

Infrastructure projects are now a larger % of investment in China than at height of the 2009 stimulus. h/t… https://t.co/Yd7Rhnks7T