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RT @juergenzimmerer: Spannend, gerade der Artikel "Krise" aus den "Geschichtlichen Grundbegriffen" ist übersetzt und im "Journal of the His…

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RT @AlexAlmeida2020: Seconded. Superb, updated synthesis of several decades of scholarship on the 1944 Normandy campaign by @adam_tooze. ht…

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RT @MarcCatapano: Adam Tooze Military Historian? – today's fantastic piece on the Western Allies reliance on overwhelming fire power to d…

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RT @RyanNoordally: I'm wary of #WW2 historians using #Blitzkrieg, and I would have disagreed about Passendale being more relevant to #DDay…

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@juergenzimmerer Hi Juergen any chance you can follow me so that I can DM you. Thanks.

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RT @adelaigue: L’essai du jour, à lire. Recommandé en particulier à @Michel_Goya et @RyanNoordally, aussi @mbourlet, et tous autres, c’est…

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Calling all experts on the French military 1930-1950s – and that includes Grey Anderson – who I know is lurking out there somewhere! twitter.com/SimoneWeil1930…

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RT @Mark3Ds: @adam_tooze @philklotzbach An earlier post of the ferocity of the fighting in #WWII in NW Europe 1944-45 https://t.co/2DrGVuo2…

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@ThabitSenior Cool. Thank you! Fascinating cite.

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RT @StilichoReads: This is a wonderful article on the fighting in Europe in after D-Day, touching on everything from the historigraphy of t…

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Today we commemorate and celebrate the anniversary of the D-Day landing. But the historiography of the Normandy campaign is dominated by the sluggish advance that followed. Chartbook #126 on Blitzkrieg manqué or a new kind of warfare. adamtooze.substack.com/p/chartbook-12… https://t.co/gBAoChPKpA

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The Normandy campaign launched on June 6 1944 can be situated in relation to the Blitzkrieg of early WWII, or in relation to the Sommes or Passchendaele (uppermost in British minds). But it also points forward to the nuclear battlefield. Chartbook #126 adamtooze.substack.com/p/chartbook-12… https://t.co/FjFkMQLc6t

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Today a day for D-Day memorialization. As @philklotzbach points out meteorology was key to an ultra-complex military endeavor. See Chartbook #126 on the new kind of war waged in Normandy. adamtooze.substack.com/p/chartbook-12… twitter.com/philklotzbach/…

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Interesting this on the waning influence of Ukrainian tycoons and the primacy of state and civil society action in 2022 v. Oligarchic mobilization in 2014. ft.com/content/1fd543… https://t.co/a93ui26Yp2

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Without energy and food Japan’s inflation is still less than 1 %. bloomberg.com/news/articles/… https://t.co/lJYmKorPvn

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Chartbook #126 just dropped. For the D-Day anniversary I refreshed my essay on the 1944 campaign. Blitzkrieg manquée or a new kind of firepower war? In light of Ukraine it has a new resonance. adamtooze.substack.com/p/chartbook-12… https://t.co/shTEXeIGzs

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Tanzania to sign the Sh70 trillion Lindi LNG project this week. initial agreements with exploration companies are about to be finalized. Does Tanzania have institutional structures to avoid resource curse? @TheChanzo thechanzo.com/2022/06/06/the… https://t.co/D6baMF9Q1O

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RT @MenthorQpro: Here are the waiting times for vessels at the Port of Shanghai easing. Engine starting to move. Saudi Aramco raised its ke…

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RT @IHSMarkitPMI: China's services business activity continued to fall markedly in May with the Caixin China General Services #PMI at 41.4,…

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Martin Luther is an 8 NHP traction engine built in November 1895 in Leeds, UK shipped to Namibia to serve German Schutztruppen to replace Ox carts that were no longer viable due to drought and overgrazing. Abandoned in the desert of Skeleton Coast. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Lu… https://t.co/sGuTyJSdce

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"From the very moment” Stuart Hall "watched the shoreline of Port Antonio in Jamaica receding into the distance", he was shadowed by the question of whether he would return. Chartbook #125 on diasporic thought adamtooze.substack.com/p/chartbook-12… https://t.co/tscFzeWU1q

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@juergenzimmerer @blaetter Hi Juergen I am trying to track down your talk. Any chance you could dm or email me draft/text/link? thanks.

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“… identity is not a set of fixed attributes, the unchanging essence of the inner self, but a constantly shifting process of positioning … a never-completed process of becoming” Chartbook 125 on Stuart Hall’s Familiar Stranger adamtooze.substack.com/p/chartbook-12… https://t.co/Ke2o5MDi4v

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Chartbook #125 on “displacement” and “erasure” in cultural theorist Stuart Hall’s remarkable memoir, Familiar Stranger. adamtooze.substack.com/p/chartbook-12… https://t.co/KCT0Ygyuk1

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Most of the ECB’s 25-person governing council are expected to support a proposal to create a bond-buying programme to prevent borrowing costs for member states, such as Italy, from spiralling out of control ft.com/content/4d2c98… https://t.co/FKq2FaYETA

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RT @SharonLaneTEES: Astonishing graphic in Sunday Times. Just look at the North East's cumulative growth since 2010 compared with rest of…

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RT @gfkkb: Loved the final paragraph of @adam_tooze’s latest chartbook newsletter on Stuart Hall. A Life Between Two Islands is a phenomena…

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RT @DragiOtter: „Silence, exile and cunning are all forms of agency, a muted agency, but agency nevertheless. They are modes of positioning…

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"Janet Yellen has denied claims she wanted Joe Biden to scale back the size of his $1.9tn Covid stimulus package last year over fears it could stoke inflation.” Well this is getting juicy! ft.com/content/35161e… https://t.co/GsWfft7hvK

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Chartbook #125 just dropped: on Stuart Hall’s Diasporic Thought and his remarkable memoir, Familiar Stranger adamtooze.substack.com/p/chartbook-12… https://t.co/oQf8u188Ny

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RT @Shahinvallee: Familiar Stranger – by Stuart Hall, my hero. Thanks @adam_tooze for giving him justice! Beautiful review/essay https://t.…

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RT @Jderbyshire: This is a very rich meditation by @adam_tooze on a wonderful book twitter.com/shahinvallee/s…

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Chartbook #125 just dropped: on Stuart Hall’s Diasporic Thought and his remarkable memoir Familiar Stranger adamtooze.substack.com/publish/post/5… https://t.co/7C4Fo6pZa0

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Hurricane, super bad feeling, storm clouds – US CEOs and key asset allocators are not optimistic about the economic prospects. bloomberg.com/news/articles/… https://t.co/4KH7VjBKzE

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Whereas discussions with European nations about the Indo-Pacific during the Obama administration were “difficult, challenging, often suspicious,” they are now “deeply productive,” Kurt Campbell bloomberg.com/news/articles/… Full text by Campbell here: csis-website-prod.s3.amazonaws.com/s3fs-public/ev… https://t.co/WMDwICumzk

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Lloyd Blankfein of Goldman Sachs pushes back on negativity on US economy coming from Jamie Dimon and Elon Musk. bloomberg.com/?sref=wOrDP8KX https://t.co/zNzWzeCZoc

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