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@JspStJulien Im not sure I agree at all with that diagnosis, Given circumstances majority of these folks migrated out of.

RT @MrTimDunn: On the way in to work on the Tube this morning, I was the only one using the 140m-long Waterloo travelator. It’s eerie (and…

RT @gyrgir3: Kaiser Wilhelm II, 1913 (colorized) https://t.co/TGoW8jrKOU

@jleuchtman @DrPippaM Yeah I know it seems very weird! But I liked the flow of arrows on the map.

@Chris_Hoeland Add up you figures and 150 million seems spot on. I agree the map numbers are out of date. Just used it for illustration 🙂

General Helmuth von Moltke was influential in lobbying parliamentto adopt world time in1893in order to facilitate military planning. https://t.co/cqzxH8qH3i

People German origin overseas 1914: 20,000 in German colonies 200,000+ in Brazil 1816-1914 5.5 m to United States bpb.de/gesellschaft/m… https://t.co/WVlNRKQwZO

What do people die of? The giant Lancet database is quite something! Yellow and blue are diseases of poverty thelancet.com/journals/lance… https://t.co/UFXEnFTgW6

“Völkerdünger” – fertilizer of peoples = phrase used by German nationalists in late 19th century to refer to German emigrants who lost their German identity and assimilated to new culture. https://t.co/sghu9jwWns

Yes this is a railway platform in Germany in early 20th c. But NO it is not what you are thinking. Ruhleben station in Berlin opened in 1890 specifically as a transit station to channel East European migrants direct to ocean ports for migration overseas. bz-berlin.de/artikel-archiv… https://t.co/2cRXzxWyRc

Public-private/blended finance modes of financing for development are a fascinating phenom. @DanielaGabor is calling the model the "Wall Street Consensus” v. Washington Consensus of 1990s. sciencedirect.com/science/articl… osf.io/preprints/soca… https://t.co/t9Yi66I7fR

Just stumbled on this map of the 1896 election. Blue is the populist anti gold standard William Jennings Bryan. Red is McKinley the Republican. Shouldn’t read too much into it, but striking nevertheless. global.oup.com/us/companion.w… https://t.co/wzNcSoJjDt

Between 1840 and the 1930s 150 million people (world pop in 1900 = 1.6 bn) left their homes to resettle -> huge upheaval and background for formation of exclusionary ethnic nationalisms. https://t.co/6V4MqGgVQ4

Development assistance for health is vital for health spending in low income countries. It surged 2000-2010 but since then has stagnated. What is best to read on this? @IHME_UW healthdata.org/sites/default/… https://t.co/hUxsWtmCf5

In Sketches from a Life George F. Kennan describes an exiled Mexican bishop officiating in Cologne cathedral in 1928 at Whitsuntide. This seems fascinating. Transatlantic Catholic connections. One for @GChamedes perhaps? https://t.co/ONrLsA4lnT

@_Eric_Reinhart @IHME_UW I think you may be right about the long overdue response to AIDS driving the surge after 2000.

In the patchwork of developing country sovereign debt, some low income borrowers stand out for their heavy reliance on private commercial lenders via bank loans or bonds. Cote d’Ivoire, Angola, Chad,Zambia, spglobal.com/ratings/en/res… https://t.co/WKPXQGQXYB

Development assistance for health, which is crucial in lowest income countries, surged impressively 2000-2010. Over last decade it has stagnated. Why? USA is part of bigger story. What is good to read on this? @IHME_UW healthdata.org/sites/default/… https://t.co/UQLBCj5oOW

2020 saw the highest death toll in the Sahel insurgency: 6,256 dead on all sides. Up 30% v. 2019. 1.7 m displaced. France wants to run down its commitment. Governments in region contemplating negotiating with jihadis. @neiLmunshi ft.com/content/8adf00… https://t.co/D3wfV5njCu

Grotesque imbalance in health spending is an urgent issue of global equity. It is surely, also, a giant economic boom waiting to happen. Imagine the scale of the potential surge in middle income countries! @IHME_UW healthdata.org/sites/default/… https://t.co/kFvtsazQdc

The Learjet once the ultimate swank status symbols is being phased out. bloomberg.com/news/articles/… https://t.co/vSTXFU3jVz

"Democracy, like all other theories of sovereignty such as divine right, the rule of the best, or the rule of the competent, is based on a mythological subject that does not exist; in the case of democracy that subject is called “the people”." Dylan Riley newstatesman.com/ideas/2021/02/… https://t.co/drtmK5sVy9

Total global health spending reached $7.9 trillion (7.8–8.0) in 2017, the most recent year for which data were available = 10% of global GDP. Per capita spending is 50* larger in rich countries. @IHME_UW healthdata.org/sites/default/… https://t.co/CeB4S0Q23b

@PRoufos @rjbaldwin63 @pmpoc Beautifully defined!

RT @ArtofWarScholar: Art of War Scholar MAJ David Millikan previews his wargame: Modeling Post-Civil War Reconstruction. His thesis models…

RT @NathanTankus: Your Weekend Read is my deep dive into the very obscure details of how National Central Banks in the eurozone function. T…

RT @DavidMHopkin: @adam_tooze Jacob Grimm, who was secretary to the elector of Hesse-Kassel at Vienna, was photographed in 1847 https://t.c…

GOP/Dems Enemies or political opponents?-When YouGov meets Carl Schmitt washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/… https://t.co/HNSQK88jcD

Fantastic thread this from @GChamedes on Draghi's politics. twitter.com/GChamedes/stat…

RT @njtmulder: Inspired by Sonenscher's letter to the LRB https://t.co/9pbk0PQw9k

RT @njtmulder: Historians of political thought: Brexit is about re-aligning sovereignty and government Economic historians: that's fine bu…

Extraordinary interview with Friedrich Hayek on John Maynard Keynes: "Keynes was Brilliant, but Economics was Only a Sideline for Him." "Not well read. Not a master of the subject …”. And so on and so forth … breathtaking! blog.supplysideliberal.com/post/2021/2/10… https://t.co/rSHm2qnTjw

RT @kadonkey: B707 airframe still awesome. The first aircraft flew in August 1956 and the initial production Stratotanker was delivered to…

RT @FedeItaliano76: The Art Deco radio station in Kootwijk, Netherlands, designed in 1920 by Dutch architect Julius Maria Luthmann https://…

Schlözer is such a fascinating 18th century German figure. One of pioneers of "statistics" but also a Braudelian social history. twitter.com/Benedek_M_Varg…

If you are into operational history, this is one for you! Fascinating stuff. twitter.com/WW2TV/status/1…