ADAM TOOZE

Xi v. Deng: The great initiator of reform relegated to the distant past in latest show of political art in China. F… https://t.co/7dcWl2koWM

In WWI purchasing power matters: In 1914 British net foreign assets stood at 180% GDP, French 100% GDP v. German 50… https://t.co/wK3ICMxYuL

A long run of UK wealth inequality data looking back as far as 1670 puts the moment of surging inequality since the… https://t.co/NmHooYibiJ

Some thoughts on History and Brexit in the Observer @kingshistory @kingscbh @kingsartshums The idea of deep contin… https://t.co/lw7mkbJ96p

Materialschlacht: Entente and US advantage in WWI production race was above all in the offensive weapons that would… https://t.co/sNs8d0CkiM

“The Quad”: As the effort to contain China gathers momentum we may be hearing more about the entente btw US, India,… https://t.co/29mdmVRIGZ

It was not until 1970 that world exports recovered to the trend growth line of the pre 1914 period.… https://t.co/v3iWfgw7qS

That was another edition of Chartstravaganza. Please recommend us to your friends. Informative AND fun AND free …… https://t.co/Y5r1dpCRN6

The UK is living Brexit through a pastiche of irrelevant historical imagery and associations. When will reality bit… https://t.co/vCkzWJsYXU

How after 1939 “Great War” was replaced in English by World War I. In German the use of word (Erster) Weltkrieg was… https://t.co/7zkz1F2skX

Europe’s first continent-wide refugee crisis was WWI. c. 3 m in W. Europe and c. 8m in the East. Extraordinary data… https://t.co/YX7XuwarP6

Billboard celebrating Gaza’s heroic first responders outside Boston is taken down under pressure… https://t.co/pSJG3QuVYW

Like the "failed to fail" thesis — Fifteen years ago there was a widespread assumption that China could only cont… https://t.co/WiF1vd8yn4

@adam_tooze @benbawan Lots of oil comes to Germany via pipelines of other European countries (France, Italy, Nether… https://t.co/ige011AD2A

@benbawan I agree. Would make more sense if it was energy imports. Legend seems clear …

Why is the share of German oil imports invoiced in $ half that of Italy or Spain and so much lower than for France?… https://t.co/0pzQTN95hW

Xi Zhongxun pitching the concept of a special economic zone in Shenzhen to a seated Deng sometime in the 1980s.… https://t.co/ngmZPmFjEH

Hold that smile! APEC fails to issue communique for first time in 29 years. A non-event at a bit of a non-event but… https://t.co/25X1Euhkz9

The EU’s merchandise trade surplus is largely offset by its very large import bill for oil and petroleum.… https://t.co/LUYzqKvw74

Black Country: map of intensity of coal use across Britain from the 1907 census of production. One for @DEHEdgerton… https://t.co/bYq6Ci5Btz

Germany’s blue-collar right-wing disturbs the DGB: In Bavaria’s Landtag elections 14.5% trade union members voted… https://t.co/Qwb3gvlsdh

(TH): Kritik an #HartzIV kommt ein wenig weiter in der Politik an. Dank Ausdauer Verbände, Initiativen, Betroffene… https://t.co/Xkh0JvIS84

The balance of global GDP has irrevocably shifted to the EM. But the expansion of dollar-borrowing has "effectively… https://t.co/ZHQyRar2sm

@adam_tooze @NickCohen4 @bfcarlson I visited that same museum in October and had similar thoughts. In one room ther… https://t.co/XAW2bYM7oV

This thread by @bfcarlson on politics of Chinese art exhibitions is FANTASTiC. https://t.co/q3LCOQ9ize

"British history is one of radical discontinuity, and not quite what it is supposed to be.” @DEHEdgerton shreds the… https://t.co/6yI7tvFxnx

Imagine if the EU had truly common embassy and consular service, it could be present in every major city in the US.… https://t.co/VIJO7sMdNT

And if I might add another to this #twitterstorians conversation look at the fantastic piece by @DEHEdgerton in tod… https://t.co/dePiP8zFvN

The idea of deep continuity in British history is absurd. We’ve always been in flux Read this great piece by… https://t.co/iDhgZL3elq

Rough rule of thumb as to the orders of magnitude of our extraordinary world: global population grows by 80 m peopl… https://t.co/rYyB0i1KjY

Are Danish embassies particularly swanky? Certainly its spending per capita on its diplomatic missions is the highe… https://t.co/VPJMpXmQhr

The price of sovereignty: There are half a million Germans for every one of its embassies v. 18,000 Maltese. Diplom… https://t.co/i30g3sXoaO