ADAM TOOZE

Until mid-1970s, North matched South in per capita output, education, and productivity. A 1969 UN report saw “no chance whatsoever… /3

#Brexit Britain poorly educated & insufficiently skilled, no wonder many people feel they lack control over their l… https://t.co/uEAuOZE2By

International students worth £25bn to universities & local economies across UK. Theresa May still wants less of them https://t.co/hJYTLsBBLc

The remarkable thing here is the low level of South Korean GDP per cap until the 1970s https://t.co/khDFZNieUW

Fair assessment. Who knew the Ayatollahs tweet! https://t.co/qBVNmDG9cY

In Heinrich August Winkler, Schäuble's Germany has found its court historian. Great piece by @adam_tooze in the @LRB https://t.co/K8VSt5KNwn

(shut down) US debt ceiling: the situation in terms of funding gap, chart Barclays @FuW_News https://t.co/iKsn7q6X4o https://t.co/y3WUgj6uKv

Conference Report – When East meets West: The Second World War in Global Perspective https://t.co/ZwKbU4PmHh https://t.co/oF7UD9pidT

@daniel_todman @Alan_Allport @jonathanfennell @JonathanBoff that is where I was going to go in response to Alan. It… https://t.co/UsBrfvgOGy

“A permissive undisciplined society. You are going to blow up” Shah of Iran on Britain 1974 after OPEC I! Remarkabl… https://t.co/3gtkGpZLZw

As e.g. of mulit-layered English nostalgia this takes some beating Rifles Local Boy 2005 referencing WWII & the Jam… https://t.co/Kp2XyCV0lK

@DuncanWeldon or like calling tunes from a pub band!

@ulyssecolonna In a hopeless strategic situation germans could build almost insurmountable tactical strength.

@ulyssecolonna yup the light weaponry figures are really striking. follows up on the MG42 point.

Good on Böckenförde’s chestnut that "free secular state lives from conditions it cannot itself guarantee” JWMüller… https://t.co/PJNkDuUZ9c

@ReassessHistory I really benefited from the reading the Canadian literature. they seem to have adopted the bottom… https://t.co/dhw8Ax024i

@ReassessHistory what should I read?

@ReassessHistory I'll admit to conflation rather than confusion.

@LlordLloyd and then something beyond

Enjoyable and thought provoking, particularly on clash of analysis/narrative style https://t.co/HW4MY0rCfL

#BestOf: You're more likely to achieve the American dream if you live in #Denmark https://t.co/yUruYr0noH… https://t.co/ncEijQZ4vW

Blitzkrieg manqué or a new kind of war? Interpreting the Allied Victory in the Normandy campaign -… https://t.co/IokmOpqy1R

EU needs urgently to address fact that Italy, main recipient of migrants right now has least capacity to absorb the… https://t.co/IRah4SbE0c

Asia, Canada and ROW have driven huge surge in foreign inv in US commercial real estate that is now quite wobbly… https://t.co/mJ7F55VkT6

“Whatever it takes” restored Eurozone as destination for foreign portfolio investment https://t.co/AKJ49dQ7Mg

Eurozone crisis and divergent trajectory of QE policies turned Europeans into big buyers of US securities… https://t.co/gFd9PLr1PB