The ghost at all our feasts: three lectures by Adam Tooze

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One of Zenpundit’s most influential book recommendations for me was The Wages of Destruction: The Making and Breaking of the Nazi Economy by Adam Tooze. Wages of Destruction made most other books on the Nazi complicated run German economy of 1920-1945 look infantile. I read Tooze’s newest book The Deluge: The Great War and the Remaking of Global Order 1916-1931 over July. A review is in the works. While you stay up nights waiting for that, Tooze gave three lectures at Stanford University’s Europe Center worth absorbing based on The Deluge:

  1. Making Peace in Europe 1917-1919: Brest-Litovsk and Versailles
  2. Hegemony: Europe, America and the problem of financial reconstruction, 1916-1933
  3. Unsettled Lands: the interwar crisis of agrarian Europe

The rise of the American empire 1849-1922 is the great question of our time.

[Cross-posted on Zenpundit]

6 thoughts on “The ghost at all our feasts: three lectures by Adam Tooze”

  2. The Wages of Destruction was one of the most interesting books I have ever read. And one of the saddest.

    I second that. Great book.

  3. “The rise of the American empire 1849-1922 is the great question of our time.”

    Wow, down the LCR rabbit hole once again

  4. OK …

    1922 … Washington Naval Conference? Treaty brings us to parity with England, thus the British Empire has formally yielded hegemony?

    But 1849 … Consulting Wikipedia I see only this candidate: “Regular steamboat service from the west to the east coast of the United States … .”

    I am peering down the rabbit hole.

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