Adam Tooze
Nato: July 05, 1967 – London, England, United Kingdom
Adam Tooze is a British historian and Columbia University professor whose work spans modern economic, political, and global history, from Nazi Germany and the world wars to the 2008 financial crisis and COVID-19. His notable books include The Wages of Destruction, The Deluge, Crashed, and Shutdown, with awards including the Wolfson, Los Angeles Times Book Prize, and Lionel Gelber Prize.
Biografia e Percorso dell'Autore
Adam Tooze is an English-born historian shaped by a transnational upbringing. Born in London in 1967 and raised largely in Heidelberg, he studied economics at King’s College Cambridge, spent 1989 to 1991 at the Free University Berlin, and earned a Ph.D. in economic history from the London School of Economics in 1996. After thirteen years teaching at Cambridge and a period at Yale, he moved to Columbia, where he is the Kathryn and Shelby Cullom Davis Professor of History, director of the European Institute, and chair of the Committee on Global Thought. ((https://cgt.columbia.edu/about/about-cgt/people/committee-faculty/adam-tooze/))
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Wages of Destruction
Adam Tooze
A groundbreaking economic history of Nazi Germany, challenging conventional interpretations and revealing Hitler's global ambitions and strategic decisions.
Crashed
Adam Tooze
A gripping analysis of the 2008 financial crisis and its global aftermath, reshaping our understanding of economics and politics.
Shutdown
Adam Tooze
A gripping analysis of the global economic crisis triggered by COVID-19, revealing deep systemic vulnerabilities and geopolitical tensions.
Wages of Destruction
Adam Tooze
A groundbreaking economic history of Nazi Germany, challenging conventional interpretations and revealing Hitler's global ambitions and strategic decisions.
Crashed
Adam Tooze
A gripping analysis of the 2008 financial crisis and its global aftermath, reshaping our understanding of economics and politics.
Shutdown
Adam Tooze
A gripping analysis of the global economic crisis triggered by COVID-19, revealing deep systemic vulnerabilities and geopolitical tensions.
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Voci della Community
"Historian Adam Tooze has become the go-to guide to the radical new world we’ve entered"
— The Guardian. ((
"Crashed is a bold attempt by Adam Tooze, a distinguished British-American historian, to make sense of this recent tumult"
— Evening Standard. ((
"This is an extraordinary achievement, and it places Adam Tooze in a very select company of historians indeed"
— History Today. ((
"Adam Tooze makes a strong case for looking back, and beginning to draw some conclusions"
— Reuters. ((
"Adam Tooze follows the trail like no previous writer"
— Observer. ((
"In his masterful narrative, the economic historian Adam Tooze achieves several things that no other single author has quite accomplished"
— The New York Review of Books. ((
"It is among Adam Tooze’s many virtues that he can write about such matters with authority"
— The Wall Street Journal. ((
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