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Adam Tooze

出生: 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.

传记与作者历程

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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The transition narrative is reassuring because it suggests that we have done something like this before
-Trouble Transitioning
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To formulate and articulate those, the Democrats need politicians, not algorithms
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We can use the past tense because, whatever happens in the election, Bidenism is over
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If we keep to our current course, sabotage is coming
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As far as Europe is concerned, an alien space invasion isn’t an implausible model for Covid
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"Crashed is a bold attempt by Adam Tooze, a distinguished British-American historian, to make sense of this recent tumult"

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"This is an extraordinary achievement, and it places Adam Tooze in a very select company of historians indeed"

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"In his masterful narrative, the economic historian Adam Tooze achieves several things that no other single author has quite accomplished"

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"It is among Adam Tooze’s many virtues that he can write about such matters with authority"

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