The two books narrate the arc of American economic supremacy from its beginning to its apogee. His planetary history encompasses democratization in Japan and price inflation in Denmark the birth of the Argentine far right as well as the Bolshevik seizure of power in Russia. Yet Tooze's perspective is anything but narrowly American. output overtook that of the entire British empire. They amount together to a new history of the 20th century: the American century, which according to Tooze began not in 1945 but in 1916, the year U.S. And so it is again with his economic history of the First World War and its aftermath, The Deluge. So it was with Adam Tooze’s astonishing economic history of World War II, The Wages of Destruction. Very rarely, you read a book that inspires you to see a familiar story in an entirely different way.
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