I spend the weekend with my family in the Christensen vacation home in Skåne (Southern Sweden). I didn’t do any reading, but I had time to watch a fantastic lecture series on YouTube with one of my absolute favourite historians Adam Tooze.
Tooze did the lectures last year at Stanford University’s Europe Center. Watch the great lectures here:
“Making Peace in Europe 1917-1919: Brest-Litovsk and Versailles”
“Hegemony: Europe, America and the problem of financial reconstruction, 1916-1933”
“Unsettled Lands: the interwar crisis of agrarian Europe”
While I do not agree with all of Tooze’s thinking continue to think that he is one of the most inspiring historians in the world to listen to – particularly for economists. Enjoy the lectures!
PS I equally recommend Tooze’s two latest books Wages of Destruction and The Deluge. Both books give great insight not only into history, but also teaches us great lessons for today’s world.
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Update: For some reason I had missed David Frum’s excellent review of Wages of Destruction and The Deluge – and Brad DeLong’s “thoughts on David From’s review”.
samo794
/ March 23, 2015Hi, thanks for tips
George Dorgan
/ March 24, 2015Thanks Lars, this is very inspiring.
Wages of destruction is a must-read or at least your summary.
Ray Lopez
/ May 5, 2015I found Tooze too verbose in Wages of Destruction. Also he failed to hammer home his theme enough.