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The Deluge de Adam Tooze

The Deluge

Autor Adam Tooze
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 5 mar 2015

Subliniem, încă de la început, că The Deluge nu este o simplă cronică militară, ci o reevaluare radicală a modului în care Primul Război Mondial a reconfigurat ierarhiile de putere. Ne-a atras atenția focalizarea autorului asupra anului 1916, momentul în care centrul de greutate al politicii internaționale s-a deplasat iremediabil către Statele Unite. Notăm cu interes cum Adam Tooze analizează colapsul imperiilor eurasiatice nu doar prin prisma bătăliilor, ci prin tensiunile economice și sociale care au forțat nașterea unei noi ordini mondiale. Comparabil cu The Great War in America de Garrett Peck în rigurozitate, volumul de față este însă actualizat pentru a oferi o perspectivă panoramică, ce include nu doar experiența americană, ci și supraviețuirea Republicii de la Weimar, revoluțiile din Rusia și China sau stabilitatea în Pacific. Spre deosebire de abordarea mai tehnică din The Cambridge History of the First World War, Adam Tooze menține un ritm narativ alert, integrând datele financiare în contextul instabilității politice. Această lucrare se plasează strategic în opera autorului între The Wages of Destruction, unde a explorat economia celui de-al Treilea Reich, și Crashed, analiza sa asupra crizei financiare moderne. The Deluge face legătura necesară, demonstrând cum incapacitatea aliaților de a stabiliza economia globală după 1918 a creat premisele conflictelor ulterioare. Este un studiu esențial despre puterea emergentă a Americii, o forță care, deși dispunea de resurse financiare și idei novatoare, a rămas adesea imprevizibilă și reticentă în a-și asuma responsabilitățile globale.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780141032184
ISBN-10: 0141032189
Pagini: 672
Dimensiuni: 128 x 195 x 35 mm
Greutate: 0.49 kg
Editura: Penguin Books
Colecția Penguin
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

De ce să citești această carte

O recomandăm cititorilor pasionați de istorie politică și macroeconomie care doresc să înțeleagă rădăcinile secolului american. Veți câștiga o perspectivă clară asupra modului în care datoriile de război și diplomația financiară au modelat lumea modernă. Este o lectură densă, dar extrem de relevantă pentru a înțelege de ce sistemul de securitate colectivă european a eșuat în perioada interbelică.

Despre autor

Adam Tooze este profesor de istorie germană modernă la Yale University, fiind recunoscut la nivel internațional pentru expertiza sa în istorie economică. Printre lucrările sale de referință se numără The Wages of Destruction, recompensată cu Premiul Wolfson, și Crashed, o istorie definitorie a crizei financiare globale. Prin The Deluge, Tooze își consolidează reputația de istoric capabil să sintetizeze forțele economice, politice și militare într-o narațiune coerentă despre transformarea ordinii mondiale în secolul XX.

Notă biografică

Adam Tooze is Barton M. Biggs Professor of History and Director of International Security Studies at Yale University. He taught for many years at the University of Cambridge. His last book, The Wages of Destruction, was universally acclaimed as one of the most important books written on the Third Reich. It was shortlisted for the Duff Cooper Prize and won both the Longman-History Today Book of the Year Prize and the Wolfson Prize for History.

Recenzii

Bold and ambitious . . . probably the best of the current books about the First World War
A remarkable new synthesis which draws on [Tooze's] two particular areas of expertise, Eurasia and especially Germany, and the global financial system revolving around London ... the great strength of his book is that he invites us to look at familiar events in unfamiliar ways ... Tooze's account brims with contemporary resonances ... He is too good a historian, however, to turn this into a simple argument for Keynesian deficit financing ... the general public and policymakers alike will - must! - turn to Adam Tooze for instruction
It is particularly refreshing to read Adam Tooze's book ... it confirms his stature as an analyst of hugely complex political and economic issues ... Tooze's book covers a huge geographical sweep ... he shows himself a formidably impressive chronicler of a critical period of modern history, unafraid of bold judgements
Adam Tooze's masterly book should be required reading for anyone who wants to truly understand the significance of the war ... Extensively researched and written with exemplary clarity, this work is as monumentally ambitious as its subject ... his powers of description and analysis range across all inhabited continents ... this is a valuable look at the ways in which the years after the war came to define the rest of the 20th century
Interesting, engaging and very readable ... Underpinning this account is an impressive facility with numbers and an ability to analyse them that is increasingly rare among historians nowadays ... he has also delivered, for the first time, ...a clear and compelling rationale as to why it is actually worth going back and looking at the era of the First World War at this particular moment in time ... The Deluge reminds us, then, why we write history and why we should read it
Tooze made his name with The Wages of Destruction . . . His study of the post-1918 era is equally impressive, explaining why the US and its allies, having defeated Germany, were unable to stabilize the world economy and build a collective security system in Europe

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WINNER OF THE LOS ANGELES TIMES PRIZE FOR HISTORY

FINANCIAL TIMES AND NEW STATESMAN BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2014

On the centenary of the outbreak of the First World War, Deluge is a powerful explanation of why the war's legacy continues to shape our world - from Adam Tooze, the Wolfson Prize-winning author of The Wages of Destruction

In the depths of the Great War, with millions of dead and no imaginable end to the conflict, societies around the world began to buckle. As the cataclysmic battles continued, a new global order was being born.

Adam Tooze's panoramic new book tells a radical, new story of the struggle for global mastery from the battles of the Western Front in 1916 to the Great Depression of the 1930s. The war shook the foundations of political and economic order across Eurasia. Empires that had lasted since the Middle Ages collapsed into ruins. New nations sprang up. Strikes, street-fighting and revolution convulsed much of the world. And beneath the surface turmoil, the war set in motion a deeper and more lasting shift, a transformation that continues to shape the present day: 1916 was the year when world affairs began to revolve around the United States.

America was both a uniquely powerful global force: a force that was forward-looking, the focus of hope, money and ideas, and at the same time elusive, unpredictable and in fundamental respects unwilling to confront these unwished for responsibilities. Tooze shows how the fate of effectively the whole of civilization - the British Empire, the future of peace in Europe, the survival of the Weimar Republic, both the Russian and Chinese revolutions and stability in the Pacific - now came to revolve around this new power's fraught relationship with a shockingly changed world.

The Deluge is both a brilliantly illuminating exploration of the past and an essential history for the present.