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The Great War, America and the Remaking of the Global Order, 1916-1931
by Adam Tooze
In the depths of the Great War, with millions dead and no imaginable end to the conflict, societies around the world began to buckle. The heart of the financial system shifted from London to New York. The infinite demands for men and matériel reached into countries far from the front. The strain of the war ravaged all economic and political assumptions, bringing unheard-of changes in the social and industrial order.
A century after the outbreak of fighting, Adam Tooze revisits this seismic moment in history, challenging the existing narrative of the war, its peace, and its aftereffects. From the day the United States enters the war in 1917 to the precipice of global financial ruin, Tooze delineates the world remade by American economic and military power.
Tracing the ways in which countries came to terms with America's centrality - including the slide into fascism - The Deluge is a chilling work of great originality
that will fundamentally change how we view the legacy of World War I.
"Starred Review. Tooze's grand economic history is stimulating, persuasive, and surprisingly accessible." - Publishers Weekly
"Starred Review. A lucid, first-rate history of the results of a war whose beginning a century ago we are busily commemorating." - Kirkus
"Bold and ambitious... The Deluge is the work of a fine historian at the peak of his powers, formidable in its range and command of the material, written in strong, muscular prose.... The best of the current deluge of books about the first world war." - The Observer (UK)
"An utterly hynotic history of Europe's fragile interwar peace.... What Tooze has done - a huge, formidable achievement - is to reconstruct a vast global web, and to show how the slightest vibrations on its threads had consequences everywhere, almost regardless of individual fears and hates or venomous ideologies. The breadth of his scholarship also frighteningly illuminates the fragility of peace." - The Telegraph (UK)
"[Tooze's] new book confirms his stature as an analyst of hugely complex political and economic issues…Here, as in his earlier work, Tooze shows himself a formidably impressive chronicler of a critical period of modern history, unafraid of bold judgments." - The Sunday Times (UK)
"Tooze's book is an invaluable account of why the US and its allies, having defeated Germany in 1918, were unable thereafter to stabilise the world economy and build a collective security system." - The Financial Times (UK)
"Amid all the current commemorative news, 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." - Literary Review (UK)
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Adam Tooze is Barton M. Biggs Professor of History and Co-Director of International Security Studies at Yale University.
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