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The Deluge

The Great War, America and the Remaking of the Global Order, 1916-1931

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The Deluge

By: Adam Tooze
Narrated by: Ralph Lister
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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 materiel 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.

©2014 Adam Tooze (P)2014 Tantor 20th Century Military Modern Wars & Conflicts World World War I War Self-Determination Soviet Union Imperialism Interwar Period Capitalism Socialism Africa Russia Middle Ages Thought-Provoking Middle East Winston Churchill Taxation

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"Tooze's grand economic history is stimulating, persuasive, and surprisingly accessible." ( Publishers Weekly)
Comprehensive Economic Analysis • Insightful Historical Perspective • High Quality Audio • Detailed Geopolitical Narrative
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The economic analysis focuses mostly on credit markets and seem to forget that real resourses where destroyed in the war.
otherwise Great

Very interesting but also very Keynesian

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this book makes you feel like you have been on the edge of your seat for the entire 30 year. From 1914 to the end of World War II, and like you understand everything that has happened since. if clausewitz had had training as an economist, he would rather have written this book.

brilliant and irreplaceable

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I really learned a lot about an era I knew quite a bit about so totally worth it.

Extremely interesting and useful.

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Brilliant economic history review of the period from 1916-1931. Tooze writes with clarity and the narration is top notch.

A deep economic analysis of famous historic political and military events

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This book is really dense in terms of topics and I needed a bit more hand holding at times in terms of background. But in my mind if you are interested in this topic, it will definitely get you the info you need. I guess I just needed a bit more of an "Economics and Politics of WWI for Dummies" type book. But that won't stop me from reading Tooze's book on the financial crisis.

Dense...really dense

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Nice book

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Despite my disagreements with him, Tooze is a fascinating and brilliant historian. The Deluge is the best history of the early interwar period.

Epic Sweep Fascinating Choice of Periodization

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There was very little that was brand new in this narrative, but it is one of the very best synthesis I have ever read on the period. I would recommend this book to any one studying or interested in the interwar period. It provides an understanding and layout of the dynamics of international affairs as the world began its slide into the diplomacy of the 1930s. It is the single best volume on this period.

Excellent study of the period

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How the world of the 20th century evolved in the 1920s and the depression was created by the actions and errors of the governments involved.

Important view

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The Deluge is an incredibly, almost overwhelmingly expansive tour of the geo-economic-political world map towards the end of WW1 and into the Global Depression. Tooze provides powerful context to world events with narrative detail that will satisfy anyone. For it’s amazing achievements it also is perhaps a bit too wide of a view into the era. While some characters like Lloyd George and Stresemann have enough page time to exist as full characters, the side detours into Middle Eastern and Asian politics felt well researched but leave some major world figures as shadows. That all being said, it’s economy is admirable given the ambition of the bite.

A Very Wide View

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