Adam Tooze, History, Columbia University

2020: A World Crisis?

Thursday, November 12, 4pm
Online via Zoom

 

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ADAM TOOZE is the Kathryn and Shelby Cullom Davis Professor of History at Columbia University. From a start in modern German history with a special focus on the history of economics and economic history his interests have widened to take in a range of themes in political, intellectual and military history, across a canvass stretching from Europe across the Atlantic. He is the author of Statistics and the German State 1900-1945: The Making of Modern Economic Knowledge, Wages of Destruction: The Making and Breaking of the Nazi Economy, The Deluge: The Great War and the Remaking of the Global Order, 1916-1931, and most recently, Crashed: How a Decade of Financial Crises Changed the World.

Due to COVID-19, all Havens Wright Center events were hosted online via Zoom.