Adam Tooze (born in 1967) is a British historian and was Reader in Modern European Economic History at the University of Cambridge and professor at Yale University. In 2002, he was awarded a Philip Leverhulme Prize for Modern History. As of Summer 2015, he is a professor of history at Columbia University.
After graduating in economics from Cambridge, Tooze studied at FU Berlin before moving to LSE for a doctorate in economic history.
He is currently best known for his economic study of the Third Reich, The Wages of Destruction, which was one of the winners of the Wolfson History Prize for 2006.
Publications
- (2001), Statistics and the German State, 1900-1945: The Making of Modern Economic Knowledge (Cambridge Studies in Modern Economic History), Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001. ISBN 0-521-80318-7
- (2006), The Wages of Destruction: The Making and Breaking of the Nazi Economy, London: Allen Lane, 2006. ISBN 0-7139-9566-1
- (2014), The Deluge: The Great War and the Remaking of Global Order, London: Allen Lane, 2014. ISBN 9781846140341
References
External links
- Faculty page - Yale University
- Works by or about Adam Tooze in libraries (WorldCat catalog)