Adam Tooze

Adam Tooze (born in 1967) is a British historian who is a professor at Columbia University. Previously, he was Reader in Modern European Economic History at the University of Cambridge and professor at Yale University.

After graduating in economics from Cambridge, Tooze studied at FU Berlin before moving to LSE for a doctorate in economic history.

In 2002, he was awarded a Philip Leverhulme Prize for Modern 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

External links

• "Adam Tooze is Incoming Director of the European Institute", Columbia U. 2015