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

Author: Adam Tooze

Narrator: Ralph Lister

Unabridged: 21 hr 57 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 11/13/2014

Synopsis

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 entered 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.

About Adam Tooze

Adam Tooze is the Barton M. Biggs Professor of History and codirector of International Security Studies at Yale University. He won the 2002 Philip Leverhulme Prize for Modern History. His groundbreaking work The Wages of Destruction: The Making and Breaking of the Nazi Economy won the Wolfson Prize and the Longman Prize, was shortlisted for the Duff Cooper and H Soz Kult prizes, was an Economist book of the year, and has been translated into German, Italian, Portuguese, and Bulgarian. For thirteen years he was a member of the history faculty at the University of Cambridge. In 2009, he was appointed to the academic panel charged by the Bundesfinanzministerum (Federal Finance Ministry) with writing the ministry's history in the period of the Third Reich. He has responsibility for the volume dealing with public debt.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Mike on July 13, 2019

This was an excellent and comprehensive examination of America's ascent to the center of geopolitics in the WWI and post-WWI world. Of course we all know how this song ends: Depression, isolationism, rise of Fascism, WWII. But the path to get there was much more interesting than what we learned in s......more

Goodreads review by Mark on July 31, 2024

Readers of the February 17, 1941 issue of Life magazine were treated to a lengthy editorial written by its publisher, Henry Luce. In it, the Republican internationalist denounced the isolationist tendencies of the American people and called upon them instead to embrace their nation’s responsibilitie......more

Goodreads review by Olethros on January 16, 2018

-Hay palos para todos, pero lo del presidente Woodrow Wilson es una auténtica paliza.- Género. Historia. Lo que nos cuenta. El libro El diluvio (publicación original: The Deluge, 2014) intenta explicar las razones (mediante hechos, eventos y situaciones acontecidas en la época) por las que los Estados......more

Goodreads review by A.L. on September 09, 2018

The simplified version of history I’ve always heard goes something like this: “after WWI, the US retreated into isolationism, went through the Roaring Twenties and the Great Depression, and then got involved in WWII.” Of course, the real story is a lot more complicated, and Tooze did a good job expl......more

Goodreads review by Pieter on September 25, 2017

If one were to be a fly against the wall of the Versailles palace in 1919. What were US president Roosevelt's reasons to design a new, liberal world order? Which countries supported him and which were against? It is clear that the seeds of WW II were sown during that time. The Fourteen Points may ha......more

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