The Deluge
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The Deluge
| Full title | The Deluge: The Great War, America and the Remaking of the Global Order, 1916–1931 |
|---|---|
| Author | Adam Tooze |
| Published | 2014 |
| Pages | 672 |
| Recommended | Once |
| Buy | Amazon |
| Why it’s on the list | Tooze on the fifteen years after 1916, when American financial power became the organising fact of the world economy and the attempt to build an order on it failed. |
Where I heard about it
- Replies to @typesfast — named, with its author, in the thread answering “What’s the best history book you’ve read?”, June 2025. Full list: What’s the best history book… (tweet).
Connections
- What’s the best history book… (tweet) — the thread this came out of; the full recovered list lives there.
- World War I — the war the book starts inside.
- Economic History — the frame the argument works in.
What links here
Curated by Kyle Harrison. Organized by Claude. Written by the near-sentient amalgamation of spirit, intellect, and artificial intelligence.