![]() ![]() His revisionist history sweeps across events in Europe and America, touches on the Middle East, India, and delves into the fractious relationship between China and Japan before ending at the abyss of 1931, when the Great Depression became a global catastrophe. But Tooze, a professor of history and international security studies at Yale University, aims for something more. To those familiar with the history of the First World War, this hardly is a revelation. But as Adam Tooze shows in his latest work, that shift occurred a generation earlier and before American forces had even fired a shot in what was once called the Great War. Ask Americans when their country became the world’s dominant power and chances are most will point to the hard-fought victory in the Second World War. ![]()
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