Adam Tooze follows the trail like no previous writer and has written a book compelling as history, as economic analysis and as political horror story. The Deluge: The Great War, America and the Remaking of the Global Order, 1916-1931 Paperback Decemby Adam Tooze (Author) 614 ratings Editors' pick Best History See all formats and editions Kindle 8.99 Read with Our Free App Audiobook 0. Over and over again, the end of the crisis has been announced, but it continues to hound us – whether in Greece or Ukraine, whether through Brexit or Trump. 2015 by Adam Tooze (Author) 594 ratings See all formats and editions Kindle Edition 9.49 Read with Our Free App Hardcover from 29.95 3 Used from 29.95 Paperback 14.23 4 Used from 15.80 19 New from 12.57 Audio CD 80.00 1 Used from 80. Gnawing away at our institutions are the many billions of dollars which were conjured up to prevent complete collapse. The Deluge: The Great War and the Remaking of Global Order 1916-1931 Paperback 5 Mar. As the appalling scope and scale of the crash was revealed, the financial institutions that had symbolised the West’s triumph since the end of the Cold War, seemed – through greed, malice and incompetence – to be about to bring the entire system to its knees.Ĭrashed is an original analysis of what happened and how we were rescued from something even worse – but at a price which continues to undermine democracy across Europe and the United States.

Ten years after World War I ended, what kind of international order had been.

A decade later its spectre still haunts us. The Deluge: The Great War and the Making of the Global Order, 1916-1931. In September 2008 the Great Financial Crisis, triggered by the collapse of Lehman brothers, shook the world.

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