Adam Tooze is a professor of history at Columbia University. He is the author of “Shutdown: How Covid Shook the World’s Economy,” and writes the Chartbook newsletter. April 15, 2025 ...

A conversation with Greg Grandin about his groundbreaking new book America, América: A New History of the New World. The “Visscher Map of the New World” including North and South America ...

His "extraordinarily ambitious" book doesn't provide the entire history of the New World, as its subtitle promises. Even such key events as 1846–48's Mexican-American War "happen offstage." ...

The book’s concluding paragraph is worth quoting: “As historians, we are always at the mercy of the material that has come down to us and the gaps and biases it contains. We may vent our frustration ...

Assuming that the overall effect of America’s new tariffs is to chill the world economy, global trade and capital flows will fall. Mr Trump is due to visit the kingdom on May 13th.