Adam Tooze is a British

United Kingdom

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 historian and was Reader in Modern European Economic History at the University of Cambridge

University of Cambridge

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. In 2002, he was awarded a Philip Leverhulme Prize

Philip Leverhulme Prize

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 for Modern History. As of Summer 2010, he is a professor of history at Yale University

Yale University

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.

He is currently best known for his economic study of the Third Reich, entitled The Wages of Destruction

The Wages of Destruction

The Wages of Destruction is an award-winning non-fiction book detailing the economic history of Nazi Germany. Written by Adam Tooze, it was first published by Allen Lane in 2006....

. It was one of the winners of the Wolfson History Prize

Wolfson History Prize

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 for 2006.

Publications

• (2001), Statistics and the German State, 1900-1945: The Making of Modern Economic Knowledge (Cambridge Studies in Modern Economic History), Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001. ISBN 0-521-80318-7
• (2006), The Wages of Destruction: The Making and Breaking of the Nazi Economy
  The Wages of Destruction
  The Wages of Destruction is an award-winning non-fiction book detailing the economic history of Nazi Germany. Written by Adam Tooze, it was first published by Allen Lane in 2006....
  
  , London: Allen Lane, 2006. ISBN 0-7139-9566-1

External links

• Faculty page - Yale University
  Yale University
  Yale University is a private, Ivy League university located in New Haven, Connecticut, United States. Founded in 1701 in the Colony of Connecticut, the university is the third-oldest institution of higher education in the United States...