Table of Contents

Preface xv
chapter 1 The Beginning of a New Century
chapter 2 Politics and Society, 1890-1914
chapter 3 The First World War
chapter 4 Peacemaking
chapter 5 The Era of Stabilization
chapter 6 The Economic Crisis and the Rise of Nazism
chapter 7 Toward the Inevitable Conflict
chapter 8 The Second World War
chapter 9 Postwar Uncertainties
chapter 10 Reconstruction and Revolt: The 1950s
chapter 11 Europe's Abundant Decade: The 1960s
chapter 12 The Years of Disillusionment: 1967-1973
chapter 13 The Decade of Détente: 1969-1979
chapter 14 Western Europe in the Troubled 1980s
chapter 15 A New Order in Eastern Europe
chapter 16 Continental Drift
chapter 17 Europe and the Challenges of
Globalization

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About the Author

Felix Gilbert, late of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, was the first recipient of the American Historical Association’s Award for Scholarly Distinction in 1985. David Clay Large is a professor at the Fromm Institute, University of San Francisco, and a Senior Fellow at the Institute of European Studies, U.C. Berkeley. A specialist on the history of Modern Europe, especially Germany and Austria, Large is the author of ten books including Berlin, Where Ghosts Walked: Munich’s Road to the Third Reich, and Nazi Games.