xxxvi, 780, 143 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.

Machine generated contents note: pt. 1 THE EUROPEAN AGE -- ch. 1 December 14, 1900 -- The Twentieth Century: Science and Ideology -- European Society -- Changing Cultural and Political Outlooks -- Bibliographical Essay -- Biographical Sketches -- Anna Kuliscioff, Cofounder of Italian Socialism -- Ma...

Contents note continued: Frances Lost Provinces -- Showdown in the Balkans -- Italy Searches for Security -- Bibliographical Essay -- Biographical Sketches -- Theophile Delcasse, Warrior Diplomat -- Francis Joseph of Hapsburg, Unlucky -- ch. 5 European Peripheries -- Scandinavia: An Ideal Unity -- D...

Contents note continued: ch. 7 The War's Immediate Impact: The Russian and Other Revolutions -- War and the Russian Revolutions -- The German Revolution -- Revolution in Austria -- The Hungarian Revolution -- Continuous Rebellion: Artists and Scientists -- Bibliographical Essay -- Biographical Sketc...

Contents note continued: Benito Amilcare Andrea Mussolini, Young Rebel -- pt. 3 AN AGE OF DICTATORS -- ch. 10 The Great Depression and the Liberal Democracies -- The Great Depression -- British Democracy -- Troubled France -- Scandinavia: Toward Social Democracy -- Marking Time: The Low Countries an...

Contents note continued: Margherita Sarfatti, "Dictator of the Figurative Arts" -- ch. 13 Stalin's Communism -- Communist Ideology -- Communist Practice -- Bibliographical Essay -- Biographical Sketches -- Nikolai Ivanovich Bukharin, Communist Theoretician -- Alexandra Mikhaylovna Kollontai, "Red Ro...

Contents note continued: Biographical Sketches -- Ettore Majorana, The Enduring Mystery -- Lise Meitner, The Role of Insight -- ch. 17 Diplomacy Between the Wars: The Collapse of Peace -- The Continent in the 1920s -- Correcting Versailles -- The Hitler Revolution -- From Crisis to Crisis -- A New W...

Contents note continued: Primo Levi, 174517 -- ch. 20 How the War was Won -- Weapons -- Wartime Production -- Battles -- Resistance -- The Future -- Ideology: Nationalisms Handmaiden? -- Bibliographical Essay -- Biographical Sketches -- Erwin Rommel, The Desert Fox -- Bernard Law Montgomery, Hero of...

Contents note continued: Characteristics of the Seven -- The Disappearing Periphery -- Bibliographical Essay -- Biographical Sketches -- James Harold Wilson, Reluctant European -- Kurt Waldheim, Austria in the Dock -- ch. 24 Decolonization -- Origins of Decolonization -- Death by War -- Failed Trans...

Contents note continued: Alexander Dubcek, Brief Spring -- ch. 27 The Shifting Economic Framework and Political Change in the West -- Economic Quandaries -- The Thatcher Era in Britain -- Mitterrand's "Unintended Revolution" -- Italy's Triple Revolution -- Keeping the Balance in Germany -- Meeting t...

Contents note continued: Joerg Haider, Embarrassment or Admonition? -- Andreas Papandreou, Democratic Fighter -- ch. 30 Evolution of Society -- Postwar Society -- The Changing Family -- Immigration -- Bibliographical Essay -- Biographical Sketches -- John XXIII, "The Good Pope" -- Boris Pasternak, D...

Contents note continued: The Process of Collapse II: Explosion -- The Process of Collapse III: Russia versus the Soviet Union -- Bibliographical Essay -- Biographical Sketches -- Vaclav Havel, Velvet Revolution -- Boris Nikolayevich Yeltsin, Maverick -- ch. 34 Europe in a Global Age: Problems and Pr...