Acknowledgments
List of plates
List of figures and tables
List of boxes
Maps
Introduction
Chronology
1. The Twentieth Century in an Iron Cage: Modernization and Rationalization Modernization
2. War and Peace: Lenin and Wilson
3. The 1920s: Precarious Democracy
4. Europe and the World of the Depression
5. Peace and War: The Failure of the International Order in the 1930s
6. The Second World War
7. The Reconstruction of Europe, Western Style: Making the 1950s
8. Yalta and Communism: The Reconstruction of Europe, Eastern Style, from the 1940s to the 1970s
9. A Golden Age: the 1960s
10. The Limits to Growthmanship: the 1970s
11. Right Step: the 1980s
12. Malta and Communism: 1989 and the Restoration of Europe
13. The Return to Europe: The New Politics and the End of the Cold War
14. Europe in a New World Order Appendices
Biography
Harold James is the Claude and Lore Kelly Professor in European Studies at Princeton University, USA. His books include The German Slump (1986), The End of Globalization (2001), and Making the European Monetary Union (2012).
