Contents -- Introduction -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Part I: The Nature of Europe -- I. How to Understand Our Past -- II. Europe and the Seven Stages of Western Culture -- III. Europe Not a Continent but a Society of Peoples -- IV. Germany and Central Europe -- V. Eastern Europe and Russia -- VI. Russia and Asia -- VII. Asia and Europe -- VIII. Europe Overseas: Colonization and Empire -- IX. Europe Overseas: The New World of America -- Part II: The Present Crisis of Western Culture -- X. Intellectual Antecedents: Hegel and the German Ideology -- XI. The Revolt against Europe -- XII. The World Wars and the Growth of the Mass State -- XIII. The Problem of the Future: Total Secularizationor a Return to Christian Culture -- Index of Subjects -- Index of Names.