Contents -- Prologue -- 1. Paris, 1900 -- World of Iron -- Explaining Social Politics -- 2. The Atlantic World -- Landscapes -- Progressive Politics -- 3. Twilight of Laissez-Faire -- Natural Acts and Social Desires -- Professing Economics -- 4. The Self-Owned City -- The Collectivism of Urban Life -- Cities on a Hill -- 5. Civic Ambitions -- Private Property, Public Designs -- "City Planning in Justice to the Working Population" -- 6. The Wage Earners' Risks -- Workingmen's Insurance -- Fields of Interest -- 7. War Collectivism -- Europe, 1914 -- Society "More or Less Molten" -- 8. Rural Reconstruction -- Cooperative Farming -- Island Communities -- 9. The Machine Age -- The American Invasion of Europe -- The Politics of Modernism -- 10. New Deal -- The Intellectual Economy of Catastrophe -- Solidarity Imagined -- 11. London, 1942 -- The Plan to Abolish Want -- The Phoenix of Exceptionalism -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index.