COVER -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction On or about December 1910, London -- I: The First Moderns -- Chapter 1 1899, Vienna and the Congo: The Art of Darkness -- Chapter 2 1912, London, Chicago, Florence, New York: Modernist Moments, Feminist Mappings -- Chapter 3 1916, Flanders, London, Dublin: 'Everything Has Gone Well' -- Chapter 4 1922, Paris, New York, London: The Modernist as International Hero -- II: Between the Wars -- Chapter 5 1925, London, New York, Paris: Metropolitan Modernisms - Parallax and Palimpsest -- Chapter 6 1928, London: A Strange Interlude -- Chapter 7 1936, Madrid: The Heart of the World -- Chapter 8 1941, London under the Blitz: Culture as Counter-History -- III: Cold War and Empire's Ebb -- Chapter 9 1944, Melbourne and Adelaide: The Ern Malley Hoax -- Chapter 10 1955, Disneyland: 'The Happiest Place on Earth' and the Fiction of Cold War Culture -- Chapter 11 1956, Suez and Sloane Square: Empire's Ebb and Flow -- Chapter 12 1960, Lagos and Nairobi: 'Things Fall Apart' and 'the Empire Writes Back' -- Chapter 13 1961, Jerusalem: Eichmann and the Aesthetic of Complicity -- Chapter 14 1963, London: The Myth of the Artist and the Woman Writer -- IV: Millennium Approaches -- Chapter 15 1967, Liverpool, London, San Francisco, Vietnam: 'We Hope You Will Enjoy the Show' -- Chapter 16 1970, Planet Earth: The Imagination of the Global -- Chapter 17 1979, Edinburgh and Glasgow: Devolution Deferred -- Chapter 18 1989, Berlin and Bradford: Out of the Cold, Into the Fire -- Chapter 19 11 February 1990, South Africa: Apartheid and After -- Chapter 20 1991, The Web: Network Fictions -- Chapter 21 1993, Stockholm: A Prize for Toni Morrison -- Coda 11 September 2001, New York: Two Y2Ks -- Notes on Contributors -- Index.