COVER; CONTENTS; LIST OF ACRONYMS; 1 -- APPROACHING EUROPEAN SOCIETY; 2 -- THE EUROPEAN SOCIAL COMPLEX: EUROPE AS NETWORK AND EMPIRE?; PART 1 -- The Development of the European Social Complex: Civilisations and Nation-states; 3 -- ORIGINS OF THE EUROPEAN SOCIAL COMPLEX: PRE-MODERNITY, COMMONALITIES AND EUROPE AS A 'CIVILISATION'; 4 -- DEVELOPING THE MODERN EUROPEAN COMPLEX: NATION-STATES, CITIZENS AND DIFFERENCE; PART 2 -- The Modern European Complex and Social Change: A Europe of Nations, Warfare States and Welfare States; 5 -- THE MODERN EUROPEAN COMPLEX: WAR AND PEACE.