BOOK COVER -- TITLE -- COPYRIGHT -- CONTENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- CHAPTER 1 THE AGE OF REVOLUTION, 1789-1849 -- THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION -- ECONOMIC EFFECTS -- SOCIAL UPHEAVAL -- POLITICAL REVOLUTIONS -- THE FRENCH REVOLUTION -- THE NAPOLEONIC ERA -- THE CONSERVATIVE REACTION -- THE REVOLUTIONS OF 1848 -- THE LEGACY OF THE FRENCH REVOLUTION -- CULTURAL NATIONALISM -- SIMPLICITY AND TRUTH -- POPULISM -- NATURE OF THE CHANGES -- NAPOLEON'S INFLUENCE -- CHAPTER 2 THE EARLY 19TH CENTURY: ROMANTICISM AND OTHER CULTURAL DEVELOPMENTS -- THE ROMANTIC MOVEMENT -- LITERATURE -- DRAMA -- PAINTING -- SCULPTURE AND ARCHITECTURE -- MUSIC -- SELF-ANALYSIS -- SOCIAL AND POLITICAL THOUGHT -- POSTREVOLUTIONARY THINKING -- THE PRINCIPLE OF EVOLUTION -- SCIENCE -- PHILOSOPHY -- RELIGION AND ITS ALTERNATIVES -- SCIENTIFIC POSITIVISM -- THE CULT OF ART -- CHAPTER 3 THE MID-19TH CENTURY: REALISM AND REALPOLITIK -- SCIENTIFIC MATERIALISM -- VICTORIAN MORALITY -- THE ADVANCE OF DEMOCRACY -- REALISM IN THE ARTS -- LITERATURE -- PAINTING AND SCULPTURE -- POPULAR ART -- MUSIC -- SUMMARY -- CHAPTER 4 A MATURING INDUSTRIAL SOCIETY, 1849-1914 -- THE "SECOND INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION" -- MODIFICATIONS IN SOCIAL STRUCTURE -- THE RISE OF ORGANIZED LABOUR AND MASS PROTESTS -- CONDITIONS IN EASTERN EUROPE -- THE EMERGENCE OF THE INDUSTRIAL STATE -- POLITICAL PATTERNS -- CHANGES IN GOVERNMENT FUNCTIONS -- REFORM AND REACTION IN EASTERN EUROPE -- DIPLOMATIC ENTANGLEMENTS -- THE SCRAMBLE FOR COLONIES -- PREWAR DIPLOMACY -- CHAPTER 5 MODERN CULTURE AT THE TURN OF THE 20TH CENTURY -- SYMBOLISM AND IMPRESSIONISM -- AESTHETICISM -- NATURALISM -- THE NEW CENTURY -- ARTS AND CRAFTS MOVEMENT -- NEW TRENDS IN TECHNOLOGY AND SCIENCE -- THE SOCIAL SCIENCES -- REEXAMINATION OF THE UNIVERSE -- THE PREWAR PERIOD -- CHAPTER 6 SOCIETY AND CULTURE AMID THE WORLD WARS, 1914-45.

THE GREAT WAR, OR WORLD WAR I -- THE CULTURAL SHOCK OF THE FIRST WORLD WAR -- THE INTERWAR YEARS -- HOPES IN GENEVA -- THE LOTTERY IN WEIMAR -- THE IMPACT OF THE SLUMP -- THE TRAPPINGS OF DICTATORSHIP -- THE PHONY PEACE -- THE BLAST OF WORLD WAR II -- CHAPTER 7 POSTWAR EUROPE, 1945 TO THE PRESENT -- THE UNITED STATES TO THE RESCUE -- A CLIMATE OF FEAR -- AFFLUENCE AND ITS UNDERSIDE -- THE REFLUX OF EMPIRE -- EVER CLOSER UNION? -- CONCLUSION -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX -- BACK COVER.