The Century: A Bird’s Eye View The Age of Catastrophe The Age of Total War The World Revolution Into the Economic Abyss The Fall of Liberalism Against the Common Enemy The Arts 1914-15 End of Empires The Golden Age Cold War The Golden Years The Social Revolution 1945-1990 Cultural Revolution The Third World ‘Real Socialism’
Preface Introduction Revolutionary Prelude ‘The Springtime of Peoples’ Developments The Great Boom The World Unified Conflicts and War Building Nations The Forces of Democracy Losers Winners Changing Society Results The Land Men Moving City, Industry, the Working Class The Bourgeois World Science, Religion, Ideology The Arts Conclusion Tables Maps
Preface Introduction Developments The World in the 1780s The Industrial Revolution The French Revolution War Peace Revolutions Nationalism Results Land Towards an Industrial World The Career Open to Talent The Labouring Poor Ideology: Religion Ideology: Secular The Arts Science Conclusion: Towards 1848 Maps
Preface Introduction The nation as novelty: from revolution to liberalism Popular proto-nationalism The government perspective The transformation of nationalism 1870-1018 The apogee of nationalism 1918-1950 Nationalism in the late twentieth century
Overture The Centenarian Revolution An Economy Changes Gear The Age of Empire The Politics of Democracy Workers of the World Waving Flags: Nations and Nationalism Who’s Who or the Uncertainties of the Bourgeoisie The New Woman The Arts Transformed Certainties Undermined: The Sciences Reason and Society Towards Revolution From Peace to War Epilogue