The end of the European era, 1890 to the present

pt. 1. Europe's apogee. The beginning of a new century ; Politics and society, 1890-1914 ; The First World War.

pt. 2. The peace that failed. Peacemaking ; The era of stabilization ; The economic crisis and the rise of Nazism ; Toward the inevitable conflict ; The Second World War.

pt. 3. Rebuilding Europe. Postwar uncertainties ; Reconstruction and revolt: the 1950s.

pt. 4. Resurgent Europe. Europe's abundant decade: the 1960s ; The years of disillusionment: 1967-1973 ; The decade of détente: 1969-1979 ; Western Europe in the troubled 1980s ; A new order in Eastern Europe ; Europe in the 1990s: new beginnings, old agonies.