"An American BookWorks Corporation project."

Includes bibliographical references.

Contents: The Struggle for constitutional government in England -- Absolute monarchy in France -- The Emergence of Austria, Prussia, and Russia -- The Eighteenth-century struggle for power -- The Scientific revolution -- The Enlightenment -- Literature, art and music in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries -- The French revolution -- Napoleon, France and Europe -- The Congress of Vienna and the concert of Europe -- Romanticism -- Reform and revolution in Great Britain, France and the United States -- The Conservative order in Central and Eastern Europe -- The Agricultural and industrial revolutions -- Liberalism and socialism -- The Revolutions of 1848 -- National Unification in Italy and Germany -- The Advance of democracy in Great Britain, France, Italy and the United States -- Autocratic Europe: Germany, Austria-Hungary and Russia -- Nineteenth-century European civilization -- The Age of imperialism -- The Coming of the first World War -- The First World War -- Soviet Russia under Lenin and Stalin -- Fascist Italy -- Germany from Weiner to Hitler -- Great Britain, France and the United States between the two World Wars -- The Cold War -- The Western democracies since 1945 -- The Soviet Union and Eastern Europe since 1945 -- The Middle East, Asia and Africa since 1945 -- Western civilization in the twentieth century.