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| Acknowledgments | |
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| List of Maps | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Themes | |
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| Sources | |
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| ""A Specter is Haunting Europe"" | |
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| Ethnic Diversity and the Rise of the Great Nation-States | |
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| Industrialization and Imperialism | |
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| European Society | |
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| The Upper Classes | |
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| The Social Question | |
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| The Second International | |
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| The Hague | |
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| Europe before the Great War | |
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| Escalating International Tensions | |
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| Wars and Crises, 1899-1907 | |
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| Peace Efforts | |
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| Advent of the Dragon, 1908-1914 | |
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| Long-Term Origins of the War | |
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| Political Turmoil Inside Europe | |
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| Class Relations | |
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| Women | |
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| Ethnic Tensions | |
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| Variations of Modernist Culture | |
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| The July Crisis | |
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| The Great War and Beyond | |
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| War of Attrition | |
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| Home Fronts | |
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| Britain and France | |
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| Italy, Austria-Hungary, and Germany | |
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| Russia and the West in 1917 | |
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| Germany and the War's End 1917-1918 | |
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| The Turbulent Era of the Peace Treaties | |
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| The Setting: Violence Continues | |
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| The Paris Settlement | |
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| The Paris Settlement | |
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| The Fighting Runs Its Course | |
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| War's Effects on Men and Women | |
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| The Illusion of Peace and Democracy | |
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| The League of Nations 1919-1929 | |
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| The Great Powers and the League | |
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| The Era of Locarno | |
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| Cultural Bellwethers | |
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| The Cultural Aftermath | |
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| Anti-War and Pro-War Novels | |
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| Weimar Culture | |
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| Freud | |
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| Popular Culture | |
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| Democracies Young and Old | |
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| The Successor States of Eastern Europe | |
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| Young Democracies with Nationalist Grievances | |
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| The Democracies of Northern and Western Europe | |
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| Democracy in Ireland | |
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| The Democratic Balance | |
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| Communist Rules in Russia | |
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| Toward the Cataclysm | |
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| The Great Depression | |
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| The Crisis of Democracy and the Failure of the | |
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| League | |
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| The Rise of the Nazis | |
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| The League Disarmament Conference | |
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| The Ebb of Democracy | |
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| The Interaction of Domestic and Foreign Policy | |
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| Italy | |
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| Germany | |
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| France | |
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| Spain | |
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| Britain | |
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| The Neutral States | |
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| The Soviet Union | |
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| Digression: Culture Under Totalitarianism | |
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| Germany and War Again | |
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| World War Two | |
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| Blitzkrieg 1939-1941 | |
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| The Decline of the Axis 1942-1944 | |
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| Life in Occupied Europe | |
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| The Nazi New Order | |
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| The Resistance | |
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| Genocide | |
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| From D-Day to V-E Day 1944-1945 | |
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| Ruin, Reconstruction, and Recrimination | |
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| Culture Between War and Cold War | |
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| Visions of New World and European Orders | |
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| Cold War | |
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| Communism Is East | |
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| Developments in Eastern Europe | |
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| Political Life in the U.S.S.R | |
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| Democracy Is West | |
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| The End of Empire | |
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| European Integration | |
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| Socialist Market Economies | |
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| The Functioning of Democracy | |
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| Gender Relations | |
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| Democratic Soft Spots in Greece, Italy, France, and West Germany | |
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| Europe and America | |
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| Berlin and Cuba | |
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| Capitalism, Communism, and Consumerism | |
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| To Americanize or Not | |
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| The Contemporary Technological System Between West and East | |
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| The Widening and Deepening of Democracy | |
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| 1968 | |
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| Hard Times | |
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| Eurocommunism and the Spread of Democracy in Southern Europe | |
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| Closer Union | |
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| The Irish Troubles | |
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| Democratization in West Germany | |
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| Women's Equality | |
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| Environmentalism | |
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| The Democratic Balance | |
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| The Fall of Communism | |
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| The Detente Interlude | |
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| Economic Doldrums | |
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| Dissent and the Coming of Gorbachev | |
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| East Bloc Troubles and the 1989 Revolutions | |
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| The Disintegration of the Soviet Union | |
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| Contemporary History | |
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| The View from Brussels | |
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| The Croatian and Bosnian Tragedies | |
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| The Young Democracies of Eastern Europe | |
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| The European Monetary Union (EMU) | |
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| Post-Communist Russia | |
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| Terrorism and Sectarian Violence | |
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| Touring Europe's Horizons in the Early Twenty-First Century | |
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| Notes | |
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| Index | |