List of Figures; List of Maps; Acknowledgements; Preface: Europe after War and Revolution, 1914-1939; Prelude: Europe on the Cusp of the Modern; Part I. Europe after War and Revolution, 1914-1939; 1. A New Kind of War, 1914-1918: Mass Killing and its Effects; 2. A New King of War: Complete Mobilization; 3. Socialist Challenge, Counter-Revolutionary Response, 1917-1923; 4. Territories, Nations, and States: Redrawing the Map of Europe, 1914-1923; 5. National Bodies, New Women, Damaged Men; Part II. European Modernities: Cities, Selfhood, and the Future; 6.

Modernity and its Discontents: Estrangement and Possibility; 7. Popular Culture and Intellectual Life: Entertainment, Improvement, Contestation; 8. Modernity and its Discontents: Art, Literature, Aesthetics; 9. Intellectuals, Emancipation, and the Self: Learning to be Modern; 10. Modernity and its Futures: Science, Technology, Planning; Part III. Europe and its Others; 11. Europe in the World, 1914-1940: Colony and Empire; 12. Empire at Home: Race and the Color Line; Part IV.

Towards Catastrophe; 13. Capitalism in Trouble, Europe in Depression: Breakdown, 1929-1936; 14. Fascism, Strong States, and the Challenge of Democracy: A Europe of Dictators, 1922-1939; 15. Crisis after Crisis, 1931-1938; 16. Back to War, 1938-1939; 17. Conclusion: What is to Come?; Suggestions for Further Reading: Index.