Europe before World War I, 1895-1914. Industrial economy and civil society ; The cures of ethnonationalism and colonialism ; Premonitions of total war -- Violence unleashed, 1914-1923. Mobilization, 1914 ; the totalization of warfare ; The wars after the Great War -- Recivilization and its failure, 1924-1935. the short dream of prosperity for all ; Militarism ; The Stalinist experiment in violence -- Violence without bounds, 1935-1914. Total mobilization in peacetime ; Terroristic warfare ; Visions of a new European order.