A history of the European spirit from Waterloo to the First World War -- a history not so much of events as of the ideas which controlled, and were controlled by, events, analyzing and explaining the meaning of the vast movements of thought in European history in the turbulent nineteenth century.

"FIRST EDITION." "THE PRESENT TRANSLATION HAS BEEN MADE FROM THE THIRD ITALIAN EDITION (BARI, LATERZA, 1932)"--TRANSLATOR'S PREF.

Religion of Liberty -- Opposing Religious Faiths -- Romantic Movement -- Resistance and Opposition to Absolutism and the Victory over it (1815-30) -- Progress of the Liberal Movement: First Conflicts with Social Democracy -- Liberal-National Revolutions, Democratic-Social Revolutions and Reactions -- Revolutionary Revival and the General Liberal-National Organization of Europe (1851-70) -- Unification of German Power and the Change in the Public Spirit of Europe (1870) -- The Liberal Age (1871-1914) -- International Politics, Activism and the World War (1871-1914) -- Epilogue.