Includes maps of: Europe, 1812; Europe, 1815; Unification of Italy; Europe, 1919; USSR, 1991; NATO and the Warsaw Pact, 1955; Europe and Central Asia after the Fall of Communism; European Union.

1. The Old Regime and the Enlightenment -- 2. The French Revolution and Napoleon -- 3. The Industrial Revolution and the birth of capitalism -- 4. 1848: the peoples' spring -- 5. Marx, Marxism, and socialism -- 6. Darwinism and social Darwinism -- 7. The unifications of Italy and Germany -- 8. The Age of Imperialism and the scramble for Africa -- 9. World War I -- 10-The Russian Revolution and Communism -- 11. World War II and the Holocaust -- 12. Europe divided, the Cold War, and decolonization -- 13. 1989: the collapse of Communism and end of the Cold War -- 14. The European Union: Europe united and free? -- Conclusion: Europe in the twenty-first century.