T. C. W. Blanning is Professor of Modern European History at Cambridge, and a Fellow of Sidney Sussex College. His books include Rise and Fall of the French Revolution, 1789-99 (University of Chicago Press, 1996); French Revolution: Class War or Culture Clash? (Macmillan, 1997); French Revolutionary Wars, 1787-1802 (Arnold, 1996); Origins of the French Revolutionary Wars (Longman, 1986).

a superb volume, complete with maps, and tells the story of a continent from the 18th century to the present day.

• Introduction ; 1. Revolution from Above and Below: European Politics from the French Revolution to the First World War ; 2. The Industrialization of Modern Europe, 1750-1914 ; 3. Military Modernization, 1789-1918 ; 4. From Orders to Classes: European Society in the Nineteenth Century ; 5. The Commercialization and Sacralization of European Culture in the Nineteenth Century ; 6. The Great Civil War: European Politics, 1914-45 ; 7. The Fall and Rise of the European Economy in the Twentieth Century ; 8. Warfare in Europe since 1918 ; 9. European Society in the Twentieth Century ; 10. From Modernism to Post-Modernism ; 11. Europe Divided and Reunited, 1945-95 ; Further Reading; Chronology; Maps; Acknowledgement of Sources; Index