DAVID ELLWOOD Associate Professor in Contemporary International History, University of BolognaNIALL FERGUSON Professor of Political and Financial History, Jesus College, OxfordPAUL FURLONG Professor of European Studies and Head of the School of European Studies, Cardiff UniversitySTEPHEN GUNDLE Senior Lecturer and Head of the Department of Italian, Royal Holloway College, University of LondonDOUGLAS JOHNSON Emeritus Professor of French History, University College LondonROBERT LUMLEY Reader in Italian Cultural History, University College LondonCHARLES MAIER Director of the Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies and Krupp Foundation Professor of European Studies, University of HarvardPAOLO POMBENI Professor and Chair of the Department of History, Public Law and Political Science, University of BolognaCAROLA SACHSE Research Director, Max Planck Institute, BerlinCHRISTOPHER SETON-WATSON Emeritus Fellow, Oriel College, OxfordCHRIS WARNE Lecturer in French, School of European Studies, University of Sussex

• Acknowledgements Notes on the Contributors List of Tables List of Figures 1918-1945-1989: The Making and Unmaking of Stable Societies in Western Europe: Introduction; C.Levy PART I: THE INTERNATIONAL CONTEXT FOR NATIONAL STABLIZATION: 1918-1945-1989 Empires of Nations? 1918-1945-1989; C.Maier America as a European Power: Four Dimensions of the Transatlantic Relationship: 1945 to the Late 1990s; D.Ellwood The Nationalist Challenge to Stability in Eastern and Central Europe: 1918-1945-1989; C.Seton-Watson PART II: THE DOMESTIC PROCESSES OF STABILIZATION A: The Economics of Stabilization; 1918-1945-1989 Public Debt as a Postwar Problem: The German Experience after 1918 in Comparative Perspective; N.Ferguson Stabilizing Italy: 1945-1989; P.Furlong B: Creating the Consumer Society: 1920s-1950s Visions of Prosperity: Consumerism and Popular Culture in Italy from the 1920s to the 1950s; S.Gundle Rationalizing Family Life-Stabilizing German Society: The 'Golden Twenties' and the 'Economic Miracle' in Comparison; C.Sachse C: Between Post-Materialism and the End of the Cold War 1968-1989: Social Movements in Italy Reconsidered; R.Lumley The Youth Question: Generations, Stability and Social Change in France since 1945; C.Warne PART III: POLITICAL FRAMEWORKS ACROSS THE THREE POST-WAR ERAS France's German Question, 1918-1945-1989; D.Johnson Defeat and Stability: 1918, 1945 and 1989 in Germany; M.Roseman The Roots of the Italian Political Crisis: A View from History, 1918- 1945, 1989 ...and After; P.Pombeni Index