ABSTRACT

`A fascinating book, readable and illuminating.' Times Literary Supplement

chapter 1|22 pages

The feudal inheritance

chapter 2|24 pages

Enlightenment

chapter 3|25 pages

Liberalism and nationalism

chapter 4|26 pages

Storm and settlement, 1848–70

chapter 5|23 pages

Economics and society, 1850–1914

chapter 6|24 pages

Politics, 1870–1918

chapter 7|24 pages

Independent Eastern Europe

chapter 8|24 pages

From Hitler to Stalin

chapter 9|36 pages

Communist Eastern Europe

chapter 10|6 pages

Epilogue

chapter 2|4 pages

Glossary