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• Half-Title
• Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction: Globalization, Perils, and Prospects
• Part I From the Dawn of Civilization to Versailles
• 1 Modernity and Its Discontents
• 2 The Rise and Fall of Civilizations
• 3 From Feudal to Modern Europe
• 4 Global Imperialism’s First Wave
• 5 The Nation-State
• 6 Liberalism and Nationalism
• 7 The Industrial Revolution
• 8 Global Imperialism’s Second Wave
• Part II From Versailles to Copenhagen
• 9 Peace, Prosperity, and Collapse
• 10 The Rise of Communism and Fascism
• 11 The Anticolonial Struggle
• 12 Global War and the Postwar Liberal System
• 13 The Cold War from 1947 to 1968
• 14 The Cold War from 1969 to 1991
• 15 The Post–Cold War World
• 16 The Post–September 11 World
• 17 The Faustian Dilemma
• Notes
• Index