crisis and recovery, 1929-39 -- 4. Eastern Europe and the periphery in the 1930s -- 5. The battle for Europe 1939-45 -- 6 …. Europe's reconstruction -- 7. The golden age of post-war economic growth -- 8. The socialist economies of Eastern Europe …, 1950-70 -- 9. Western capitalism in the 1970s -- 10. Western Europe in the 1980s : the search for stability -- 11. Eastern …

In the centuries leading up to the Industrial Revolution, Western Europe gradually pulled ahead of other world regions … explain the rise of Europe relative to regions that relied on the transmission of knowledge within extended families or clans. …

Europe, with particular attention to Belgium"-- … period from 1750 to 1850, first in Britain and then in selected parts of northern and western Europe. This is a new history … systems new to the eighteenth century to transform the economic destiny of western Europe"-- …