Bonnie G. Smith is Board of Governors Distinguished Professor of History at Rutgers University, USA. She is the author of several books, including Women's Studies: The Basics (2013), Europe in the Contemporary World: 1900 to Present: A Narrative History with Documents (2007) and The Gender of History: Men, Women, and Historical Practice (2000). She is also the co-author, along with Lynn Hunt, Thomas Martin and Barbara Rosenwein, of The Making of the West: Peoples and Cultures (4th Ed., 2012) and the general editor of the four-volume Oxford Encyclopedia of Women in World History (2008), which won the American Library Association Outstanding Reference Work Award.

Preface for Instructors
Introduction for Students
1. Imperial Europe at the Dawn of the Twentieth Century
2. Modernity and the Unsettling of Europe, 1900-1914
3. World War I and the Russian Revolution, 1914-1922
4. A World Transformed, 1920-1925
5. Facing Global Economic Depression, 1929-1939
6. The Second World War and the Collapse of Europe, 1939-1945
7. Devastated Europe in an Age of Cold War, 1945-1963
8. The Rebirth of Prosperity and the Rise of the Welfare State in the 1950s and Early 1960s
9. Post-Imperial Europe, ca. 1947 to 1980
10. Post-Industrial Europe and its Critics, 1965-1979
11. Europe Changes Course: The 1980s and Beyond
12. Europe in the Global Age
13. Twenty-First Century Challenges
Index