Introduction: The past in the present
Part I : making sense of a transnational world
Transnationalism in historical and sociological analysis
Modernity and the plurality of Europe
Europe unbounded : critical cosmopolitanism and the problem of Eurocentrism
Part II : encounters, routes, transfers and entanglements
Cultural encounters and European civilisation
Europe and modernity as reference cultures
The making of European society and the entanglement of capitalism and democracy
The legacy of European integration : Europe in the world
Part III : looking to the future
Solidarity as a political legacy for Europe today
Making sense of Brexit : a divided nation in a divided Europe
Europe beyond the crisis : re-inventing the European heritage.