From the publisher’s description:
A history of Western civilization that looks at each preceding era’s influence on the next, and predicts future developments in our culture.
Lowenthal, Richard (NHC Fellow, 1979–80), ed. End and Beginning: On the Generations of Cultures and the Origins of the West, by Franz Borkenau. Edited by Richard Lowenthal. European Perspectives. New York: Columbia University Press, 1981. ISBN 0231050666.