Introduction. - PART I: THE NINETEENTH CENTURY: SHAPING NEW TECHNOLOGIES. - 1. Poaching from Paris. - 2. Creating European Comfort. - 3. Crossing Borders - in Style?. - PART II: AFTER THE GREAT WAR: WHO DIRECTS TECHNOLOGY?. - 4. Bicycling and Driving Europe. - 5. Eating around the Continent. - 6. Living in State-sponsored Europe. - PART III: BEYOND THE 1960S: USERS EMPOWERED?. - 7. Saving the Nation, Saving the Earth. - 8. Toying with America, Toying...