Preface : "What's in a name?" -- The European modernists (1919-1933): emerging Internationalism -- Defining the International Style (1931-1932): a synthesis of European modernism -- Early Internationalists (1933-1945): the shift of focus to America -- Corporate Internationalism (1929-1960): the skyscraper: image of modernity -- Later modernists (1945-1965): the changing milieu -- Global manifestations (1936-1966): modernism outside America and Europe.