"Authored by pre-eminent design scholar Victor Margolin, World History of Design is an indispensable new multi-volume work, providing a comprehensive and detailed historical account of design from prehistory to the end of the twentieth century"

• Volume 1. Prehistoric Times to World War I
• 1. The Prehistoric Age
• 2. The Earliest Civilizations, 7000 BCE-900 BCE
• 3. The Classical Age and Early Byzantium, 900 BCE-800 CE
• 4. Medieval Europe and the Islamic World, 800-1200
• 5. Asia, Africa, and the Americas, 800 BCE-1200 CE
• 6. Renaissance Europe and the Ottoman Empire, 1200-1750
• 7. Cross-Cultural Encounters, 1200-1750
• 8. The Industrial Revolution in Europe and America, 1750-1830
• 9. The Age of Exhibitions: Great Britain, 1830-1900
• 10. The Craft Ideal and the Art Movement: Britain and Elsewhere, 1861-1915
• 11. The Age of Exhibitions: Europe Outside Great Britain, 1830-1900
• Art Nouveau and the Decorative Impulse, 1890-1914
• 13. The United States, 1840-1900
• 14. Canada, Australia, New Zealand, 1300-1900
• 15. Protoindustrialization in Diverse Regions, 1750-1900
• 16. Colonies and Pre-Industrial Nations in Asia and Africa, 1750-1900
• 17. Modern Design in Europe and America, 1900-1917
• 18. Art and Literature of the Avant-Gardes, 1897-1918
• 19. World War I, 1914-1918

• Volume 2. World War I to World War II
• 20. Design in the Soviet Union, 1905-1928
• 21. Weimar Germany, 1918-1933
• 22. France, 1918-1939
• 23. Great Britain, 1918-1939
• 24. Western and Southern Europe, 1900-1939
• 25. Central and Eastern Europe, 1900-1939
• 26. Scandinavia, 1917-1945
• 27. Italy, Germany, the Soviet Union, and Portugal, 1922-1940
• 28. The United States, 1917-1941
• 29. Latin America: Cuba, Mexico, and Brazil, 1900-1939
• 30. Latin America: Chile, Argentina, Colombia, Venezuela, and Uruguay, 1900-1939
• 31. Commonwealth Countries; Canada, Australia, and New Zealand, 1900-1939
• 32. The Near and Middle East, 1900-1939
• 33. Colonies: Africa, 1900-1945
• 34. Colonies: India, Hong Kong, and Burma, 1900-1945
• 35. Asia: China and Siam, 1900-1939
• 36. Asia: Japan, Its Colonies, and Its Territories, 1900-1937
• 37. World War II, 1939-1945