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by Donald Sassoon

entrepreneurs xiii–xv, 134–5

  British model 172

  medieval Europe xvi

  small 68

  Ephrussi family 290

  Erdoğan, Recep Tayyip 518

  Eritrea

  Italy and 439

  secession 21

  Erlanger, Baron 299

  Escott, T. H. S. 50

  ethics

  basis of capitalism 388

  capitalists and 260–61

  Ethiopia 36, 510

  Italy and 431, 438, 459

  Ogaden movement 20, 21

  ethnicity, and nation-building 19, 257

  Étienne, Eugène 476

  Europe 21, 22–3

  1848 revolutions 328, 518

  and American economic growth 242–3

  anti-Semitism 293–5, 297–9

  and Chinese art and culture 106–7

  economic growth 82, 242

  industrialized states (19th century) xx–xxi, 79

  migration to America 47–8

  migration within 48

  proposal for European Federation 243

  and protectionism 491, 501

  religion and politics 335–6, 409

  states of 24–8, 24

  see also individual countries

  European Union 11, 12, 28

  and inequality 83

  Maastricht Treaty (1992) 134

  exploration, and global settlement 3–4

  exports

  Long Depression and 481

  primary products 122, 127–8, 187, 422, 446

  and tariffs 492–3, 503

  Eyre, Edward, Governor of Jamaica 466

  Fabian Society 148, 360

  Facebook 526

  factories xxii

  conditions 58–9

  and urbanization 47

  Factory Acts (1833 to 1878), various 374, 375

  Factory and Workshops Act (1878) 375

  Faini Parliamentary Commmission, Italy 41

  famines 74

  Anatolia (1873–4) 119

  Bengal (1943–4) 418

  Finland (1866–8) 82

  India 417–18

  Russia (1890s) 45, 212, 494–5

  Faujas-Saint-Fond, Barthélemy 63–4, 186

  Fawcett, Millicent, on India 467

  Feinstein, Charles 526

  Feng Guifen 100, 102

  Fenin, Aleksandr 208

  Ferguson, Adam 452

  Ferguson, Niall 421, 458–9

  Ferri, Enrico 144

  Ferry, Jules 184, 350, 498

  anti-clericalism 391

  and colonialism 435, 461, 468, 469, 470, 474

  Fichte, Johann Gottlieb, Speeches to the German People 120

  Filene, Edward 339

  films, anti-capitalism in 512–13

  finance sector 526, 527–8

  instability of 527–8

  financial system, states and 137

  Finland 26, 279

  Agrarian League 399

  economy 82, 179

  First World War 504–5

  and anxiety 507–9

  competitive nationalism before 503–4

  effect on globalization xxxvii, 504–5

  Fitzgerald, F. Scott 450

  Flanders xvi, 28

  see also Dutch Republic; Netherlands

  Flaubert, Gustave 106, 324

  Fletcher, C. L. R. and Rudyard Kipling, A History of England 461

  Florence, medieval, tumulto dei Ciompi xv–xvi

  Fogel, Robert, and Stanley Engerman, Time on the Cross 222

  Foner, Eric 224

  Food Adulteration Act (1860) 70

  food and diet

  adulteration and contamination 70, 346

  globalization of 5, 6–7

  and life expectancy 73, 74–5

  luxuries 63, 64

  milk 69

  peasants 38, 40–41, 42

  per capita consumption (1860–1913) 55–8, 55

  ‘ready to eat’ 57–8, 339

  Scotland 63–4

  urban poor 49, 58

  variations within Europe 75

  working classes 72–3

  see also health; meat

  Food and Drug Administration (USA) 70

  Ford, Henry 239–40, 339

  Ford Motors 242, 339, 526

  foreign investment 458, 473, 482–3

  France 473, 482

  Japan 114, 483

  Russia 206, 213–14, 495

  Fortunato, Giustino 148

  Fortune, Robert 84–5

  Fourier, Charles 298

  France 13, 26, 468–9

  agriculture 172

  anti-clericalism 253, 351, 391–4

  anti-colonialism 468

  anti-German nationalism 254, 256

  anti-Semitism 298

  anti-statism in 144

  banking 184, 299

  borders 13–14, 27

  and Britain 172, 184, 185, 435

  capitalism in 184, 350–51

  Catholicism in 392–4; social Catholicism 394, 395–6, 469

  and China 425

  and democracy index 320

  democratization 247, 248, 321–4

  Dreyfus affair (1894) 256–7

  economic growth xviii–xix, 183–4

  economy: and Long Depression 488; productivity 172

  foreign investment 473, 482

  immigration 78–9, 353

  industrialization 172–3, 183

  Jews in 289, 299

  labour: child labour 368; imported 78–9, 305, 471; industrial accidents 373; industrial unrest 311, 377; trade unions 305, 377–8, 379; working conditions regulations 368, 377–9

  language 252

  Loi Griffe (1889) 497

  and the Orient 106

  political parties 521; Action libérale populaire 396

  political unrest 27, 435

  politics: liberalism xxxi; radicalism 349–50; republicanism 392; socialism xxxv, 377

  population: birth rate 78; fear of depopulation 353–4; life expectancy 76–7

  private monopolies 153

  and secular nationality 253

  social unrest (1890s) 488

  society: food 56, 74; inequality 265; inheritance 78; peasant life 38; and poor relief 348–54

  state educational system 254–5

  state interventionism 150–51, 153, 350–51

  suffrage 323–4, 325

  taxation 163, 164–5

  Third Republic 468–9, 497–8

  trade: exports 499–500; proponents of laissez-faire 150–51; and protectionism 497–8, 499–500

  and United States 242

  and urbanization 39, 43, 51, 61

  see also French Empire; French Revolution

  franchise see suffrage

  Francis I, Emperor of Austria 26

  Francis, Pope 514

  Franco-Prussian War (1870) 353, 471

  Franklin, Benjamin 223, 226

  Franz Joseph, Emperor 154, 295–6, 403, 510

  free trade 142–3

  Britain and 138, 171, 493–4, 498–9

  China and 96

  and colonialism 456–7

  Egypt 273

  liberalism and 145–6

  and living standards 362

  free-market ideology 515–18

  French Empire 46, 468–77

  Algeria 413–14, 446

  anti-colonialists and 470–71

  and civilizing mission 473–5

  and colonial settlement 462, 469–70

  colonies 430, 435, 447–8

  costs 470–71

  East India Company 444

  French Congo 454–5

  Indochina 426, 448, 473

  Madagascar 470, 473

  Morocco 471–2

  public view of 462–3

  public works programmes 451

  support for 472–5

  and trade 451, 470–71, 472–3

  Tunisia 421, 476

  Vietnam 448, 468, 473, 474–5

  F
rench Foreign Legion 460

  French Revolution 322

  and poor relief 348–9

  Frère-Orban, Walthère 151

  Freycinet, Charles de 469

  and Freycinet Plan 153

  Frick, Henry Clay 380

  Friedman, Milton 288

  Fritsch, Theodor 298

  Fröbel, Julius 243

  Froelich, John 123

  Fukuzawa, Yukichi 111–12, 114, 333, 428

  Gage, Henry 303

  Galbraith, John Kenneth, The Affluent Society 262, 337

  Gallagher, John, and Ronald Robinson 432

  Gambetta, Léon 184, 350, 497

  anti-clericalism 391–2

  and colonialism 469

  gambling, capitalism and 527–8

  Gammage, Robert 328

  Gandhi, Mahatma, and race 306

  Gapon, Georgy 283, 387

  Garelli, Alessandro 263

  Garfield, James 510

  Garnier, Joseph 469

  Gaskell, Elizabeth, Mary Barton 372

  Gatrell, Peter 214–15

  Gaulle, Charles de 392, 407, 446

  Gauls, as ancestors of French 14

  Gautier, Théophile xxii

  General Electric 242

  General Motors 242

  Geneva 62, 386

  Geneva Convention (1864) 7

  Gennosuke, Yokoyama 59

  Genoa, Republic of 13

  Genovese, Eugene 500

  Gentil, Émile 455

  Geók Tepé, siege of (1881) 210

  George, Henry 303

  Progress and Poverty (1879) 229, 372

  Georgia 16, 26

  Germain, Henri, anti-colonialism 468

  German Empire 27, 425, 430, 431, 432

  expansion 435–7

  German Historical School of Economics 147

  Germany 13, 436

  Anglophilia 172, 185–6

  anti-Catholicism 401

  and capital outflow 482

  capitalism 147–8, 155–6; paternalistic 380

  competitor to Britain 174–5

  emigration 308, 357, 437

  expenditure on food 57

  Farmers’ League 493

  industrialization xxiii, 172, 173, 502

  interventionism 147–8

  Invalidity and Old-Age Insurance Law (1889) 356

  Jews in 289, 293

  Kathedersozialisten 147, 148

  Kulturkampf 401

  language 252

  and Long Depression 489

  myth-making 255–6

  national identity 258–9

  National Insurance Code (1911) 356–7

  and navy 436

  political parties 515; Catholic Zentrum party 319, 332, 357, 400–403; Social Democrats 335, 356, 402–3

  religions 253, 401

  reunification 28

  socialism xxxiv–xxxv

  suffrage 318–19, 332

  tariffs 492–3

  taxation 165

  and United States 242

  and urbanization 43

  welfare state 356–8

  see also German Empire; Prussia

  Gerschenkron, Alexander 180, 198, 211, 214

  Ghana, Ashanti Empire 431

  Ghent, Flanders, workers’ rebellion (1252) xvi

  Ghica, Grigore, Wallachia 118

  Gia Long, Nguyên emperor 474

  Gibbons, Cardinal James 394

  Gide, Charles 470–71

  Gillette 242

  Gini coefficient 82–3

  Gini, Corrado 83

  Giolitti, Giovanni, Italian prime minister 148, 150, 311, 312

  and colonialism 438–9

  and labour reforms 381–4

  and sovereignty 487

  Girault, Arthur, Principes de colonisation … 475

  Gladen, Washington 234

  Gladstone, W. E. 194, 409

  and colonialism 452, 456

  and Egypt 273, 420

  French view of 184

  laissez-faire liberalism 145, 146

  on opium trade 95

  on poverty 52–3, 263

  and suffrage 328–9, 330

  Glasgow, Singer factory 242

  Glass-Steagall Act (1933) 528

  ‘global village’ 5

  globalization xiii, xxxvii–xxxviii, 481–4

  ancient 3, 5–6

  anti-global activists 519–20

  First World War and xxxvii, 504–5

  and foreign investment 482–3

  interdependence 191–2, 484

  and international competition 192–4

  and international organizations 134

  and market crises 485–6

  origins of term 4–5

  and protectionism 484, 503

  and social changes 193

  and trade 5–7

  and transport 484–5

  see also Long Depression

  Globalization, First Great (1860–1910) 4

  Globalization, Second Great (1980–) 4–5

  Gobineau, comte de 8

  Godkin, Edwin L. 342

  The Nation 234

  Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von 226, 261

  Goldfinger (film) 513

  Goldman, Sylvan N. 339

  Goldsmith, Oliver, ‘The Deserted Village’ 42–3

  Golescu, Nicolae 496

  Gompers, Samuel 302, 444

  Gong, Prince 102

  Gonzáles, José Luis 128

  Google 526

  Gould, Jay 234

  Gouron, Pierre 38

  Government of India Act (1858) 445

  Gramsci, Antonio 109, 149, 363, 439

  Great Britain 26

  admiration for 183–7

  agriculture 170, 194, 480, 502

  Aliens Act (1905) 308

  anti-colonialism 451–2

  Artisan’s and Labourers’ Dwellings Improvement Act (1875) 360

  coal resources 170, 194

  democratization 247; franchise 314, 324–31

  economy: credit system 162; foreign investment 458; growth xviii, 82, 85, 194–5; and Long Depression 479, 488, 489–90; and modern globalization 518; ‘Panic of 1825’ 483

  and Egypt 273–4, 419–21

  EU referendum (2016) 521

  food imports 480, 502

  global pre-eminence 156–7, 193–4; fear of decline 175–7; foreign view of decline 176; as model of development 137–8, 182–7

  Housing of the Working Classes Act (1885) 359

  immigrants 307, 308–9

  and India 416–18

  and Industrial Revolution xvii–xix

  industrialization 169–72

  and Iran 270, 271–2

  Jews in 289, 295

  labour: demonstration (1887) 310; trade unions xxxv–xxxvi, 517; working hours restrictions 368

  labour legislation 362, 374–6

  and liberty 463–4

  Married Women’s Property Act (1882) 315

  and modernity xxix–xxx, 219

  Municipal Franchise Act (1869) 314

  navy 157

  Old Age Pensions Act (1907) 362

  and opium trade to China 94–5

  and Palestine 291

  Parliament Act (1911) 362

  political stability 28, 171

  politics: Christian socialism 397–9; collective liberalism xxx–xxxi, 195; socialism xxxv–xxxvi

  and Portugal in Africa 440

  Reform Act (1832) 324

  religions 253, 319, 390

  Representation of the People Act (1884) 325

  and rise of USA xxiii, 193, 196

  rivalry with Germany 174–5, 176–7

  Roman Catholic Relief Act (1829) 319

  Second Reform Act (1867) 325, 326, 329–30

  society 130; domestic servants 67; minority languages 252; nationalities 255; rural life 40; urban living standards 49

  as state xix, 13

  state-building 162

  suffrage 314, 324–31

  support for colo
nialism 456–8

  taxation 157, 161–4, 165; centralized 161–2

  trade 156–7, 458; exports 445–6; and free trade 138, 171, 493–4, 498–9; low tariffs 492

  Trades Disputes Act (1906) 362

  welfare: pensions 355; private provision 363; reforms 349, 359–63

  in West Africa 419

  see also British Empire

  Great Sioux War (1876) 225

  Greece

  agricultural exports 130–31

  emigration from 131

  independence 24–5, 27

  infrastructure 131

  and Ottoman Empire 131, 270

  political parties 521

  shipping 131

  Gregory XVI, Pope, Mirari Vos 393

  Grey, Earl 325

  Grey, Sir Edward 271, 456

  Grigorovich, Dmitry, Anton-Goremyka 204

  Grillo, Beppe 521

  Guangxu, emperor of China 101–2, 105

  Guardianship of Infants Act (1886) 90

  Guesdes, Jules 323

  Guinea-Bissau 441

  Guizot, François 185

  Gunton, George 239

  Günzburg, Jacques de 299

  Gutstadt, Herman 302

  Guyot, Yves, La Famille Pichot 372

  Haiti 431

  Hall, J. C. 61

  Hambro, Baron Carl Joachim 64

  Hamburg, cholera 75

  Hamilton, Alexander 223, 500–501

  and religion 253–4

  Report on Manufactures 501

  Hamilton, Lord 457

  Hampshire Chronicle 54–5

  Hangzhou, China 46

  Hardie, Keir 398

  Haret, Spiru 125

  Harkness, Margaret 53

  Out of Work 307

  Harper’s Monthly, on Japan 116

  Harriman, E. H. 234

  Harris, Lee, The Man Who Tramps 372

  Harrison, Austin 175

  Hart, Robert 94, 99

  Hartz, Louis 225

  Hassall, Dr Arthur Hill 70

  Hastings, Warren 444–5

  Hausrath, Adolf 71

  Haussman, Baron 59, 150

  Havemeyer, Henry O. 234

  Hawaii 29, 441–2

  Haxthausen, August von 200

  Hayek, Friedrich 152

  The Fatal Conceit 506

  He Zhen 90–91

  health

  disparities 83

  systems 135

  health insurance

  Germany 356–7

  national 355

  Hearst, William Randolph 238

  Hedin, Adolf 356

  Hegel, G. W. F.

  on Africans 305–6, 454

  on America 226

  on Asia 93, 106

  Philosophy of History 120

  Heinz, brand 57

  Hennessey, David 304

  Henry VIII, King, beard tax 160

  Herder, Johann Gottfried 200

  Hershey Food 242

  Herta, Victoriano 275

  Hervé, Gustave 11, 192, 255

  Herzen, Alexander 198–9, 231

  Herzl, Theodor 35–6

  The Jewish State 251

  Hideyoshi, Toyotomi 15, 427

  Hilferding, Rudolf 429, 482

  Hinduism 387, 388

  Hirobumi, Itō 332–3, 428–9

  Hironaka, Kōno 110

 

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