de Aliaga, Jerónimo 101, 102, 103, 112–13
de Córdoba, Fray Pedro 113–14
de Freycinet, Charles 170
de Montfort, Simon 40
de Tocqueville, Alexis
Democracy in America 153–4
on French Revolution 153–4
de Torres, Sebastián 112–13
De Tott, baron François 87
Debieuvre, Lieut. Colonel (French army) 185–6
Debord, Guy 246
Debray, Régis 244
Delacroix, Eugène: Liberty Leads the People (painting) 161n
Delafosse, Maurice 166
Delavignette, Robert 172–3
demography see population figures
Deng Xiaoping 48
Denmark 147
Deppe, Ludwig 182
Descartes, René 65, 66, 80
di Lampedusa, Giuseppe Tomasi: The Leopard 214–15
Diagne, Blaise 166–7, 183–4, 187
Diamond, Jared
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail … 298–9
on Western ascendancy 11–12
Dias, Bartolomeu 33
Dickens, Charles 203
Diderot, Denis 79
Diebitsch, Karl 233
diet 7, 24–5, 45–6, 170, 211
sugar 10, 45; production of 129, 131–2, 160
discovery see exploration
disease(s) see health issues
Djilas, Milovan 239
Dominican Republic 128
Donizetti, Giuseppe 88
Donne, Anne xxii
Donne, John xxii–xxiii
Dostoevsky, Fyodor: Crime and Punishment 228
Dubček, Alexander 248
Duckworth, Sir John 85
Dutch East India Company 38
Dutschke, Rudi 245
East India Company see British East India Company; Dutch East India Company
economic crises 7, 17, 44
in the West xvii–xviii, 257, 258, 259, 260–64, 276–7, 283, 288, 301, 307–12; in France 149–50, 161
in Ottoman empire 71, 89
economic growth/output 5, 14, 199, 200, 204–5, 218, 225, 227, 232–3, 257, 304–5, 306–7
in East Asia 239–40
in Great Depression 229–31
economic systems see financial systems
Ecuador 98, 122, 128
Edict of Worms (1521) 61
Edison, Thomas 260
education 14, 215, 238, 263, 264
in China 43
Islamic 51
literacy rates 77, 125, 263, 264
teaching of history xviii–xx
university level 7, 17–18, 92, 175, 244–5
for women 94, 244
Edward, Prince of Wales (Edward VIII) 220, 225
Ehrhardt, Hermann 188–9
Ehrlich, Paul 176
Eichacker, Captain Reinhold 185–6
Eijkman, Christiaan 170
Einstein, Albert 235
Eisenstadt, Shmuel 3
Elisabeth Christine of Brunswick (wife of Frederick the Great) 73–4
Ellington, Duke 230
Elliott, J. H. 103–4
empires see imperialism; individual empires
Encümen-i Daniş (Assembly of Knowledge), Ottoman empire 89
Engels, Friedrich 207, 209, 210–11, 228
England 4, 18, 37
China and 47–9
exploration, voyages of 36
France and 23, 24, 39
Industrial Revolution 10, 13, 21, 28–9, 70
Ireland and 24, 105, 203n
London see London
slavery (chattel slavery) in 130, 132
see also Britain; British empire
English Civil Wars 104, 105, 106, 107, 115, 150, 152
the Enlightenment 76–9, 81
environmental issues 17, 293–4, 299
Epp, Franz Xavier Ritter von 188–9
Erasmus, Desiderius xxiii
Erdely, Eugene 190
Eugene of Savoy, Prince 56
eugenics 176–7
in Germany 176–81, 189–90, 191; in German Namibia 176–81; genocide in 179–80, 188
Euler, Leonard 84
Euphrates river/valley 17
Europe
competition between states 36–42
geography 36–7
Islamic envoys to 86–7
US and 16
see also individual countries
European integration 14–15, 239
Everett, Edward 137
exploration, voyages of 9, 23, 38
Chinese 28–33, 48
English 36
marine chronometers for 70
as missionary endeavours 39
Portuguese 33–5, 39, 53, 130
Spanish 35–6
Faidherbe, Louis, governor of Senegal 164, 165, 166
fashion/clothing 197–8, 219–20, 225, 237, 246, 255
communist attitude to 249–50
in Japan 220–21, 222, 223, 225
jeans 240–44, 246–9, 250
machine made 217–18, 237
for men 216, 220–21, 230
military uniforms 215–16, 229, 233, 234, 237
for women 216, 220, 246; Islamic 253–5, 253n
see also consumerism
Fashoda incident, Sudan (1898) 173
Feng Youlan: History of Chinese Philosophy 27
Feraios, Rigas 213
Fermat, Pierre de 66
Ferrier, Thomas 121, 122
Ferry, Jules, Prime Minister of France 172
Fertile Crescent concept 17
film industry 230, 231
Filmer, Sir Robert: Patriarcha 108
financial systems 7, 14, 139
in Asia 7, 252–3, 277–8
banking 230–31
capitalism see capitalism
cash nexus concept 206–7
consumer credit 238
in Europe 106–7, 161
markets/market economy 205–6, 276–7
money supply 38
monopolies 38
taxation 38, 44, 106, 107, 117, 210–11, 288
see also economic …; Great Depression
First World War (1914–18) 16, 92, 148–9, 181, 182, 227
African colonial troops in 181–9; French 183–7; German 182
casualty figures 181, 183, 186, 187
Dardanelles 85
Gallipoli 91, 182
Rudyard Kipling on 187–8
Fischer, Eugen 180–81, 189
Human Heredity … 189
food see diet
food supplies 22, 200–201
famine 44, 46
see also agriculture
foreign aid, to Africa 145–6
France 4, 16, 36, 37, 83, 85
American Revolution and 117
Britain and 140, 160, 161, 173
economic crises 149–50, 161
England and 23, 24, 39
the Enlightenment 77–8
in First World War 182–3, 185–7
Huguenots 39, 41, 76
Italy and 159
literacy rates 77
living standards 24–5
the Marseillaise 156, 156n
under Napoleon Bonaparte 119, 142, 156–61
Paris 5, 77, 215
property rights 152
Russia and 160
Spain and 119
student unrest 245
see also French …
Frauenfeld, Alfred 193
Frederick the Great of Prussia 73–4
The Anti-Machiavel 75, 79–80
as an intellectual 79–80
Political Testaments 73, 80
as a scientific patron 71, 79–80, 84
French army, in First World War 182–3, 185–7
mutiny in 186–7
French empire 148, 159, 160, 195
in Africa 163–75, 176, 188, 190–91; segregation in 174–5
colonial armies 164; in First World War 183–7
Ecole Coloniale 1
65, 166–7, 172
extent of 144
institutional structure 172–3
legal system 165–6
male suffrage in 163
in North America (Louisiana Purchase) 163, 160–61
slavery, abolition of 163–4
unrest in 163, 175
French Revolution 119, 142, 149–57, 161–2
Edmund Burke on 149, 150–52, 152n, 155, 156
causes of 149–50, 153
Declaration of the Rights of Man 150, 151
executions during 152–3
political system during 152–3
as a religious conflict 151, 152, 153, 154
Rousseau and 151–2
the Terror 153, 155–6
Alexis de Tocqueville on 153–4
see also France …
French West Africa 170–71, 174, 191
Freud, Sigmund 16
on civilization 272–3
on religion 270–71, 272
Frisch, Otto 235
Galileo Galilei 65, 66, 83, 84
Galton, Francis 176–7
Kantsaywhere 177n
Gandhi, Mahatma 217
on Western civilization 141, 144, 171, 195
on Western medicine 146, 149
Garibaldi, Giuseppe 229
Le Gazetier Cuirassé 79
genocide 179–80, 188, 193, 194, 234
see also eugenics
German army, in First World War 182–3, 185–7
colonial troops 182
German empire 144
in Africa 176–81, 188–90, 191; legal system 177, racial issues 176, 177–81; rebellion in 178–9
Nazi, in Eastern Europe 189–90, 191–5
German nationalism 213, 214
Germany 11, 16, 38, 159
division of, post-1945 243; Berlin Wall 249, 251
economic growth/output 231, 232–3
eugenics in 176–81
living standards 232–3
Nazi regime 189–90, 191–5, 231–4; see also Hitler, Adolf
as a printing centre 61
Reformation 38
Russia and 192, 194, 231–2
as a scientific centre 175–6
Gibbon, Edward 78
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire 257–9, 291–2
Gide, André 174
Gilbert, William 65
Ginsburg, Allen 247
globalization 239
gold, from South America 99, 101–2, 130
golf 28
Goltz, Colmar Freiherr von de (Goltz Pasha) 91
Gorbachev, Mikhail 250
Göring, Heinrich (father of Hermann Göring) 176, 189
Göring, Hermann 176, 189, 193
Graham, Billy 273–4
Great Britain see Britain
Great Depression 229–31
Greece 15, 17, 21
Greek nationalism 213, 228
Greer, Germaine 246
Gregory VII, Pope 60
Grijns, Gerrit 170
Grimm, Hans: People without Space 189
Grosseteste, Robert 60
Guettard, Jean-Etienne 66
Guizot, François xxvii
Gutenberg, Johann 60–61
Habsburg empire 8–9, 53, 144
Ottoman empire’s invasion of (1683) 52, 54–7
Vienna, siege of (1683) 52, 53, 55, 57
see also Austria
Haiti 120, 128, 160
Hamakari, battle of (1904) 179
Hammond, Mac 275
Hardy, Georges 166
Hargreaves, James 200
Harrison, John 70
Harvey, William 66
Haussmann, Baron Georges 215
Havel, Václav 248–9
Hawaii 144
Hayek, Friedrich von 301
Road to Serfdom 237
health issues 7, 12, 14, 44, 68, 175–6
antibiotics 148
Black Death/plague 4, 23, 25, 54, 169, 175
death 25–6
definition 13
diet and 170
eugenics see eugenics
European diseases, spread of 99, 101
hospitals: Islamic 51
medical schools 53
native medicine/healers 171–2
public health 147, 148, 171–2, 177, 205
sanitation 23, 147, 179
tropical diseases 148, 168–70, 173; mortality rate from 168; research on 169–70, 174
vaccination 14, 147, 148, 170, 173, 175
Western medicine, benefits of 146–8, 168–75, 191
witch doctors 171, 172
health transition concept 147–8
Heck, Walter 233
Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich 159, 207, 212
Helvétius, Adrien 78
Hempel, Carl xx
Hendel, Ann Katrin 250
Henry V, King of England 23, 24, 39
Henry VIII, King of England 72, 103–4
Henry the Navigator, King of Portugal 39
Himmler, Heinrich 190, 192, 193–4
Hirohito, Crown Prince of Japan 220, 225–6
Hispaniola (island) 101–2
history
teaching of xviii–xx
limitations of xx–xxii
Hitler, Adolf 189–90, 194, 231
Hossbach memorandum 233
see also Germany, Nazi regime
Ho Chi Minh 167
Hobbes, Thomas 24, 73
on liberty 107–8
Hoffmann, Erich 175–6
Hogg, James xxvi
Holbach, baron Paul-Henri Thiry d’ 79
homicide rates 24, 25, 105
Hong Kong 105, 169
Hong Xiuquan 279–80
Hooke, Thomas 67, 70
Micrographia 64
How, Millicent (English migrant to South Carolina) 103, 106, 111–12
Hu Jintao 287–8
Huguenots 39, 41, 76
human rights 8
Hume, David 77, 78
Hungary 251
Huntington, Samuel, on Western civilization 15, 16, 312–13
Hus, Jan 61
Hussein, Saddam xvi
Hutton, James 66
Ibrahim, Muktar Said 288–9
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