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1913

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by Charles Emmerson


  Frederick II, the Great, King of Prussia, 67

  Freud, Sigmund, 102, 103, 104

  Frick, Henry Clay, 177

  Frick, William, 169

  Fried, Alfred, 77

  Fujise, Sub-Lieutenant, 412

  Fukazawa Yukichi, 354, 424–5

  Futurism, 8, 53, 54, 122–3, 172; paintings, 85

  Gamboa, Federico, 219

  Gandhi, Mohandas Karamchand, 16, 229, 294–5, 300–4, 301

  Garibaldi, Giuseppe, 82

  Garvin, James Louis, 432

  Gavit, John Palmer, 150

  Gavotti, Lieutenant Giulio, 80

  George, King of Greece, 376

  George V, King of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, 11; character, 10; coronation, 17; India visit, 281, 284; at Kaiser’s daughter’s wedding, 10–12, 13; and Poincaré’s state visit, 20, 34

  Germany: attitude to Balkan War, 378; coal imports, 28; ethnic and political unity, 71; First World War’s effects, 452; German facilities in Jerusalem, 332; Germans living in and visiting Britain, 18–19; importance as world power, 350; interventions abroad, 386; militarism, 12–13; naval might, 412; political system, 71–4; population, 56; relations with Austria-Hungary, 98; relations with Britain, 36; relations with China, 352, 386, 394, 406; relations with France, 10, 35, 38–9, 48, 57, 261; relations with Ottoman Empire, 364, 365, 380; relations with Persia, 317; relations with Russia, 120, 128; Social Democratic Party, 7, 452; trade and industry, 28; welfare policies, 33; see also Berlin

  Gettysburg, battle of (1863): fiftieth anniversary, 154–6, 155

  Ghent, xvi, 4–5, 130

  Gide, André, 369

  Gilbert, Cass, 166, 168, 182

  Giolitti, Giovanni, 81

  Girdner, John H., 163, 169, 173

  Glinka, Mikhail, 110, 114

  globalisation: Algiers’ diversity, 270; Australia’s diversity, 233–4; Austro-Hungarian Empire’s diversity, 88–94; Bombay’s diversity, 290–1; British Empire’s free right of movement, 300; Buenos Aires’ diversity, 259–60; Canada’s diversity, 233–4, 242–3; Constantinople’s diversity, 360–3; Detroit’s diversity, 182–3; European identity, 3–10; London’s internationalism, 15–22; Los Angeles’ diversity, 196; New York’s diversity, 172–6; overview of extent in 1913, xiv; Russia’s diversity, 114–16; St Petersburg’s international feel, 127; Shanghai’s diversity, 397–401; US love of European art, 169–72; Winnipeg’s diversity, 242–3; world’s interconnectedness, 225–7

  Gokhale, Gopal Krishna, 282, 294–5, 299, 301

  Gold Standard, 27–8, 455

  Gooch, G. P., xiv

  Goodnow, Frank, 402, 409

  Gorky, Maxim, 9

  Goto Shinpei, 426

  Gould, Jay, 177

  Gourmont, Remy de, 39

  Graham, Stephen, 332–4

  Greece, 351, 366–7, 376, 378, 453

  Greek Orthodox Church, 361

  Grey, Sir Edward, 16, 17, 444

  Grieg, Edvard, 9

  Griffis, William Elliot, 428

  Griffith, D. W., 203

  Gropius, Walter, 183

  Guangxu, Chinese Emperor, 383, 389, 393

  Guggenheim, Benjamin, 135

  Guggenheim, Daniel, 175

  Guild, Curtis, 210

  The Hague: Peace Palace, xiv, 5

  Haiphong, 352

  Hale, William Bayard, 217–18

  Halévy, Elias, 435

  HaMagen, 339

  Hanoi, 352

  Hanoum, Zeyneb, 373

  Hardie, James Keir, 7

  Hardinge, Charles, 280, 281, 283, 284, 303–4

  Harmand, Jules, 228

  Hart, Sir Robert, 396–7

  HaShomer, 340

  Haussmann, Baron, 44–5

  Hawkins, N. A., 189–90

  Hegeman, John R., 168

  Hellerau, 10

  Hertzog, Barry, 296, 306, 307

  Herzl, Theodor, 106, 336, 337, 340, 343

  Hewett, Captain G. H., 292

  Hichens, Robert, 369, 370, 372

  Hill, Alex, 245–6

  Hinduism, 286, 291, 299–300

  Hirst, Francis Wrigley, ix

  Hitler, Adolf, 92, 98, 101, 103

  Hobson, John A., 433

  Hochberg, Sami, 339

  Hollander, F. C., 294

  Hollywood, 200–1, 202–4

  Holmes, Thomas, 32

  homosexuality, 65

  Horinka, Stefan, 108–9

  Houllevigue, Louis, 47

  House, Edward Mandell: background and life, 136, 141, 147, 216; Philip Dru, Administrator (novel), 136–8, 139, 192, 206, 220

  Huard, Charles, 60

  Huerta, General Victoriano, 208, 211, 214–19, 216

  Humphreys, Rachel, 270, 271–2, 292

  Hungary, 452; see also Austria-Hungary

  Hunter, William Wilson, 284

  Husseini, Hussein al-, 330

  Huxley, Thomas, 352

  imperialism and colonialism: Australian and Canadian attitudes to British Empire, 228, 230–9; British attitude, 431–6; French governance of Algeria, 267–9, 273–9; overview of European, 3; rise and fall of historical empires, 349; US attitude, 140–1; variant meanings and attitudes worldwide, 227–9; and Versailles Treaty, 454; see also individual countries by name

  Impressionism, 54

  In Old California (film), 203

  India: attitude to British Empire, 227, 228, 280–7; contemporary speculation about future, 431; First World War’s aftermath, 454; and globalisation, 226, 227; importance to Britain, 286–7; Indians educated in Britain, 16–17, 20; Indians in South Africa, 226, 229, 294–5, 297–304; Ireland’s influence on nationalists, 436; nationalist inconsistencies of thought, 228; railways, 286, 287, 288–9; Raj’s extent, 280–1; see also Bombay

  Indian National Congress, 21, 282

  Indonesia, 454

  Inoue Kaoru, 416

  International Exhibition of Modern Art (1913), 170–1

  International Peace Bureau, 5

  interventions, foreign, 215–20, 320, 386–9

  Iran see Persia

  Iraq, 454

  Ireland: French support for nationalists, 34; independence, 454; Irish in Australia, 247, 248; politics and Home Rule, 17, 257, 357, 436, 437–40

  Isaacs, Rufus, 30

  Islam: Bulgarian treatment of Muslims in Balkan War, 379; fears of pan-Islamism, 273, 277; lascars, 16; Muslim Algerians, 271–9; Muslim festivals in Constantinople, 360–1; Muslim–Hindu relations in India, 286, 291; Muslims and First World War, 451; Muslims in Jerusalem, 326, 327, 328–9, 344; Persian diversity, 315; in Russia, 111; South African attitude to Muslim marriage and divorce, 299–300

  Istanbul see Constantinople

  Italy: colonial empire, 80–1, 273, 375–6; Italians in Buenos Aires, 259–60, 261; northern European attitude to, 78–80; political unity, 79, 80, 82–3; population, 56; power and pretensions, 78–81, 85–6; relations with Austria-Hungary, 85–6, 101; see also Rome

  Iwakura Tomomi, 354–5

  Jáchymov see St Joachimsthal

  Jackson, Helen Hunt, 203, 204, 208

  Jacobson, Victor, 339

  James, Henry, 15, 50, 147

  Japan: attitude to Westernisation, 229, 354–5, 424–5; Australian fear of, 235; cars, 190; colonial empire, 425–6; economy, 424; and First World War, 451; importance as world power, 350, 353–6, 411–13, 424–9, 453, 454; land ownership in California, 197, 426–8; Meiji Restoration, 354–6, 414; and Mexico, 217; national mood, 420–9; naval might, 411–12; pan-Asianism, 425; political system, 354, 355, 422–4; relations with Britain, 355, 412, 432; relations with China, 352, 355, 394, 397, 406, 408, 428–9; relations with Western Powers, 424–9; Russo-Japanese War, 115, 226, 355, 424; territory taken from China, 352; urbanisation, 414–15; see also Tokyo

  Jaurès, Jean, 7, 39, 40, 55–6, 278

  Jawhariyyeh, Wasif, 329, 330–1

  Jebb, Richard, 433–4

  Jeejeebhoy, Sir Jamsetjee, 293–4

  Je
nkings, Harry, 264–5

  Jerusalem: American Colony, 334–5; attitude to Ottoman Empire, 227; first aircraft landing, 325, 326; First World War’s aftermath, 453; modernisation, 330; overview, 325–35; pilgrims in, 331–4; population, 326; religious politics and sites, 326–31, 343–4; Zionist attitude to, 337

  Jews: anti-Semitism, 40–1, 104–6; in Constantinople, 362; in Jerusalem, 326, 327, 328–31, 343–4; in Russia, 116, 124, 126–7, 174; Salonican emigration, 379; in USA, 173–5; in Vienna, 90, 101, 104–6, 152; in Winnipeg, 242; Zionism, 106, 329, 335–41

  Joachim, Greek Orthodox Patriarch, 361

  Joan of Arc, 37–8, 41

  Johnston, Harry, 377–8

  Joshi, Purushottam Balkrishna, 284–5

  Joyce, James, 9

  Juárez, Beníto, 208

  Jukichi Inouye, 418

  Kafka, Franz, 91

  Kahn, Albert, 183

  Kandinsky, Wassily, 9

  Karagöz shadow plays, 360

  Karsavina, Tamara, 257

  Katsura, Prince, 422, 423, 429–30

  Kelheim, 75

  Kelly, Ned, 248

  Kemal, Mustafa see Atatürk, Mustafa Kemal

  Kendall, Elizabeth, 351

  Kessler, Harry, 5, 451–2

  Kessler, Henri, 39

  Ketteler, Baron von, 386, 389

  Keynes, John Maynard, 6, 130, 287

  Khaled, Emir, 277, 278, 279

  Khalidi, Ruhi, 340

  Khaz’al, Sheikh, 323

  Kholodnaya, Vera, 129

  Kipling, Lockwood, 294

  Kipling, Rudyard, 141, 225–6, 289, 357, 439–40

  Kirka, 379

  Klein, Henri, 272

  Klimt, Gustav, 103

  Klipfell (French soldier), 58

  Koenigsmarck, Count Hans von, 289–90, 292

  Kokovstsov, Count, 111, 120

  Königgrätz, battle of (1866), 90

  Kongo (dreadnought), 411, 412

  Korea, 352, 426

  Kostroma, 111

  Kotwal, Ahmed, 299

  Kraus, Karl, 89, 98, 102, 104

  Kuhn, Walt, 62, 170

  Kuomintang (KMT), 403, 405, 407, 408–9

  labour movement and unions: Australia, 246–7; Argentina, 263, 264; Berlin, 65–6; Bombay, 292; Britain, 357, 441–2; European solidarity, 7–8; Japan, 419; Russia, 121; South Africa, 302–3

  Lagerlöf, Selma, 335

  Landor, Henry Savage, 386, 388–9

  lascars, 16

  Lascuráin, Pedro, 214

  Laurier, Sir Wilfred, 234, 238, 239

  Le Corbusier, 369

  Leacock, Stephen, 234

  League of Nations, 454, 455

  Leipzig, 75

  Leistikow, 243

  Lenin, Vladimir, 92–3, 97, 227

  Leonardo da Vinci, 44

  Letchworth, 24

  Liang Qichao, 389–91, 403

  Libya, 80, 273, 375–6

  Liman von Sanders, General, 380

  Lincoln, Abraham, 156

  Lind, John, 219

  Lloyd, Reginald, 252, 254, 262

  Lloyd George, David, 30

  Logan, James, 260

  London: agency buildings of colonies and dominions, 17–18; Australia House, 17–18; British attitude to, 23; City of London, 25–31, 27; Dreiser on, 59; financial role, 16, 25–31, 455; haphazard development, 22–4; hotels and restaurants, 19; international conferences, 49; internationalism, 15–22; labour militancy, 436, 441–2; Madame Tussaud’s, 20; overview, 15–36; population, 15; poverty in, 31–3; Royal United Services Museum, 20; the season, 18; suffragette violence, 444–6; Trafalgar Square, 24–5, 25; travelling to Paris from, 37

  London, Treaty of (1913), 379

  Longford, Joseph Henry, 415, 416

  Longyu, Chinese Dowager Empress, 409

  Loos, Adolf, 102

  Lorraine, 38–9, 72–3

  Los Angeles: development, 197–200; diversity, 196; film industry, 200–1, 202–4; oil, 194–6, 195; overview, 194–204; Owens River aqueduct, 198, 199; population, 198; port, 199; Spanish name, 204

  Los Angeles Investment Company, 200

  Loti, Pierre, 164–5, 377, 388, 415

  Low, Alfred Maurice, 148

  Lueger, Karl, 105, 106

  Lund, Niels Moeller: paintings by, 25–6, 27

  Lutaud, Governor General, 274–5

  Luxemburg, Rosa, 66, 275

  McAneny, George, 168

  MacDonald, Ramsay, 7, 21

  Mackinder, Halford, 120

  McKinley, William, 140, 204

  Madero, Francisco, 207–8, 211, 212–15, 218

  Madero, Gustavo, 214

  Mahler, Gustav, 101

  Mahomet, Sultan, 368

  Malevich, Kazimir, 123

  Manchuria, 115, 352, 406

  Manet, Édouard, 48

  Mann, Tom, 442

  Mannix, Daniel, 247–8

  manufacturing: mass production, 188–9

  Mao Zedong, 391

  Marconi company scandal, 30–1

  Marinetti, Filippo, 53, 78, 80, 81, 85–6

  Marx, Karl, 48, 270

  Mary, Queen of Great Britain and Ireland, 5, 284

  Masaryk, Thomas, 95

  Massis, Henri, 57–8

  Matisse, Henri, 53, 171, 272

  Matiushin, Michael, 123

  Maximilian, Mexican Emperor, 208

  Meidner, Ludwig, 61

  Meiji, Japanese Emperor, 354, 414, 421–2, 424

  Melbourne: aboriginal people, 248–9, 250–1; architecture, 245; attitude to British Empire, 228, 232–3; development, 244–6; and globalisation, 227; Irish and Catholics in, 248; labour movement and unions, 246–7; leisure and lifestyle, 246; overview, 244–51; population, 245

  Mescherskii, Vladimir, 125

  Métis people, 249–50

  Mexico: 1911–13 revolutions, 209–19; agriculture, 212; British attitude to problems, 448; oil, 207, 217, 323; race issues, 212; railways, 207; relations with USA, 206–8, 209–11, 212, 214–20

  Mexico City, 208–9, 209

  Michael, Tsar, 110, 112

  migration and immigrants: Australian attitude, 247, 427; Californian attitude, 197, 426–8; Canadian attitude, 243; South African attitude, 300; US attitude, 175–6, 455

  Millingen, Alexander van, 373–4

  Milner, Lord, 297, 433

  Minechiro Adachi, 217

  Mir iskusstva (World of Art; journal), 118

  Mirbeau, Octave, 5

  Mitchell, Major C. A., 236

  Modigliani, Amedeo, 9

  Mondragón, Manuel, 213

  money: currency exchange and Gold Standard, 27–8, 455; London’s financial role, 16, 25–31, 455; Paris’s financial role, 42; US Federal Reserve System, 180; Wall Street, 161, 178–9, 180

  Mongolia, 115, 406

  Monte Carlo, 6

  Montenegro, 376, 378

  Moretti, Gaetano, 261

  Morgan, Jack, 177

  Morgan, John Pierpont, 169, 176–81, 188, 390

  Morgenthau, Henry, 370

  Moritaro Abe, 429

  Morocco, 35

  Morrison, George Ernest, 388, 402

  motels, 185

  Motion Picture Patents Company, 202

  Motley, John Lothrop, 100

  Moyal, Shimon, 339

  Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus, 102

  Muhammad Ali Shah, 318, 319, 320

  Mumbai see Bombay

  Münsterberg, Hugo, 221

  music: internationalism, 8–9, 9–10; modernity, 103; ragtime, 33; in Vienna, 101–2, 103

  Musil, Robert, 91, 95

  Mussolini, Benito, 85, 87

  Muzaffar al-Din Shah, 318

  NAACP see National Association for the Advancement of Colored People

  Nabokov, Vladimir (journalist), 126

  Nabokov, Vladimir (novelist; son of the above), 128

  Naidoo, C. R., 302

  Naidoo, Thambi, 302

  Nanjing, 402, 403, 408, 428–9

  Na
oroji, Dadabhai, 286

  Napoleon III, French Emperor, 34, 83

  Nassar, Najib, 340

  Nasser al-Din Shah, 316, 317–18

  National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), 159

  nationalism, 8

  navies, of the Great Powers, 412

  Nelson, Horatio, 20

  Netherlands, 3

  New York: Bryce on, 145; corruption, 161–3; culture and entertainment, 164, 169–72, 202; development, 163; diversity, 172–6; electricity in, 164–5; financial role, 161, 178–9, 180; international conferences, 49; International Exhibition of Modern Art, 169–72; Metropolitan Museum, 177; overview, 161–81; philanthropy, 176–81; skyscrapers and other architecture, 165–9, 167; symbolism, 161; trade and industry, 163–4

  New Zealand, 190, 434–5, 437, 451

  New Zealand, HMS, 297

  Nice, 6, 81

  Nicholas II, Tsar, 11; and anti-Semitism, 127; attitude to Japanese, 115; cartoon, 352; character, 10, 125–6; Church of the Saviour on Spilled Blood inaugurated by, 119; death, 452–3; invisibility to the public, 127; at Kaiser’s daughter’s wedding, 10–12, 13; power, 112, 116; and Romanov tercentenary, 110–14, 123; theory of government, 125–6; village built by, 118

  Nietzsche, Friedrich, 8

  Nijinsky, Vaslav, 5, 257

  Nobel prizes, 43

  oil, 194–6, 195, 207, 217, 321–4

  Okakura Tenshin, 425

  Okuma, Count, 427, 428

  opium, 393–4, 395

  Orozco, Pascual, 211, 213

  Osanai Kaoru, 420

  Ottoman Empire: censorship, 340; end, 453; extent, 358; and First World War, 451; importance as world power, 350, 351, 352–3, 360, 363–8, 379–80; inhabitants’ attitude to, 227; Jerusalem as part of, 326–35; political system, 364–8, 379–80; railways, 351, 374; recent military struggles, 374–9; relations with Britain, 363–4, 365; relations with Germany, 364, 365, 380; relations with Russia, 115; status of foreigners in, 363; Young Turks, 353, 360, 364–8, 376, 377, 379–80; and Zionism, 335–41; see also Constantinople

  Ozaki Yukio, 413, 423, 426–7

  Pach, Walter, 170

  Page, Walter Hines, 140, 220

  Palestine: first aircraft landings, 325, 326; relationship between the different religions, 342–4; Zionism, 329, 335–41; see also Jerusalem

  Pallavicini, Marquis, 361

  Panama Canal, x, 139, 198–9

  Pankhurst, Emmeline, 21

  Pares, Bernard, 121–2

  Paris: artists in, 53–4; Bohemianism, 48–51; Bois de Boulogne, 43; Breton area, 152; Champs-Elysées, 44, 52; development, 22, 44–5; Dreiser on, 59; Eiffel Tower, 42, 43, 45, 46, 168; financial role, 42; French attitude to, 23; Hôtel Crillon, 44; international conferences, 49; Louvre, 44; Marais, 44; Montmartre, 52–3; most played composer, 9–10; overview, 43–54; Panthéon, 44; Paris Commune, 48–9; Place de la Concorde, 44; political radicalism, 47–8, 48–9; Sacré-Cœur, 44; as tourist trap, 51–3; travelling from London to, 37

 

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