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by Brian Landers


  East St. Louis Massacre, 344

  economic growth, 306

  economic imperialism, 532

  economy

  America, 228–30, 315, 436, 494, 530–34

  Japan, 440

  Russia, 436, 465, 494, 495, 505

  Edward I, 77

  efficiency, economics, 530–34

  Egypt, 467

  Eisenhower, Dwight D., 467, 494, 552

  El Salvador, 486–87

  elections, presidential, 267, 303, 378–79

  Elizabeth, Empress, 139, 140

  Elphinston, John, 191

  Emancipation Proclamation, 262

  emigrants. See immigration

  emperors, 90, 126

  empire, term, 21

  Encyclopaedia Britannica, 32

  Engels, Friedrich, 358

  England, 91, 96, 98. See also Britain

  English colonies, 85, 98, 105

  English empire, 48–49

  English settlers, 44, 48–56

  Enron, 517

  ethnic cleansing, 54, 86, 152, 157

  eugenics, 417

  Europe

  communism, 438

  concept of, 20

  conflicts, 152

  imperialism, 274

  nation states, 128

  Russia, 112

  western and eastern, 20–23

  evolutionism, 40

  executions, 99

  Ezekiel, Moses, 254

  Falklands, 217

  Fallen Timbers, battle of, 186, 197

  Fallujah, 490

  fascism, 444

  Ferdinand, 33, 34

  Ferris, William, 433

  Filaret, 130

  filibusters, 232–33, 241–44. See also mercenary soldiers

  ‘final solution,’ 266

  finance, 551

  financial crisis 2008, 524

  financial institutions, 532–33

  Finland, 202

  Finns, 64–65, 103, 104

  First World War

  America, 338, 351

  Balkans, 334, 346

  Russia, 346

  Flavius, Aetius, 17

  Florida, 191, 208–9, 217–18, 230, 267

  forced sterilisation, 417

  foreign entrepreneurs, 313

  foreign investment, 314

  foreign policy (America)

  bipolarity, 448, 513

  communism, 441

  corporations, 517

  global supremacy, 492

  ideology, 431

  international forum, 384

  Marshall Plan, 441–42

  military force, 459–60, 489

  nature of, 322–23

  oil, 434, 443

  secrecy, 453

  Truman Doctrine, 447

  see also Monroe Doctrine

  foreign policy (Russia), 442

  foreigners, 525

  Forrestal, James, 449

  Fort Ross, 212, 213

  France, 150, 467

  Franklin, Benjamin, 311

  Frederick the Great, 188

  free market, 306, 484, 529, 533

  free speech, 373

  ‘free world,’ 473, 482

  freedom, 170, 180, 400, 483

  French America, 149–56, 200

  French Revolution, 178

  Frick, Henry, 352

  frontier spirit, 248–49

  frontiers, 106–7, 232, 277

  Fugitive Slave Act, 254

  Fukuyama, Francis, 508–9, 551

  furs, 120, 122, 152

  Gairy, Eric, 478

  Galbraith, John Kenneth, 500

  Gapon, Georgi, 335

  Garfield, James, 307

  Gazprom, 506–7

  Genghis Khan, 66

  genocide. See ethnic cleansing

  George III, 158

  Georgia (America), 265

  Georgia (Asia), 191, 395, 503, 508

  German immigrants, 252

  Germany, 286, 425, 436, 503

  Geronimo, 283

  Gerry, Eldridge, 520

  gerrymandering, 520

  glasnost, 495, 501

  globalisation, 220, 318, 423, 477

  Goldman, Emma, 357, 400–401

  Golovin, Pyotr, 120

  Gorbachev, Mikhail, 495, 501, 502, 504

  Gould, Jay, 308

  Grant, Ulysses S., 265, 271, 272, 318, 345

  Great Britain. See Britain

  Great Northern War, 132–34

  Great Terror, 390

  Greece, 427, 447

  greed, 245, 320

  Greenland, 34

  Grenada, 478–79

  Grigory (first False Dimitry), 82

  Guam, 276, 291

  Guantanamo Bay, 291, 521

  Guatemala, 450, 455–57

  Guevara, Che, 486

  gulags, 390–91

  Gulf Oil, 413, 455

  guns, 230, 289

  Guzman, Jacobo Arbenz, 450, 455

  Haiti, 243, 332–33. See also Hispaniola

  Hamilton, Alexander, 184, 187, 307

  Harrison, Benjamin, 303

  Harrison, William, 264

  Havana, 243, 289

  Hawaii, 275, 283–86, 370, 426, 429

  Hayes, Rutherford B., 318–19

  Haymarket Affair, 352

  health indicators, 535

  hegemony, 437

  Helga, 23

  Henry VIII, 77, 78

  Herjolson, Bjarni, 37

  Hispaniola, 35, 332, 377. See also Dominican Republic; Haiti

  history

  contemporary fame, 295

  continuities, 549–50

  ideology, 296

  individuals, 367

  modern paradigms, 272

  perceptions, 547–48

  rewriting, 421, 546

  role, 549

  Hitler, Adolf, 425

  Hopewell, 41

  Hopi, 52

  horses, 67

  Hudson’s Bay Company, 49, 152, 213

  Huguenots, 46–48

  Hungary, 236, 439, 474–75, 503

  Huns, 17

  Huron, 43–44

  ibn Saud, Abdul Aziz, 435

  idealism, 245

  ideological empire, 447

  ideology

  American empire, 513, 541

  American Revolution, 168, 174

  autocracy, 204

  communism, 422, 505, 546

  corporatism, 371, 374, 422, 515, 528

  democracy, 174, 546

  foreign policy, 431

  history of, 296

  manifest destiny, 244

  merging of different, 359, 361, 371

  Second World War, 430

  immigration, 53, 251–52, 279

  imperial overstretch, 551

  imperialism

  communist, 361

  corporate, 411, 416

  democracy, 330

  economic, 532

  Europe, 274

  military, 505

  neo-imperialism, 544–45

  psychological, 504

  Russia, 81, 123, 276–77

  imperialism (America)

  belief in difference of, 544–45

  corporatism, 361, 411

  determined opportunism, 220

  driven by, 81

  economic, 532

  global destiny, 331

  invisibilisation, 409–14

  manifest destiny, 95

  Monroe Doctrine, 214

  post civil war, 277

  territorial aggrandisement, 328, 414

  see also American empire

  imperialism (Russia), 81, 123, 274–75

  imperialists, 14, 124, 152, 208, 232, 274–75, 368, 394

  Incas, 37, 74

  Indian Appropriation Act, 280

  Indian Removal Act, 231

  Indians. See Native Americans

  indigenous people. See Native Americans; Siberian natives

  Indonesia, 485

  Industrial Workers of The World (IWW), 402


  industrialisation, 229–30, 252, 306–10, 312–14

  intelligence gathering, 449, 476

  international conventions, 522

  international law, 523, 527

  International Telephone and Telegraph Corporation (ITT), 480, 481

  investment, British empire, 537

  Iran, 437, 450–53, 541, 542

  Iraq, 439, 490, 511, 544

  Ireland, 102

  Irish Catholics, 255

  Irish immigrants, 251, 279

  Isabella, 33, 34

  Islam, 33

  Islamic civilisation, 66–67, 72

  isolationism, 444, 445

  Italy, 438, 449–50

  ITT (International Telephone and Telegraph Corporation), 480, 481

  Ivan III (the Great), 73, 111

  Ivan IV (the Terrible), 73–79, 112–13, 126

  IWW (Industrial Workers of The World), 402

  Jackson, Andrew, 207, 217, 223–26, 228, 316

  Jamestown, 52

  Japan

  America, 426, 433, 436, 440

  American support, 323

  economy, 440

  foreigners, 217

  Philippines, 291

  Russia, 324, 327

  Jedwardson, Erik, 103

  Jefferson, Thomas, 168, 193, 207, 244, 247

  Jeffreys, Sir Herbert, 56

  Jews, 100, 271, 323, 343, 345, 418–19

  Johnson, Lyndon B., 488

  Johnson, Richard, 264

  Johnston, Joseph E., 266

  Jones, John Paul, 192–93

  Joseph, King of Spain, 204

  justice, 245, 520–30

  Kalb, Johan, 172

  Katyn massacre, 465

  Kay, John, 530–31

  Kazakhstan, 492

  Keith, Minor Cooper, 366–67

  Kennedy, John F., 470, 551

  Kentucky, 547

  KGB, 457, 485

  Khruschev, Nikita, 465

  Kiev, 26, 70

  Kipling, Rudyard, 276

  Kirgizstan, 503

  Kissinger, Henry, 323

  Komi, 414–15

  Korea, 217, 325, 326

  Korean War, 472–73, 475, 491

  kormlenie, 125

  Kosciuszko, Tadeusz, 173, 193, 196–97, 199, 202, 206

  Kossuth, Lajos, 237

  Kowalevski, Sophie, 311

  Kronstadt, 387

  Kuchum, 115, 116

  Kulikovo, battle of, 71–73

  La Salle, René, 151

  labour unrest, 351–56, 404

  Lafayette, Marquis de, 172

  Lakoba, Nestor, 463

  Lakota Sioux, 282, 283

  land, attitude to, 219–20

  Langéron, Comte de, 175

  languages, 501

  Lansing, Robert, 350

  leaders, power transfer, 198

  League of Nations, 384

  Lee, Henry, 209

  Lee, Robert E., 265

  left

  America, 337, 342, 408, 448

  authority, 444

  Russia, 302, 342

  see also communism; socialists

  Lehman Brothers, 524

  Lend-Lease Program, 428–29, 431–32

  Lenin, Vladimir

  Bolsheviks created, 341, 357

  brother’s execution, 283

  career, 359

  death, 388

  Marxism, 393, 396

  October Revolution, 348–49

  strikes, 353

  Taylorism, 406

  Leninism, 357

  Lexington, 162, 163

  liberation movements, 287, 444

  liberty. See freedom

  Lili’uokalani, Queen, 284

  limited liability, 363–64

  Lincoln, Abraham

  American Civil War, 254, 259–61

  civil rights, 272

  Emancipation Proclamation, 262

  Hungary, 237

  Jews, 345

  memory of, 266–67, 316

  Lingan, James, 210

  Listev, Vladislav, 508

  Lithuania, 129

  Little Bighorn, battle of, 280, 281

  Little Turtle (Michikinikwa), 186

  Lobachevski, Nikolai, 311

  local regimes, 446

  Lomonosov, Mikhail, 311

  Long, Huey ‘Kingfish,’ 424–25

  Long, James, 233

  Lopez, Narcisco, 243

  Louisburg, 153–55

  Louisiana, 151, 152, 200

  Lumumba, Patrice, 482

  lynchings, 345, 418

  Lysenko, Trofim, 391–92

  Maciejowice, battle of, 196–97

  Mackenzie, Alexander, 213

  Macready, William, 240–41

  Madison, James, 208, 209

  Madoc ab Owan Gwynedd, 38–39

  Maine, 288

  Mainwaring, Henry, 45

  Malvinas, 217

  Manchuria, 327

  manifest destiny

  America, 95–96, 181, 244

  Russia, 129, 181

  Mansur, Sheikh, 239

  Marcy, William Learned, 227

  Marshall Plan, 441–42

  Marx, Karl, 358

  Marxism, 358–60, 396–97

  Maryland, 53, 102

  Masaryk, Jan, 437, 438

  mass murder, 484

  Massachusetts, 53, 179

  Massachusetts Bay Company, 98–99

  massacres

  Conestoga, 157–58

  East St. Louis, 344

  Katyn, 465

  My Lai, 491

  Mystic, 86, 88

  No Gun Ri, 491

  Sand Creek, 280

  see also pogroms

  Mayflower, 92–93

  McCarthy, Joseph, 497

  McKinley, William, 286, 288, 289, 317, 335

  media, 352–53, 439, 479, 543–44

  Mediterranean, 216

  Medvedev, Dmitry, 551

  Mendelev, Dmitri, 311

  Menendez, Pedro de, 47, 48

  mercenary soldiers, 172–73. See also filibusters

  Mexico, 233, 235–36, 243, 376, 528, 534

  Michikinikwa (Litte Turtle), 186

  Middle East, 437, 450–53

  military force

  America, 424, 459–60, 489, 492, 493

  Russia, 489

  military imperialism, 505

  military leaders, 264

  Miniconjou Sioux, 282

  Minuit, Peter, 104

  Miranda, Francisco de, 187

  Mississippi, 190

  Mississippian culture, 42–43

  Mitrione, Dan, 486

  modern values, 272

  Moldova, 503

  Molly Maguires, 351, 355

  Mongolia, 396

  Mongols, 65–68, 70–72

  Monk, Maria, 223

  monopolists, 321

  Monroe Doctrine

  Canada, 278

  Carter Doctrine, 491

  legal theory, 524

  origin, 214, 447, 476

  Roosevelt Corollary, 332

  Wilson, 384

  Monroe, James, 214

  Montojo, Patricio, 289

  Moors, 33

  Morgan, Henry, 45–46

  Morgan, John Pierpoint, 308

  Morison, Samuel Eliot, 89, 309

  Mosaddeq, Mohammed, 450–54

  Moscow, 203

  Moskvitin, Ivan, 117

  Mueller, Gerhard, 27–28

  Muravyev, Nikolay, 325

  murder, mass, 484

  Muscovy, 111

  Muscovy Company, 49

  My Lai massacre, 491

  Myers, Abraham, 271

  Mystic Massacre, 86, 88

  Napoleon, 200–206

  nationalism, 412

  Native Americans, 39–43

  campaigns against, 156–58, 265, 275, 280–83

  diseases, 44, 52

  English settlers, 51, 54

  Fallen Timbers, 197

  Florida, 230

/>   Indian Removal Act, 231

  land, 219–20

  New England, 86–91

  Tippecanoe, 208

  treaties with, 186, 280

  War of 1812, 217

  wars, 87, 217

  native leaders, 123

  native religions, 122

  navy, 215–17, 402–3, 492

  Negroponte, John, 487

  neo-imperialism, 444–45

  New England, 86–89, 91–101, 105, 187

  New Orleans, battle of, 210–11

  New Sweden, 104

  New York, 102, 249

  Nicaragua, 241, 410, 487

  Nicholas I, 199, 222, 236

  Nicholas II, 199

  abdication, 346

  Asia, 324

  assassination attempt, 335

  autocracy, 342

  Duma, 345

  Manchuria, 327

  October Manifesto, 336

  pogroms, 343

  role as tsar, 317

  Nixon, Richard M., 480, 488, 489

  No Gun Ri massacre, 491

  nobility, 135–36

  North Ossetia, 543

  north-south divide, America, 206–7

  Novgorod, 13, 22, 69–70, 76

  Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, 502

  Obama, Barack, 550–51

  October Manifesto, 336

  October Revolution, 348

  oil

  America, 433–34, 443, 491, 492

  corporations, 312, 370, 413, 434, 493

  Iran, 451

  markets, 539–40

 

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