Versailles, Treaty of, 382
Vespucci, Amerigo, 35–37
Victorians, 245
Vienna, Congress of, 206
Vietnam, 534
Vietnam War, 472–74, 486, 488
Vikings, 22–23, 28, 144
Virginia, 52, 54, 55, 97
Vladimir, 24, 25
Vladivostok, 325
Volga, 64–65, 190, 191
Vorkuta, 415
Walker, William, 241
war, 263, 265, 482, 489–91
War Between the States. See American Civil War
War of 1812, 210–11, 217
War of Austrian Succession, 153
War of Rebellion, 265
War of Spanish Succession, 152–53
Warsaw, 196, 232, 394
Washington, George
American Revolution, 164, 166
New Connecticut, 171
Ohio, 155
president, 181
slavery, 247
wealth, 155, 190
Waterloo, battle, 205
wealth, 310, 535, 536
wealth transfers, 536
Webster, Daniel, 284
Welshofer, Lewis, Jr., 523
West Indies, 58
Whitney, Eli, 230
Wilde, Oscar, 297
Williams, Roger, 100
Wilson, Woodrow, 245, 379–82, 384
Winthrop, John, 96, 99
women, 250, 301, 311, 379, 399–400
Wounded Knee, battle of, 282
Wyatt, Sir Francis, 54
Yalta Conference, 427, 434, 437
Yaroslav the Wise, 64
Yastrzhembsky, Sergei, 508
Yazoo Land Fraud, 190
Yeamans, Sir John, 59–60
Yeltsin, Boris, 507
Yermak Timofeyevich, 111, 113–15
Yugoslavia, 439, 503
Zasulich, Vera, 297–98
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Table of Contents
Cover Page
Title Page
CONTENTS
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
FOREWORD BY ANDREAS WHITTAM SMITH
CHAPTER 1: RURIK’S LAND
The Influence of Champagne
West and East Divide
The Coming of Christ
Russian History: True or False?
CHAPTER 2: AMERIGO’S LAND
Spanish Exploration and Conquest
Before Columbus
The Scramble for America
The English and Civilisation
Slavery
CHAPTER 3: LEGACY OF THE MONGOL TERROR
The Mongols
From Novgorod to Kulikovo
Ivan the Terrible
Russia after Ivan
CHAPTER 4: LEGACY OF THE MYSTIC MASSACRE
Frying Natives
Thanksgiving
Pilgrims and Puritans
Between God and Slave
CHAPTER 5: RUSSIA BETWEEN WEST AND EAST
Yermak Timofeyevich: King of the Wild Frontier
The Eastern Frontier
Life in the Wild East
Empire
The First Romanovs
CHAPTER 6: AMERICA BETWEEN EAST AND WEST
The Rule of Law
French America
Prelude to Revolution
The American Rebellion
Thomas Paine and Tadeusz Kosciuszko
CHAPTER 7: THE EMPIRES GET GOING
Enlightenment: Russian and American Style
Territorial Aggrandisement
Tadeusz Kosciuszko and the Polish Question
Napoleon and Alexander
The 1812 Overtures
CHAPTER 8: DETERMINED OPPORTUNISM AND CONQUEST
King Andrew
A Time for Guns
Manifest Destiny: Chechnya to Cuba
The Road to Civil War
CHAPTER 9: MORE CONQUEST
The War Between the States
Slaves and Serfs
To the Little Bighorn and Anadyrsk
Empire Marches On
CHAPTER 10: SOUL SEARCHING
Dissidents
The Soul of Industry
New Model Empires
Territory Belonging to the United States
CHAPTER 11: COMMUNISM AND CORPORATISM
Bolshevism Arrives
Come the Revolution
Communism Arrives
Corporatism: A Digression
Ideologies in Transition
CHAPTER 12: EMPIRES OLD AND NEW
The New Tsars: Lenin and Stalin the Terrible
The Bolshevik Empire
The Red Menace
Corporatism v. Communism
The Invisibilisation of Empire
CHAPTER 13: HOT AND COLD RUNNING WAR
Allies Apart
Empires Re-Emerge
Bipolarity
Regime Change
Russian Regime Change – The Death of the Ultimate Tsar
CHAPTER 14: WINNING THE WAR THAT WASN’T
Hot War, Cold War, Phoney War
Monroe Marches On
The Use of Force
More Dissidents
The End of the Russian Empire?
CHAPTER 15: PAX AMERICANA
American Democracy
American Justice
American Efficiency
America Delivers
From Invisible Empires to the Neo-Empire
The Lessons of History
BIBLIOGRAPHY
INDEX
Copyright Page
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