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French Revolution
119
,
142
,
149–57
,
161–2

Edmund Burke on
149
,
150–52
,
152
n,
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
177
n

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

illiteracy
see
literacy rates

imperialism
8–10
,
13
,
14
,
15
,
142–95
,
302–3

in Africa
14
,
139
,
145
,
146
,
148
,
163–75
;
see also individual countries

in America
see
America …

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