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INDEX

abortion,
251

Adams, John,
175
,
224

Adams, John Quincy,
179
,
218
,
224
,
228
,
244

Afghanistan,
98
,
502
,
503

Africa,
333

agriculture,
211

Aguinaldo, Emilio,
290
,
291

AIOC (Anglo-Iranian Oil Company),
451

Alaska,
175
,
185
,
212

Albright, Madeleine,
454

Aleuts,
124

Alexander I,
199
,
205

and Arakcheyev,
221

Poland,
206

Russia's role,
211
,
212
,
215

Alexander II,
199

assassinated,
297

Chechens,
239

Poland,
232

role as tsar,
260

serfdom,
267
,
269

Alexander III,
199
,
304

Alexis,
129

Allende, Salvador,
480

America

American dream,
469
,
514
,
530
,
539

anti-communism funding,
439

bipolarity,
444
,
448
,
511

business,
291
,
308–9
,
542

colonisation,
46
,
48
,
53
,
54
,
91

commercial empire,
321

corruption,
306
,
307

current account deficit,
538

dissent,
497–501

economic growth,
306

economic imperialism,
532

economy,
26
,
161
,
228–30
,
315
,
429
,
436
,
464
,
541

English settlers,
51
,
54
,
61
,
106
,
116
,
143

First World War,
245
,
278
,
298
,
391
,
398

fledgling nation,
179

foreign investment,
314

French,
150–56

global spread,
471

health indicators,
535

ideological empire,
447

immigration,
49
,
97–98

independence,
175

industrialisation,
229–30
,
250
,
306–10

influence of,
376
,
416

isolationism,
444
,
445

justice,
245
,
520–30

labour unrest,
351–53
,
356

Lend-Lease Program,
428–29

manifest destiny,
95–96
,
181
,
244

military force,
423
,
458–59
,
489
,
492

military leaders,
264

as nation state,
111

navy,
193
,
195
,
216
,
403–4
,
492

north-south divide,
207

October Revolution,
348
,
350
,
405
,
408

party politics,
329

perceptions of,
89
,
345

pogroms,
334
,
344
,
345

political life,
181
,
183
,
223
,
494
,
518–19

population growth,
251

presidents,
90
,
183
,
198
,
215
,
316
,
387
,
398
,
448
,
463
,
549

Puritans,
88–91
,
92–94
,
96–98
,
187

railways,
279
,
310
,
379
,
412

regime change,
450–56
,
480

religion,
187
,
257
,
547

rights of man,
219

rule of law,
144–46
,
520

scramble for,
43–48

Second World War,
426
,
428
,
431

social and political turmoil,
399

socialists,
337–38
,
354
,
399

Spanish American War,
276
,
287–91

Spanish exploration,
32–39

spoils system,
226–28
,
519

superpower status,
327
,
443

territorial expansion,
185–89
,
206
,
253

terror,
486–90

urbanisation,
249
,
251

values,
247
,
257
,
445

War of,
210–11
,
217

wars, approach to,
263
,
265

wealth,
535
,
536

wealth transfers,
540

women,
250

as world power,
216

see also
corporations; corporatism; democracy; foreign policy (America); imperialism (America); Monroe Doctrine; Native Americans; oil; oligarchs; Pilgrims; slavery

America and Russia

cold war,
482–84

colonisation,
64
,
137

differences between,
64
,
144
,
177
,
310
,
436

empires,
541–42

ideologies,
422

oligarchs,
374–75

parallels,
177
,
351

perceptions of pasts,
432

psychological imperialism,
504

Second World War,
423–24

superiority,
81

superpowers,
436

zones of influence,
437

American Civil War,
249
,
254
,
258
,
269–70
,
274
,
287
,
296
,
313
,
351

American dream,
469
,
514

American empire

ideology,
513
,
541

non-existence,
109
,
512
,
541–42

phrase,
109

terminology,
109–10

territorial sense,
493

see also
imperialism (America)

American Revolution,
160–62
,
178
,
180

American War of Independence.
See
American Revolution

Americanism,
411–12

Ames, Oakes,
270

Amur,
325

Anadyrsk,
274
,
281–82

anarchists,
357

Andropov, Yuri,
494
,
495

Angleton, James,
458

Anglo-Iranian Oil Company (AIOC),
451

Anna (Duchess of Kurland),
139

Anna (Vladimir's wife),
25–26

annexations,
191
,
234

Anti-Imperialist League,
296

anti-semitism,
343–44
,
345
,
418

apartheid doctrine,
273

Arakcheyev, Alexander,
221

Arapahos,
280

aristocracy.
See
nobility

Armenia,
503

arrows,
64
,
67
,
94

Asda,
538

Asia,
324
,
444
,
552

assassinations,
334
,
345
,
471
,
486
,
508

Atlanta,
265

atomic bomb,
440
,
443
,
472

Attila the Hun,
17
,
236
,
396

Austin, Moses,
233

Austro-Hungarian empire,
236
,
383

autocracy

acceptance of,
80
,
223
,
517

advocate of,
304–5

ideology,
204

Russian imperialism,
81
,
123

serfs,
269

tsarist control,
306

Ayn Julut (Nazareth), battle of,
66–67
,
72

Bacon, Nathaniel,
54–55

Balkans,
333
,
334
,
346
,
427

Baltic colonies,
503

bananas,
456

Barbados,
53
,
255

Baring, Alexander,
200

Baruch, Bernard,
369
,
412

Batista, Fulgencio,
477

battles

Ayn Julut (Nazareth),
72

Châlons,
17–21
,
33
,
41
,
72

Fallen Timbers,
186
,
197

Havana,
288

Kulikovo,
69–73

Little Bighorn,
248
,
274
,
280–82
,
477

Maciejowice,
196–97

New Orleans,
207
,
210–11

Tippecanoe,
208
,
264

Warsaw,
394

Waterloo,
205

Wounded Knee,
282

Bayonet Constitution,
284

Beketov, Pyotr,
124

Belarus,
503

Benjamin, Judah,
271–72

Beothuk,
156

Beria, Lavrenti,
443
,
462–65
,
494–95

Bering, Vitus Jonassen,
118–20

Berkeley, William,
55–56

Bermuda,
51
,
167
,
426
,
478

Berringer, Benjamin,
59–60

Beveridge, Albert,
244
,
263
,
328
,
330
,
331
,
349
,
499–500

bipolarity,
444
,
448
,
511

Bishop, Maurice,
478–79

black people,
272
,
273
,
344
,
379
,
418
.
See also
slavery

Black Sea,
191

Bloody Sunday, St. Petersburg,
335

Bolsheviks

consolidation,
416

empire,
393–98

October Revolution,
348–50

origin,
341

popularity,
386

protests against,
387

Russian Revolution,
356

Bonnie Prince Charlie,
154

Bosch, Juan,
500–501

Boston Tea Party,
29
,
159
,
161
,
162