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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

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