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in A. Revolution,
122–3
,
139
,
143–4
145
,
146–7
,
150
,
151
,
152
,
161–6
,
171–2

Stamp Act riots,
129–30

town-meeting,
155–6
,
159

Boston Massacre,
127
,
140
,
152–3

Boston police strike,
489

Boston Tea Party,
140
,
155–6
,
159
,
161
,
162
,
304

Boston University,
629

Bourbon, house of,
110–11
,
140
,
162

Bourbons, Southern,
426n

Boxer rebellion,
438

Boycotts,
421

Montgomery bus b.,
628
,
630

Braddock, Gen. Edward,
119
,
221

Bradford, William,
34n
,
37–40
,
49

Bragg, Gen. Braxton,
327
,
333

Brandeis, Mr Justice Louis Dembitz,
461
,
546
,
547
,
548

Brazil,
102
,
513

Breckinridge, John,
311

Brendan, Saint,
4

Bretton Woods Agreement,
577
,
582
,
670

Brewster, Elder William,
34
,
36

Bricker, Sen. John William,
602–3

Bridger, Jim,
245

Bristol,
101

Britain, British (
see also
England
;
Scotland
;
Wales
),
46
,
76–7
,
79–86
,
91–2
,
110
,
193
,
214
,
224
,
227
,
228
,
229
,
238
,
395
,
442
,
443
,
575
,
577
,
584
,
586
,
605
,
609
,
611
,
648
,
649

attitude to colonies,
80
,
118
,
142
,
143
,
150
,
160–61

political system,
113

A. attitude to,
153
,
164

policies towards A.,
157
; in War of A.

Revolution,
168–85
passim

A. relations with, 1815–
60
,
296

A. relations with, 1860–1914,
324
,
327
,
336
,
437

in First World War,
468–77
passim
,
480
,
481

and Versailles settlement,
488

between world wars,
499
,
508
,
556–7

in Second World War,
558–61
,
563
,
571
,
572–4
,
579
,
580

and cold war,
590
,
592

British Columbia,
298

British Empire,
75–6
,
79–86
,
89
,
132–3
,
165
,
176
,
204
,
253
,
260
,
276
,
436
,
438
,
439
,
470
,
488
,
495
,
578
,
589
,
619

and slavery,
101

cost of,
112–13

in 1763,
120

Western policy,
149

in War of A. Revolution,
181–2

dismantling of,
651–2

Brogan, Sir Denis William
viii
,
652

Brooke, Sen. Edward,
360n

Brooks, Cong. Preston,
305

Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters and Maids,
620

Brougham, Henry,
269

Brown, John,
285
,
305
,
308
,
309
,
310
,
626n

quoted
,
309

Brown, Joseph Emerson,
335

Brown
v.
Topeka Board of Education
,
625–8
,
644

Brownell, Herbert,
630

Bruce, Sen. Blanche Kelso,
360

Brunswick, House of,
155

Bryan, William Jennings,
431–2
,
442
,
459
,
463
,
465
,
470
,
472
,
595

cross of gold speech,
433

Bryce, James,
quoted
,
408n
,
413n

Brzezinski, Zbigniew,
680–81

Buchanan, James (Pres. 1857–
61
),
305
,
310
,
312–13

Budget, Bureau of the,
501
,
540

Director,
525–6
,
587

Office of Management and the B.,
501n

Budget, cult of the balanced,
527–8
,
548

Buena Vista, Battle of,
297

Buffalo (American bison),
56
,
223–4
,
225
,
245
,
247
,
379
,
380
,
421

Buffalo Bill
see
Cody, William Frederick

Building industry,
494
,
532
,
596
,
611

12
,
671

Bulge, Battle of the,
623

Bull Run, First Battle of,
321
,
322
,
324
,
606

Second Battle of,
327
,
655

Bullwhackers,
245

Bunche, Ralph,
625
,
636

quoted
,
620

Buncombe County,
693

Bunker Hill, Battle of,
172
,
190

Bunyan, John,
33
,
49
,
91
,
450

Pilgrim’s Progress
,
30
,
33
,
450n

Burford, Anne,
689

Burgoyne, Gen. John,
181
,
183
,
184

Burke, Edmund,
80
,
110
,
141
,
164
,
206

quoted
, on tea,
162

Burned-Over District,
232
,
236

Burnside, Gen. Ambrose Everett,
333
,
336–7

Burr, Aaron,
262n
,
263

Burroughs, Edgar Rice,
565

Bush, George Herbert Walker (Pres. 1989–
93
),
684
,
688
,
692
,
693

Business, businessmen,
304
,
384
,
386
,
388
,
389
,
390
,
393
,
403
,
408
,
417
,
440
,
444
,
528
,
562
,
577
,
597
,
603

b. confidence,
429
,
461
,
512
,
515

crime as b.,
502

b. and government,
447
,
492

small,
418

b. and progressivism,
446–7
,
448
,
451
,
465–6

b. and the 1929 Crash,
506–12

and New Deal,
528
,
531–4
,
535
,
545

in Second World War,
569

and civil rights movement,
633

Business cycle,
276
,
369
,
428
,
446
,
461

booms: post-Civil War,
385
; post-1896,
434
,
443
; First World War,
488
; twenties,
500–501
,
507–10
; Second World War,
567
,
623
; post-1945,
589–90
; canal,
383
; Southern oil,
616–17
; tobacco,
27

crises: post-1763,
129
; post-1783,
188–90
; 1819,
270
; 1837,
234–5
,
275
,
462
; 1839,
383
; 1857,
306–7
; 1873,
369
,
387
,
410
,
416
,
462
; 1893,
391
,
421
,
428
,
446
; 1907,
443
,
455
,
462
; post-1918,
488
,
492
; 1929,
382
,
446
,
510–11
,
616
,
see
Depression, Great

Bute, John Earl of,
74
,
111
,
130–31
,
140
,
141
,
151

Butler, Gen. Benjamin Franklin,
329
,
355n

Butler, Boss,
400–401

Butz, Earl,
667n

Byrd, William,
103
,
104

Bymes, James Francis,
569
,
618

Byron, George, Lord,
225

Cabinet,
205–6
,
260
,
263
,
305
,
316
,
325
,
330
,
477
,
482
,
504
,
512

Cabot, John,
6
,
14

Calhoun, John Caldwell,
254
,
266
,
271
,
272
,
274
,
275
,
290
,
291
,
292
,
293
,
295
,
297
,
299
,
303
,
548

California,
40
,
108n
,
236n
,
238
,
239
,
242
,
297n
,
299
,
301
,
361
,
395
,
459
,
538
,
544–5
,
564
,
612
,
663
,
667
,
672
,
686

Spanish colony,
52

US seizes,
298

gold-rush,
230
,
298

nativism in,
404
,
437

in Second World War,
566
,
568

since 1945,
587
,
591
,
660

tax-revolt,
675

Calley, Lt William,
656

Calvinists,
32
,
34
,
173

in 19th-c. South,
291

Cambodia,
653–4
,
661–2
,
664
,
671

Cambridge, Mass.,
49
,
119

Camden, Charles Pratt, Earl of,
161
,
164
,
211

Camel Corps, US army,
316n

Camp David, Maryland,
674

Canada,
8
,
52
,
165
,
166
,
168
,
176
,
181
,
182
,
183n
,
185
,
187
,
254
,
279
,
297
,
422
,
436
,
503
,
552

British conquest of,
79
,
86

Canals
see
Transport

Cane Ridge, Kentucky,
231

Canning, George,
255

Cannon, Lou,
684n

Cannon, Speaker Joseph Gurney,
456

Canterbury, Archbishops of Whitgift,
31

Bancroft,
31
,
33

Laud,
41
,
45
,
49

Secker,
119

Cape Breton island,
112
,
119

Cape Cod,
34
,
37
,
40

Capital,
12
,
365
,
382–4
,
386
,
391
,
415
,
422
,
423
,
443
,
446
,
512
,
530
,
577
,
621
,
637

Capitalism, American (
see also
Wall Street
),
381–92
,
446
,
459
,
462
,
506–12
,
518
,
531
,
549
,
582

finance,
392–3
,
461
,
463
,
506–12

and the South,
616

Capitalists,
15
,
258
,
290
,
362
,
368
,
372
,
389
,
406
,
407
,
411
,
420
,
423
,
446
,
457
,
512
,
516
,
536
,
621

Capone, ‘Scarface’ Al,
495
,
503n
,
643

Caribbean Sea and islands (West Indies), 2,
5
,
6
,
7
,
12
,
13n
,
28
,
47
,
52
,
75
,
83
,
84
,
89n
,
92
,
99
,
100
,
102
,
124
,
129
,
182
,
187
,
253
,
289
,
436
,
439
,
440

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