Empires Apart (82 page)

bounty hunters,
157
,
231

bows and arrows,
64
,
94

boyars,
27
,
70
,
75–76
,
78

Bradford, William,
86
,
93
,
94

Brest-Litovsk, Treaty of,
350
,
393

Britain

America,
466–67

Canada,
278

cultural angst,
469

empire,
245
,
276
,
537

financial institutions,
532–33

industrialisation,
229

Iran,
451

media,
543

PFI,
538

Second World War,
426–27
,
431

Suez,
467

Victorians,
245

see also
England

British colonists,
158–59
,
278

Bulgaria,
485
,
503

Burr, Aaron,
179
,
207–8

Buryats,
121
,
122

Bush, George (Bush I),
493

Bush, George W. (Bush II),
79
,
90
,
209
,
245
,
267
,
477
,
487

business,
291–92
,
542–43
.
See also
corporations

Buwalda, William,
355
,
499

Byelorussia,
504

Cabot, George,
382

Cabot, John,
37

Cabot Lodge, Henry, the elder,
382
,
383

Cabot Lodge, Henry, the younger,
382

Cahokia,
30
,
32
,
42
,
151
,
344

California,
212
,
244
,
265

Calvert, George,
101

Cambodia,
475
,
482
,
484
,
488

Cameron, Ewen,
392

Canada,
151
,
152
,
153
,
209
,
210
,
278

capital, Russia,
314
,
315

capitalism,
310
,
320–21
,
422

Caribbean,
58
,
167
,
476

Carnegie, Andrew,
292–93
,
308

Carolina,
59–61

Carriles, Luis Posada,
487

cars,
371
,
506

Carter Doctrine,
491

Carter, Jimmy,
491–92

Cartier, Jacques,
150

Castro, Fidel,
477

catfish,
523

Catherine the Great,
141
,
143
,
173
,
181–85
,
198
,
201
,
217
,
267
,
270
,
301–3
,
340
,
367
,
394
,
396

Catholics,
101

Caucasus,
239
,
395

Central America,
241
,
242
,
366
,
368
,
476

Central Intelligence Agency,
438
.
See also
CIA

Châlons, battle of,
16–21
,
72

champagne,
15–16

Champlain, Samuel de,
151

charitable foundations,
308

Charles XII,
132–33

Charleston,
137

charters of incorporation,
364

Chechens,
239–40
,
493

Cherokees,
156
,
231
,
257

Cheyennes,
280–81

Chicago,
352

Chile,
402
,
480–81

China,
66
,
325–27
,
396
,
440

Chinese immigrants,
252
,
279

Chomsky, Noam,
498–99

Christianity,
24
,
33
,
90

Chukchi,
281
,
282

Churchill, Winston,
316
,
317
,
426
,
427
,
434
,
451

CIA (Central Intelligence Agency)

Chile,
480

Congo,
482

Guatemala,
450
,
456
,
457

Iran,
451

Italy,
438
,
446

Mitrione,
486

remit,
449

terror,
485

Cisneros, Rosa,
487

cities,
249

civil service, Russia,
125

civilisation,
49

Clayton-Bulwer Treaty,
148

Cleveland, Grover,
285–86
,
303
,
506

Coca-Cola,
308
,
368
,
411
,
474

cold war,
470

America and Russia,
482–84

documents,
476

perceptions,
472

roots of,
351

Russia,
470

Coligny, Admiral,
47
,
48

colonisation,
64
,
137

America,
46
,
48
,
53
,
54
,
91

Russia,
122–23
,
189
,
190
,
336

Colt, Samuel,
248

Columbus, Christopher,
33–36

commercial empire,
321

communism

America,
407

anti-imperialism,
444

Bolsheviks,
341

China,
440

Communist party,
421

development,
356–61

Europe,
438

global,
396

ideology,
422
,
505
,
546

communist imperialism,
361

Communist Manifesto (Marx and Engels),
358

Communist party,
341
,
359
,
390

Conestoga massacre,
157–58

conquest,
277

Constantine,
222

Contras,
487

Conway, Thomas,
172

Coolidge, Calvin,
398

corporate imperialism,
411
,
416

corporate rights,
363
,
371

corporations

development,
318–21

extensive operations,
445

informal empire,
484

political influence,
417

success of,
471

see also
business

corporatism,
361–74

democracy,
341
,
483–84
,
505
,
509
,
514

ideology,
372
,
374
,
422
,
515
,
528

oligarchy,
421

Russian opportunities,
405–6

corruption,
307–8
,
518–19

Cossacks,
107
,
120

Costa Rica,
241

cotton,
189
,
230
,
234
,
307
,
313
,
526–27

coups,
450
,
452–53
,
454
,
480
,
481

covert operations,
449
,
458

CPUSA,
407

Crazy Horse,
282

creationism,
40

Crimean War,
238

Crockett, Davy,
110
,
113–14

Crusade, Third,
65

Cuba,
243–44

Castro,
477

Guantanamo Bay,
291
,
521

independence,
291

Spanish American War,
276
,
287–90

Cuban Missile Crisis,
470

culture,
304

Cumberland, Duke of,
154

current account deficit,
538

Custer, George Armstrong,
280–81

Czechoslovakia,
437–38
,
446
,
503
,
541
,
542

Czolgosz, Leon,
335

Davenport, James,
101

Decatur, Stephen,
216

Decembrist conspirators,
222

Declaration of Armed Neutrality,
195

Declaration of Independence,
179–81

Delaware,
104

democracy

American Revolution,
170

corporatism,
341
,
483–84
,
505
,
509
,
514

foundations of,
146

home of, claims,
69

ideology of,
174
,
546

imperialism,
330

malleability,
339–40

representativeness,
514–15

term,
168

universality,
446

Democrats,
302
,
303

Denmark,
410
,
427

deportations,
391
,
464–65

depression,
424

determined opportunism,
220
,
513

Devlet Giray,
112

Devlin, Larry,
482

Dewey, George,
288
,
289
,
290

Dezhnov, Semyon,
118

dictators,
425

dictatorship,
349

diseases,
43
,
121

dissent

America,
497–501

Russia,
297–302
,
306
,
334–37
,
496–97
,
501

Dodge, Joseph,
440

Doenitz, Karl,
525

Dole, Samuel,
284
,
286

dollar, primacy of,
539–40

Dominican Republic,
331
,
332
,
333
,
413–14
,
500–503
.
See also
Hispaniola

Donskoy, Dmitri,
72

Douglas, Stephen,
260

Dulles, Allen,
438
,
456

Dulles, John Foster,
438
,
456

Dutch settlements,
102

dvoriane,
78–79

dvorianstvo,
136

Dyer, Mary,
99

Dzhenik,
120

East Germany,
503

East India Company,
49
,
161
,
363

East St. Louis Massacre,
344

economic growth,
306

economic imperialism,
532

economy

America,
228–30
,
315
,
436
,
494
,
530–34

Japan,
440

Russia,
436
,
465
,
494
,
495
,
505

Edward I,
77

efficiency, economics,
530–34

Egypt,
467

Eisenhower, Dwight D.,
467
,
494
,
552

El Salvador,
486–87

elections, presidential,
267
,
303
,
378–79

Elizabeth, Empress,
139
,
140

Elphinston, John,
191

Emancipation Proclamation,
262

emigrants.
See
immigration

emperors,
90
,
126

empire, term,
21

Encyclopaedia Britannica
,
32

Engels, Friedrich,
358

England,
91
,
96
,
98
.
See also
Britain

English colonies,
85
,
98
,
105

English empire,
48–49

English settlers,
44
,
48–56

Enron,
517

ethnic cleansing,
54
,
86
,
152
,
157

eugenics,
417

Europe

communism,
438

concept of,
20

conflicts,
152

imperialism,
274

nation states,
128

Russia,
112

western and eastern,
20–23

evolutionism,
40

executions,
99

Ezekiel, Moses,
254

Falklands,
217

Fallen Timbers, battle of,
186
,
197

Fallujah,
490

fascism,
444

Ferdinand,
33
,
34

Ferris, William,
433

Filaret,
130

filibusters,
232–33
,
241–44
.
See also
mercenary soldiers

‘final solution,'
266

finance,
551

financial crisis 2008,
524

financial institutions,
532–33

Finland,
202

Finns,
64–65
,
103
,
104

First World War

America,
338
,
351

Balkans,
334
,
346

Russia,
346

Flavius, Aetius,
17

Florida,
191
,
208–9
,
217–18
,
230
,
267