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Islamic attitude to
68
,
86

Pritchard, Jack
136

property rights
13
,
97
,
99
,
111
,
125
,
152
,
288

in British North American colonies
106–7
,
106
n,
109–12
,
115–16
,
117
,
124–5
,
138
; headright system
111

John Locke on
111
,
112

slaves as property
132
,
135–6

in Spanish South American colonies
102
,
113–14
,
119
,
124
,
128

Protestantism
106
,
107
,
114
,
259
,
264

British North American colonies as Protestant
106
,
114

in China
277–80
,
282–8
; radical sects
285–6

evangelical, in US
273–4

missionaries
263–4
; in China
277–80
,
282–3

Max Weber on
259
,
260–64
,
276
,
283

see also
Christianity

Protestant work ethic
see
work ethic

Prussia
144
,
159
,
214

Berlin
75–6
,
86

the Enlightenment
76–9
,
81

under Frederick the Great
71
,
73–85

Islamic envoys in
86

political system
73
,
80

Potsdam
81–8
; Sanssouci palace
73–4
,
79

religious toleration
76
,
78

Silesia, invasion of
74–5

Prussian Academy of Science and Belle-Lettres
79
,
80
,
81

Prussian army
74–5
,
81–2
,
91

public health
147
,
148
,
177
,
205

in French West Africa
171–2

see also
health issues

Puerto Rico
144

Punch
169

Quebec Act (1774)
116

Quesnay, François, on China
46

Quigley, Carroll
3
,
297–8

his ‘Rhodes–Milner group’ theory
298
n

Tragedy and Hope …
298
n

racial issues

in French West Africa
174–5

in German colonies
176
,
177–8

interbreeding (miscegenation)
133–6
; in French colonies (
métissage
)
164

in South America
119
,
120
,
125–6
,
133
,
135

in US
129
,
133
,
134–6
,
137–9
; Civil Rights movement
245
; segregation
137–8
,
177

racial theory
see
eugenics

railways
170
,
171
,
204
,
215
,
218
,
224

Reagan, Ronald
252

Reche, Otto
189

Redhouse, James
89

Reformation
9
,
38
,
60–62
,
67
,
259

see also
Luther, Martin

religious issues
3
,
8
,
17
,
266–7

atheism
8
,
289

Christianity
see
Christianity

Freud on
270–71
,
273

Islam
see
Islam

science/technology and
67–8

Adam Smith on
276

religious toleration
76
,
78
,
114

religious tracts/publications
61–3

see also
individual authors

religious wars/conflict
9
,
12
,
38–9

French revolution as
151
,
152
,
153
,
154

Islamic
71

Resmi Efendî, Ahmed
86–7

revolution
162–3
,
164
,
227–8
,
244
,
246
,
251–2

by students/young people
245–9

see also
individual revolutions

Rhodes, Cecil
298
n

Ricardo, David, his comparative advantage doctrine
202
,
202
n

Ricci, Matteo, SJ, in China
41

Richard II, King of England
23–4

Richard, Timothy
282

Richard of Wallingford
41

Richardson, Lewis Fry
301–2
,
301
n

Rivera, Diego:
The Arsenal
(painting)
162
n

Roberts, Richard
200

Robespierre, Maximilien
156

Robins, Benjamin
83–4

New Principles of Gunnery
83

on rifled gun barrels
84

rock and roll/ popular music
230
,
243–4
,
246
,

249–50
,
273
,
274

Rohrbach, Paul von
181

German Colonial Economics
176

Roman Catholicism
see
Catholicism

Roman Empire
16–17
,
296

Gibbon on
257–9
,
291–2

Romania
251

Roosevelt, President Franklin Delano
xxiv
,
230

Rosa, Salvator:
L’umana fragilatà
(painting)
26

Rosenberg, Alfred
193

Ross, Ronald
169–70

Rothschild, Nathan
161

Roume, Ernest, Governor of French West Africa
170–71

Rousseau, Jean-Jacques
155
,
156

Social Contract
78
,
151–2

Royal Observatory, Greenwich
70

Royal Society of London
69–70
,
80
,
83
,
84

Copley Medal
84

Ruiz-Linares, Andrés
133

Russia/Soviet Union
7
,
83
,
156
,
303

economic growth
231–2

expansion of
144

exploration of
36

France and
160

Germany and
192
,
194
,
231–2
: in Second World War
233–4

under Gorbachev
250

Japan and
226

legal system
244

Napoleon Bonaparte and
160

nationalism in
182
,
227–8

US and
236
; Cold War
236–9
,
250

as a Western civilization
15

Russian army
234

Russian Revolution (1917–18)
182
,
227–8

Russo-Japanese War (1904)
226

Safavid empire
9

St Alban’s Abbey
27
,
41

Saint-Domingue (island)
160

Saint-Exupéry, Antoine de:
The Little Prince
90

Sandys, George
283

sanitation
23
,
147
,
179

see also
health issues

Schacht, Hjalmar
231

Schaudinn, Fritz
175–6

Schiller, Friedrich
77
,
79

Schubert, Franz
xxiii

Schubert, Helmut
194

Schularick, Moritz
xvii

Schumpeter, Joseph
205

science/technology
7
,
10–11
,
12
,
14
,
50–95
,
257
,
287

advances in/spread of
41–2
,
47
,
57
,
60–71
,
216–18
,
317–18
; chronology of
65–6
; as Eurocentric
67

astronomy
64
,
65
,
66
; Islamic
68–9

ballistics
83–5

Chinese
11
,
27–8

definition
13

in East Asia
4
,
11

gravity, law of
70

Industrial Revolution
see
Industrial Revolution

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