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Braudel, Fernand, on civilization(s)
xxv–xxvi
,
3

Brazil
17
,
127
,
130
,
139

slavery in
130–32
,
133

Brazzaville Conference (1944)
195

Britain
12
,
14
,
161
,
201
,
202

Simón Bolívar, support for
121–2
,
125

Christianity, decline of
267–70

financial system
161
,
219

France and
140
,
160
,
161
,
173

Industrial Revolution
10
,
13
,
21
,
28–9
,
70
,
199–200
,
203–5

legal system
202–3

living standards
210–11

London
see
London

political system
202–3

in Second World War
234

see also
England
;
Scotland

British army
233–4

British East India Company
38
,
83
,
161
,
201
,
278

British empire
142
,
164
,
263–4

in Africa
148
,
168
,
173
,
176

in America
see
America, North, British colonies

decline of
163
,
303

extent of
142

in India
144
,
169–70
,
264

Jamaica
148

property rights
125

Bruckner, Anton
xxiii

Bruegel, Pieter (the Elder):
The Triumph of Death
(painting)
25–6

Brunelleschi, Filippo
60

Burke, Edmund

on American Revolution
149

on French Revolution
149
,
150–52
,
152
n,
155
,
156

Burnett, Leo
241

Burns, Robert
xxiii–xxiv

Busbecq, Ogier Ghiselin de
9
,
53

Bush, George W.
xvi
,
xvii

Butterfield, Herbert
xxi

Byron, Lord George
74
,
121

Byzantine empire
3
,
4
,
17
,
52

Cajamarca, battle of (1532)
100
,
101

Callot, Jacques:
Miseries of War
(engravings)
12

Canada
116
,
119
,
125

see also
America, North, British colonies

Cápac, Manco
100

capitalism
7
,
11
,
14
,
15–16
,
205
,
207–8
,
210–11
,
219
,
246
,
262–3
,
288

development of
263
; in China
17
,
252–3
,
277
,
304
,
306–8

in Great Depression
229–31

Carabobo, battle of (1821)
122
,
123

Caribbean area
10
,
97
,
119
,
120
,
123
,
148

slavery in
131

Carlyle, Thomas, on the cash nexus
206

Cartwright, Edmund
200

Castellani, Aldo
170

Catholicism
17
,
61
,
259
,
260
,
263
,
266
,
269
,
278

in Spanish American colonies
113–14
,
120
,
120
n,
131

Cavour, conte Camillo Benso de
214

Caxton, William
61

Celsus:
De re medica
62–3

Chancellor, Richard
36

Chanoine, Julien
166

Charles I, King of England
194
,
106
,
107
,
152

Charmes, Gabriel
165

Chávez, Hugo
128

Chesterton, G. K.

on religion
288
,
289

Short History of England
268

Chiang Kai-shek
283

‘Chimerica’
xvii
,
315–16

China
xv
,
xviii
,
4
,
5
,
9
,
12
,
13
,
16
,
19–22
,
23

Africa and
32
,
154–5

Beijing
4
,
5
,
20
,
22
,
44

Boxer Rebellion
282–3

capitalism in
17
,
252–3
,
277
,
304
,
306–8

Christianity in
see
Protestantism
below

Confucian philosophy
21
,
27
,
32
,
43
,
164
,
286

Cultural Revolution (1964–76)
283
,
294

decline of
44–9
,
57

education in
43

England and
47–9

exploration, voyages of
28–33
,
48

geography
36–7

Great Leap Forward (1958–62)
283

Great Wall
42

India and
29
,
32

industrialization
225
,
284
,
285

Japan and
226
,
233
,
234

Leibniz on
46

linguistic issues
43

living standards
21–2
,
26–8
,
44
,
210–11
,
304

Montesquieu on
20–21
,
77

Nanjing
21
,
22
,
23
,
43

political system
42–3
,
283
,
284

population figures
10
,
20–21
,
44

Portugal and
35

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

François Quesnay on
46
,
77–8

Adam Smith on
19
,
20
,
46
,
78

Taiping Rebellion
211
,
279–80
,
285

trade: internal
22
,
23
; external
29
,
31
,
35
,
47
,
48

Voltaire on
46

Max Weber on
27
,
264

Wenzhou
284–5

Westerners in: Earl Macartney
21
,
47
; Marco Polo
21–2
,
27
; Matteo Ricci
41

as a world power
257
,
295–325
; problems faced by
319–22

Yangzi river
21
,
48
; Grand Canal
21–2
,
48

Chinese Academy of Social Sciences
287

Chinese empire
29
,
31

Chinese Revolution (1949)
283

Chinese science/technology
11
,
27–8

cholera
148
,
169

Christianity
258–9

the Bible
62
,
263
,
278–9
,
293–4

Calvinism
260

Catholicism
17
,
61
,
259
,
260
,
263
,
266
,
269
,
278
; in Spanish American colonies
113–14
,
120
,
120
n,
131

church/state relationship
60
,
289–90

civilization and
268
,
288

decline of, in the West
267–73
,
274
,
288–9

missionaries
39
,
142
,
263–4

Orthodox
15

Protestantism
see
Protestantism

Reformation
9
,
38
,
60–62
,
67
,
259

in US
267
,
270
,
273–7

Max Weber on
259
,
260–64

see also
religious issues
;
religious wars

Churchill, Winston
238–9
,
240
,
303

on civilization
98
,
139
,
325

cities, development/growth of
2–3
,
5
,
205
,
215
,
304–5

Citroën
190

Civil Rights movement (USA)
245

civil society concept
78

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