Civilization: The West and the Rest (84 page)

as a secular state
92
,
253

see also
Ottoman empire

Twain, Mark, on imperialism
144

Tyndale, Matthew
62

Uganda
170

Ulugh Beg
69

unemployment
230–31
,
232
,
265
,
265
n

see also
labour market

United Kingdom
see
Britain

United Provinces
39
,
104

see also
Low Countries

United States (US)
xvi
,
5
,
15
,
16

Christianity in
267
,
270
,
273–7

colonial expansion
144

economic growth/output
xvi
,
218
,
307–12

in First World War
182–3

Great Depression
229–31

Gullah Coast
135–6

Japan and
221
; in Second World War
233–5

migrants to
219
; South Americans
138–9

population figures
218

property rights
124

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

Russia and
236
; Cold War
236–9

St Louis World Fair (1904)
260–61

in Second World War
233–5

slavery in
129
,
130
,
132–3
,
134–6

student unrest
245

trade with
218–19

Max Weber in
260–61

as a world power
xvi–xvii
,
97
,
218
,
257
,
307–12

see also
America, North, British colonies
;
American …

United States Army
234–5

university education
7
,
17–18
,
92
,
175
,
244–5

urbanization
see
cities

Vaquette de Gribeauval, General
84

Veblen, Thorstein
205

Venezuela
119
,
128
,
139

Caracas
129

Catholicism in
120
,
120
n

under Chávez
128

property rights
119
,
124
,
128

revolution in
119–22

Verdun, battle of (1916)
183

Vermeer, Jan
xxiv

Vesalius, Andreas
65

Vespucci, Amerigo
96

Vico, Giambattista:
Scienza nuova
296

Vienna, siege of (1683)
52
,
53
,
55
,
57

Vietnam
167

see also
Indo-China

Vietnam War (1965–73)
245
,
246

violence/terrorism
246–7
,
254
n,
258
,
288–9
,
291

homicide rates
24
,
25
,
105

Voltaire (François Marie Arouet)
67
,
70–71
,
78
,
79

on China
46

Diatribe du Docteur Akakia …
80

Vordman, Adolphe
170

Voulet, Paul
166

wages
203
,
210–11
,
238

Wagner, Richard
162
,
162
n,
206
,
208

Waldseemüller, Martin:
Universalis cosmographia
96

Wales, England and
24
,
39

see also
Britain

Wallace, George
137

Wang Zhen:
Treatise on Agriculture
28

Wappers, Egide:
Episode of the Belgian Revolution
162
n

Warburg, Siegmund
94

warfare/weapons
4
,
23
,
24
,
57
,
82

armed forces
215–16
,
229
,
233
,
234
,
236
; colonial troops
164
,
181–9
;
see also
individual armies

atomic weapons
235–6

casualty figures
301–2

Clausewitz on
157–8

communications in
55
,
181–2

definition
157–8

financing of
161

gunpowder
28

imperialism as conquest
99–102

military technology
37
,
41
,
57
,
65
n; ballistics
83–5

military uniforms
215–16
,
229
,
233
,
234
,
237

naval
37
,
160

religious
9
,
12
,
38–9

Lewis Fry Richardson on
301–2
,
301
n

siege warfare
52
,
54–7

strategy/tactics
84
,
85
,
133
; Inca
100

see also
individual battles/conflicts

Washington, George
116
,
116
n,
117

water supplies
145
,
145
n

Waterloo, battle of (1815)
160

Watt, James
70
,
200
,
201
,
202
,
204
,
206
n

Waugh, Evelyn, on Catholicism
269–70

Weber, Max
259–60
,
270

on China
21
,
264

on the Jews
262

on Protestantism
259
,
260–64
,
276
,
283

in US
260–61

on Western ascendancy
11

Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel
94

Wenzel von Liechtenstein, Prince Joseph
84

the West

definition
14–16
; by Samuel Huntington
15
,
16

Islam and
39
,
50–57
,
63
,
85–90
,
255

loss of confidence by
17–18

Ottoman empire and
52
,
53
,
63
,
86–90

Roman Empire in
16–17

Western ascendancy

competition and
12
,
13
,
19–49

consumerism and
12
,
13
,
195
,
196–255

Jared Diamond on
11–12

health issues and
12
,
13
,
146–8
,
168–75
,
191

Samuel Johnson on
10

David Landes on
11

legal systems and
8
,
12
,
13
;
see also
property rights

reasons for
xv–xvi
,
xxvi
,
1–8
,
96–7
,
195

science/technology and
10–11
,
13
,
50–95

threats to
17–18
,
255
,
256–94
,
295–325
; economic crises
257
,
258
,
259
,
260–64
,
276
,
283

Max Weber on
11

work ethic and
12
,
13
,
259–94

see also individual countries

Whittington, Richard (Dick)
22
,
23

Wilde, Oscar
208–9

William II, Kaiser
178

William of Orange, as King of England
104–5
,
107

Willoughby, Hugh
36

Wilson, Paul
248

Wilson, President Woodrow
227

witch doctors
171
,
172

witches/witchcraft
63–4
,
114

Wittfogel, Karl, on Oriental despotism
42

Wolle, Stefan
244

women

in Japan
222

measurements, scientific study of
237

as missionaries
282

women workers
224

women’s education
94
,
244

women’s fashion/clothing
216
,
220
,
246

Islamic
253–5
,
253
n