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To understand the cultural and political differences that endanger our world, we need to appreciate fundamental national stories. In this unique book, leading writers and scholars from twenty-eight countries give thoughtful, engaging accounts of their own nations history.
The countries have been selected to represent every continent and every type of state: large and small; mature democracies and religious autocracies; states that have existed for centuries and those born recently, making up two-thirds of the worlds population.
Peter Furtado is the former editor of the internationally renowned magazine 'History Today'. Note: The ebook edition includes the complete text of the printed book with a reduced number of illustrations.
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INDEX
All page numbers refer to the 2012 print edition
Abbasid dynasty 84
Abd al-Rahman I 84
Abd al-Rahman III 84
Abdülhamid II, Sultan 160
Aberdeen, Lord 156
Achaemenid dynasty 41
Ahmadinejad, Mahmud 47
Ahmose I, King of Egypt 20
Akbar, Emperor 31, 34
Akihabara 280–1
Alberuni (Abu Raihan) 28, 32
Alexander I, Emperor of Russia 242, 244–45
Alexander the Great 10, 21, 30, 41, 50
Alfonsín, Raúl 252
Alfonso X the Wise, King of Spain 86
Alkalai, Yehuda 298
Almohads 87
Almoravids 87
Alsace-Lorraine 98, 100, 106
Amazon rainforest 163, 167–69
American Revolution 92, 211–21, 260
Amsterdam 181, 182–84
Anatolia 155, 159
Anglo-Boer War 34
Annan, Kofi 238
Anne, Queen of England 200
Aquinas, Thomas 265
Arabs: in Israel 295, 298; wars with Israel 22–23, 295, 298, 299, 301
Arafat, Yasser 300, 301
Aragon 85, 87–88
Argentina 249–55; coup of 1976 251–52, 254–55; the Disappeared 252–53, 255; junta of May 1810 249–51; Malvinas/Falklands War 252, 255; state terrorism 251–55; ‘Trial of the Juntas’ 252
Arianism 83
Aristotle 164
Aryan tribes 40
Aryanism, in Iran 44, 45
Ashoka, King 34
Asia Minor 54
Asquith, Herbert Henry 78
Asturias 85
Atatürk, Mustafa Kemal 159
Athens 10, 16, 52, 57; Parthenon 51, 53
Attenborough, Richard 29
Aum Shinrikyo cult 280
Auschwitz 139, 151, 296
Austen, Jane 208
Australia 223–31, 241; Aboriginal culture 224–26, 231; ancient history 225–26; economy 229–31; federal government 231; first colonies 223–24, 226–27, 229–30; immigration policy 227–29
Austria 146–49
Austro-Hungarian Empire 127, 149
Averroes 84
Ayodhya, Babri Mosque 27
Aztecs 171–74, 177
Bahia 164
Balfour Declaration (1917) 302
Balkans 53–54
Baltic states 190, 197
al-Banna, Sheikh Hassan 23
Barak, Ehud 300
Barcelona 85, 94
Barkan, Ömer Lütfi 160
Bartók, Béla 151
Basques 85, 94, 99
Batavian Revolution (1795) 186
Batavians 185
Beethoven, Ludwig van 288
Belgium 185, 186
Ben-Gurion, David 298
Ben-Zvi, Yitzhak 298
Benjamini, Eliahu 297
Benson, Arthur 199
Bergman, Ingmar 197
Berkeley, Bishop George 214
Berlin Wall 283
Berlusconi, Silvio 267, 268, 270–71
Berton, Pierre 257
Bevan, Aneurin 301
Biluim 298
Bismarck, Otto von 290, 291
Black Death 87, 144
Blackwell, John D. 263
Blok, Alexander 115
Bloody Sunday (Ireland, 1972) 81
Bo Yi 64–65
Bohemia 121–27
Bolivia 249
Bolshevik revolution 109, 116–17
Bolsheviks 297
Bonaparte, Louis 184–85
Book of Changes 65
Bořivoj, Duke 125
Boston Massacre (1770) 216
Boston Tea Party (1773) 215
Botany Bay 223
Boyne, Battle of the (1690) 74, 75
Brazil 163–69; economic and political corruption 165–66; environmental destruction 163, 167–69; slavery 163–65, 169; social inequality 164–65, 167
Briand, Aristide 105
Britain see Great Britain
Brittany 100
Brodsky, Josef 109
Buenos Aires 249, 251
Bulgaria 54
Burgundy 185
Bush, George W. 107
Byzantine Empire 10, 21, 53, 113
Cabral, Pedro 163
Calcutta, Black Hole of (1756) 33
Calderón de la Barca, Pedro 91
Calvinism 179, 185, 186–87
Canada 257–63; climate 257; confederation 261; First Nations 257–58, 261; French conquest 258–59; fur trade 258; immigrants 260; independence 262; liberalism 260–61; multiculturalism 262; peacekeeping role 262–63; relationship to United States 263;
Capa, Robert 151
Caribbean 93, 180
Carter, Jimmy 46, 169
las Casas, Bartolomé de 174
Castile 85, 87–88, 91
Catherine the Great, Empress of Russia 297
Catholic Church: Counter-Reformation 73, 91, 145; hostility towards in Britain 199, 200, 203; Hussite Revolution 122; Inquisition 166; in Ireland 73–74, 75–76, 80; in Italy 265–66, 267, 268, 269, 270; in Mexico 173, 174–75; in Poland 139–40; in South America 89
Celtis, Conrad 288–89
Celts 72, 83, 100
Cervantes de Salazar, Francisco 173
Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de 91, 156
Chaadaev, Pyotr 114
Charlemagne 84, 86, 97
Charles III, King of Spain 92, 174
Charles IV, King of Bohemia 122
Charles V, Emperor 89–91
Charles XII, King of Sweden 190, 196
Chile 250
China 59–69; Confucian classics 61–63, 66; Cultural Revolution 68; importance of ancestors 59–60; importance of history to 65; May Fourth Movement 66; nationalism and science 66–67; Olympic Games 10, 67–68, 69 Opium War 67; state historians 59–63; wars with Japan 276; Western influences 66–67
Chirac, Jacques 106–7
Christianity: conversion of Mexico 173, 174–75...
Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- About the Editor
- Other titles of Interest
- Contents
- Introduction: The histories of nations and the history of the world
- Egypt: Pharaohs, kings and presidents
- India: The civilization with no home-grown history
- Iran: A long history and short-term society
- Greece: A land caught between ancient glories and the modern world
- China: History writing: linking the past and the future
- Ireland: In the shadow of the fond abuser
- Spain: Beyond the Black Legend
- France: The history of the hexagon
- Russia: Fractures in the fabric of culture
- The Czech Republic: National history and the search for identity
- Poland: Tragedy and heroism in the face of powerful neighbours
- Hungary: The thousand-year realm
- Turkey: The land with a lost empire
- Brazil: The legacy of slavery and environmental suicide
- Mexico: The land of the eagle, the cactus and the snake
- The Netherlands: Facing the challenges of water
- Sweden: From Viking community to welfare state
- Great Britain: The confected nation state
- The United States: The land that chose to be without history
- Australia: A European nation in an ancient land
- Ghana: From colony to continental leader
- Finland: Carving an identity from struggle
- Argentina: Between two centenaries
- Canada: The loose-jointed polity
- Italy: Catholicism, power, democracy and the failure of the past
- Japan: From isolation to transgression
- Germany: The many mutations of a belated nation
- Israel: The Zionist experiment
- Further Reading
- Contributor Biographies
- Editor’s Acknowledgments
- Index
- Copyright