Index of Places, Names, and Events

Abbasid Caliphate, 324 Abu Taleb Hosayni, 66, 68 Accra, 407

Achaemenian/Achaemenid Empire, 11, 55, 62, 96-97, 105, 192, 466

Achebe, 357-361, 368

Adams, J. N., 356 Aegean, 18, 54-55, 203 Aelius Aristides, 272 Aeschylus, 11

Afghanistan, 5, 11, 54, 321, 426, 462, 465,

498, 511

Africa, xx, 24, 41, 45, 47, 54-55, 69-70, 72-74,

92, 98, 105-106, 112, 117, 145, 169-171, 173, 175, 184, 188, 192, 200-202, 267, 269, 277-278, 280, 283, 291, 306, 313­314, 320, 328, 332, 335, 338, 357, 362, 387-388, 390-394, 397-399, 402-403, 405-408, 428-430, 442, 445, 465-467, 473, 476-477, 479, 505, 514-515, 524, 530, 532

Ahriman, 328

Ahura Mazda, 322, 328 Ahutya, 128

Ajmir, 332 Akbar, 204-205, 332, 356, 500 Akerman, Jim, 289

Akhenaten/Akhenaton, 466, 519 Akkad, Akkadian Empire, 95, 125-126,

168, 170

Al Qaeda, 2

Al Sadr, Muqtada, 2-3 Alexander the Great, 55-56, 59, 62, 165, 172, 192, 207, 467, 500-503

Alexandria, 238, 241, 244-245 Algaze, Guillermo, 125 Algeria, 279, 331, 336, 392, 397, 399, 408, 514-516,534

Algerian War, 34-35, 514-515 Algiers, 331

Ali al-Rida, 331, 338 Allahabad, 499 Allawi, Ayad, 2-4 Alleg, Henri, 515 Allen, Roger, 347

Almohad, 92, 339-340 Almoravid, 92 Altaf Husain Hali, 354 Amazon, 305, 457

America, 15, 23, 26, 42, 64, 69, 72-73, 78,

92, 94, 98, 108, 112, 139, 160, 169-170, 173-176, 184, 187, 194, 202, 214-215, 230, 267, 275, 279, 306, 313, 362, 366, 397, 401, 417, 421, 432, 443, 445-446, 457, 472, 474, 476, 480, 482-483, 513, 532-533

American Revolution, 215 American War of Independence, 73 Amin, Samir, 112

Amin, Shahid, 32, 417 Amritsar massacre, 14 An Lushan, 167 Anand, Mulk Raj, 366 Ananos the son of Ananos, 7-8 Anatolia, 54, 56, 332, 398, 526 Anderson, Benedict, 344, 364, 376, 528 Anderson, Eugene, 50

Andes, 64, 106, 126, 192, 443-444, 457, 472 Angevin Empire, 160

Angkor, 128 Angola, 394 Anna Komnene, 246

Antioch, 251 Antony, Marc, 241, 401 Arabia, 298, 519

Arabian Peninsula, 96, 280, 338

Arabic, 59, 61, 266, 298, 323-324, 335, 347-348, 356, 364

Arabs, 59, 193, 320, 331, 334, 356, 395, 400,

470, 472, 506, 525 Aragon, 334, 366-367 Archduke Ferdinand, 537 Ardashir I, 323-325, 328, 340 Arendt, Hannah, 405 Argentina, 215 Aristotle, 59, 323 Armenia, 322 Aron, Raymond, 15-16, 23, 26, 79, 534, 538 Arrighi, Giovanni, 140 Arthasästra, 127

Ashoka/Asoka, 13, 58, 328, 330, 468, 500

Asia Minor, 95, 97, 332, 502

Asia, xx, xxiii, 32-33, 41, 54-55, 61, 64, 68-70,

74, 82, 92-93, 95-97, 101, 103-106, 108, 126-129, 143, 167, 169-170, 172-173, 175, 197, 200, 235, 267, 294, 308, 320­322, 332-334, 347, 354, 363, 365, 367, 376, 381, 387-388, 394-395, 400, 405, 417, 419, 445, 466-470, 472, 475, 486, 502, 505, 507, 509, 533

Assur, 129, 180, 208

Assyria, 93, 162, 172, 194, 257

Assyrian Empire, 53, 101, 105, 172, 180, 208 Aswan, 230-231, 257, 482

Athens, 11, 18, 54, 204

Augustus, 39, 56, 238-244, 258, 345 Aurangzeb, 8

Auschwitz, 405

Aussaresses, Paul, 515

Australasia, 171, 184, 214, 461, 479, 484 Austria, 28, 66, 186

Ayodhya, 518

Ayyub, 332 Azcapotzalco, 444 Azores, 444

Aztec Empire, 444, 472

Babylon, 53, 56, 171, 326

Badian, Ernst, 502

Baghdad, 2, 62, 192, 194, 295, 331

Bahrain, 129

Baldwin, J.

Bali, 432

Balkan, 532 Bang, Peter Fibiger, 228, 291, 323, 357,

486, 524

Bangladesh, 144 Barbados, 476-477

Barghouti, Mourid, 364 Barkey, Karen, 289-291 Basin of Mexico, 444, 454

Bassett, 'Thomas, 306

Bay of Algiers, 331

Bay of Bengal, 395 Bayly, C.

344, 433

Beattie, James, 50

Beijing/Peking, 229, 289, 429, 504

Belfast, 518

Belgian Congo, 72

Bellamy, John, 440 Bengal, 15, 174, 279, 309, 353, 395, 481, 504 Bengkulu, 279

Bennison, Amira, 39

Berlin, 22, 41, 70, 313-314, 357, 395, 398, 536

Berlin Conference, 313-314, 357, 398 Bhabha, Homi, 40

Bibighar, 424-425

Bihar, 309

Bismarck, Otto von, 41, 172, 536

Blake, Stephen, 228-229

Blaut, James, 293

Boeck, Elena, 249

Boer War, 390, 392

Bokassa, Jean-Bedel, 523

Bolivia, 145, 472, 475

Bombay/Mumbai, 395, 504, 509, 516-517 Borges, Jorge Luis, 361

Bosporus, 11, 61, 249

Boswell, T., 140

Botero, Giovanni, 51, 53

Bourbon, 44

Bouvines, 160

Boxer Rebellion, 405, 428

Boyd, Rob, 132 Bradford, 484

Brazil, 69, 145, 188, 201, 360-361, 378,

445, 456

Breasted, James Henry, 238

Bristol, 390

Britain, 9, 18, 23, 25, 44, 73-74, 94, 100, 102,

139, 141, 160-161, 163, 165, 171, 174-175,

185, 191, 194, 201-202, 204, 214-215, 275, 294, 297, 304-305, 308-310, 377, 390-391, 393, 395, 399, 404, 406-408, 419, 446-448, 450, 456, 477, 479-482, 485, 505-507, 509, 511, 513, 523, 526, 529, 532-533, 538

Great Britain, 23, 44, 74, 390, 395, 406, 448, 523, 529, 532-533

British East India Company, 279, 445

British Empire, xix, xxi, 9, 21, 25, 43, 47, 97-98, 101-102, 105, 227, 275, 277, 288, 358, 362, 390, 395, 408, 446, 449, 480, 512, 531-532 British Guiana, 45

British Isles, 399, 407

British West Indies, 215, 282, 393

Brittany, 168

Bronze Age, 24, 34, 50, 54-55, 78, 109, 115,

125, 128, 133, 147

Brown, N. J., 280

Brown, Peter, 528

Brussels Conference, 398

Buck, Pearl, 361

Buller, Walter, 484

Burawoy, Michael, 146

Burbank, Jane, 9, 14, 39, 267, 275, 333, 342,

449, 527

Burma, 128, 278

Bush, George W, 1

Byatt, A. S., 513

Byblos, 129

Byzantine Empire, 104, 182, 195, 318, 337, 443

Byzantium, 194, 196, 223, 381, 525, 528-529

Caesar, Gaius Julius, 8-9, 168, 171, 238, 467, 500, 528

Cairo, 235, 274, 326, 328, 340, 395

Calavita, K., 281

Calcutta, 504-505, 516.

California, 118, 120-124, 147

Caligula, 244, 258

Caliphate, 15, 72, 96-97, 99, 101, 191-192, 320-321, 324, 326-328, 338, 347, 444, 514

Cambodia, 127-128, 144

Cambyses, 53

Campus Martius, 239-241, 244

Canada, 98, 399, 403, 479, 514

Canary Islands, 444

Canepa, Matthew, 249

Cannadine, David, 9, 227, 229, 261

Canny, Nicolas, xxi, 531

Cappadocia, 129

Caribbean, 69, 173, 187, 190, 201-202, 214­215, 377-378, 390-391, 395, 444-446, 454-455,476-477,514

Carlyle, 'Thomas, 396

Carneiro, Robert, 462

Carolingian Empire, 205

Carthage, 14, 129

Carthaginian Empire, 463

Casale, Giancarlo, 298

Castile, 334

Caucasia, 320

Caucasus, 171, 347

Cawnpore, 423-424

Central America, 64, 214, 267

Central Asia, 41, 54, 61, 68, 92, 103, 167, 170, 334, 347, 387, 466, 468-470, 472

Central Europe, 61, 467

Cesaire, Aime, 405

Ceylon, 277-278, 482

Chagatai, 92

Chakrabarty, Dipesh, 38, 419, 428

Chandragupta Maurya, 127

Chanka, 443

Charlemagne, 106, 444

Charles V, 66, 160, 300

Charles VIII, 173

Chase-Dunn, Christopher, 25, 73, 113

Chatterjee, Partha, 396 Chaudhuri, K. N., xxiii Chennai. See Madras/Chennai Chesapeake Bay, 124 Chile, 64, 215, 345, 443 China Sea, 190

China, xix-xx, 13, 25, 28-30, 32-34, 44, 51, 53, 56-57, 61-62, 64, 76, 78, 91, 97, 99, 101­102, 104, 106, 127, 130, 133, 135, 139, 143-144, 161-164, 167, 169-173, 176, 190, 193-195, 213, 267, 276, 288, 294, 298, 303, 313, 322, 339, 342, 345-346, 349-351, 361, 363, 367, 381-382, 386, 389, 394, 401, 404-405, 428, 430, 433, 440-442, 445-446, 449, 451, 460, 463, 466, 468-470, 473, 475-476, 478-481, 486, 504-505, 525, 527-529, 533, 538 Chinggis Khan, xx, 62-63, 276, 525.

Chola Empire, 105

Chu, 210

Churchill, Winston, 1, 43

Cicero, 12 Cisleithenia, 535 Clark, Brett, 440 Cleopatra, 238, 241, 401 Clinton, Bill, 84 Coetzee, J. M., 514 Cohen, Paul A., 430 Cohn, Bernard, 293 Colbert, Jean-Baptiste, 308-309 Cold War, xix, 4, 29, 48, 75-76, 533 Collins, Thomas, 507

Columbus, Christopher, 64, 173, 298, 444, 473-474

Comanche, 72, 461, 483

Confucius, 345-346

Congo, 72

Conrad, Joseph, xxii, 406

Constantine I (the Great), 244 Constantinople, 66, 193, 198, 204, 223-226, 230, 238, 244-245, 247-251, 258-259, 262, 296, 330-332, 443

Constantius II, 244 Cook, James, 37

Cooper, Frederic, 9, 14, 39, 333, 449 Copenhagen, 524, 536

Coptic, 266

Corbin, Alain, 425

Cordoba, 329-330, 332

Corsica, 442

Cortes, Hernan, 300 Count Taaffe, 537

Crone, Patricia, 31, 338, 383

Crosby, Alfred, 437-440, 454, 461, 465, 484

Cuba, 391

Cushman, Gregory T., 485

Cuzco, 256, 443

Cyprus, 254

Dahlmann, F.

Dai Viet, 128

Damascus, 192, 194, 329

Dante, 475

Danube, 61

Darius I, 53, 502-503

Darnton, Robert, 428

Darwin, John, 523

d’Aubigne, Agrippa, 345

Davies, Ben, 508

de Alcenar, Jose, 360

de Ercilla, Alonso, 345

de Esquivel, Pedro, 301

de Gobineau, 396

de la Vega, Garcilasco, 401, 472

de las Casas, Bartolome, 384

de Velasco, Juan Lopez, 301

Deccan, 8

Defoe, Daniel, 165

Delhi, 93, 103, 105, 228-229, 261-262, 289,

426-427, 507, 509

Delian League, 18

Delisle, Joseph Nicolas, 303

Delphi, 223

Denmark, xxvii, 529, 534, 536

Desani, G. V., 360

Diamond, Jared, 439-440, 457

Dias, Bartolomeu, 173

Dilmun, 129

Dinka, 123, 147

Diocletian, 529-530, 533

Disraeli, Benjamin, 41

Diviciacus, 8

Dome of the Rock, 329

Domitian, 244

Dong Zhongshu, 346

Doyle, Laura, 228

Doyle, Michael, 19, 48

Droysen, J. C., 536

Dumnorix, 8

Durkheim, Emile, 115

Dutch East India Company, 445

Dutch Republic, 165

Eannatum, 170

Early Modern Period, xx, 12, 58, 181, 185, 289,

293, 298, 310-311, 353

East Africa, 72, 188, 269, 428-430

East Asia, 92, 96, 101, 103-104, 106, 126-127, 470,486

East India Company, 185, 202, 279, 281, 309, 426, 445, 504, 508

Eastern Han, 56, 106

Eastern Mediterranean, 68, 129, 244, 465 Ecuador, 64, 443

Edo, 229

Egypt, 51, 53-56, 66, 92, 94-95, 105, 125-126, 171, 192-193, 203, 211, 231-235, 238, 243, 257, 259, 266, 274, 281, 298, 300, 331, 357, 442, 462, 464-467, 482, 519, 526

Egypt, Ancient, 231-233, 238, 519

Eisenstadt, Shmuel, 30-31

Engels, Friedrich, 528

England, 9, 164-165, 185, 187, 201-202, 214­215, 261, 277-279, 305, 312, 362, 368, 390, 399, 405, 446-448, 512, 531

English East India Company, 185

Ethiopia, 266-270

Euphrates, 125, 169, 237

Eurasia, 32, 41, 51, 55-59, 61-62, 64, 68-70, 74, 77-78, 117, 171, 184, 193, 228, 267, 347, 381, 389, 401, 471, 478, 527

Europe, xix-xx, xxiii, xxvii, 11-12, 18, 25, 28, 30-33, 36, 39, 44, 46, 48, 51, 61-62, 66, 68-70, 73, 78, 92-94, 99, 103-104, 108, 114, 120, 128, 133, 135, 139, 141, 143, 147, 160, 163, 165, 169-170, 173-175, 185, 194, 200-201, 203, 215, 276, 280, 282, 289, 293-295, 298, 303, 311-313, 322, 335, 340, 345, 347, 353-354, 366, 376-377, 383-384, 390-391, 393, 398, 405, 409, 418, 425, 438-440, 442, 445, 448, 450, 466-467, 469, 472, 476-477, 480, 483-484, 486, 524, 528-530, 534

Falkland Islands, 512, 514

Fanon, Frantz, 34-36

Faroe Islands, 524

Fatehpur, 328

Fatimid Caliphate, 328, 338

Ferdowsi, 348 Ferhat, H., 326 Fertile Crescent, 91 Fichte, Johann Gottlieb, 536 Finkielkraut, Alain, 12 Firuz Tughluq, 328 Fitzpatrick, Peter, 272, 283 Flaubert, Gustave, 36 Florence, 14, 297 Foster, John Bellamy, 440-441 Foucault, Michel, 37-38, 305

France, 26, 44, 73-74, 94, 100, 103-104, 139, 173-175, 185-187, 194, 202, 259-260, 294, 297, 303, 307-309, 356, 377, 391, 393, 395, 404, 406-408, 513-516, 530, 534, 536

Frank, Andre Gunder, 112, 439

French Revolution, 139, 290, 308

Freud, Sigmund, 497-499, 501-502, 510-511, 518-520

Friedland, 280

Fuchs, Barbara, 228

Fukuyama, Francis, xix, 4

Galanter, Marc, 281

Gallagher, John, 25, 47

Gandhi, 9, 34-35, 38, 354, 361-362 Ganges/Ganga, 15, 228, 466, 481, 504-505 Garibaldi, Giuseppe, xxii

Gaugamela, 502

Gaul, 8, 191, 204, 357

Geertz, Clifford, 176

Gellner, Ernest, 30-31, 326

Geneva, 270

Genoa, 183, 195-196

Genyue, 470

George V, 261

Georgia, 409

German Confederation, 524, 536

German Peasant Wars, 419

Germany, 42, 44-45, 74, 102-104, 142, 175, 366, 402, 404-406, 529, 536

Ghana, 400, 526, 532

Gibbon, Edward, 77, 530

Gibraltar, 514

Gilgamesh, 126

Gilpin, Robert, 25

Gilroy, Paul, 511-513

Go, Julian, 44

Godelier, Maurice, 450

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, 500-501

Gojjam, 267

Gold Coast, 532

Golden Horde, 92, 194, 381, 384

Goldstone, Jack, 123

Goody, Jack, 54-55

Gough, Katherine, 422

Grabar, Andre, 224

Graeber, David, 455

Gramsci, Antonio, 35, 424

Granada, 444

Grand Canal, 469

Great Britain.

Greater Syria, 211

Greece, 39, 79, 183, 256, 344, 353-354, 367,

442, 453, 466-467

Greeks, 129, 132, 172, 207, 344, 350, 356, 360 Greenland, 66, 478, 524

Greenwich, 308

Grenada, 383

Gruzinsky, Serge, 37

Guangxi Province, 304

Guha, Ranajit, 417-421, 423-428, 431-432

Gujarati, 361, 517

GulfWar, 169, 513

Gulhane Edict, 335

Guptas, 267

Gushnasp, 324

Guti, 126

Habsburg, 66, 104, 141, 160, 165, 188, 335,

376, 444-445, 451, 524, 531, 535 Hadrian, 10, 81, 169, 244, 532 Hagia Sophia, 230, 246, 330 Haida, 121

Haile Selassie I, 266-268, 270-271

Haitian Revolution, 139

Hakka, 339

Haldane, Richard Burton, 277-278, 282

Haldon, John, 32-33, 115

Hall, Bruce, 400

Hall, John, 10, 31-32, 45

Hall, T. D., 113

Halliday, P., 269, 279

Hamburg, 395, 536 Hammurabi, 328

Han dynasty, 13, 34, 56, 59, 61, 92, 96, 99,

101-103, 106, 127, 164, 172, 186, 210, 345-346, 349, 351, 386, 441-442, 449, 451,468-469

Hangzhou, 79

Hardt, Michael, 20

Harley, J. B., 291-293, 305

Harper, Michael, 168

Hatshepsut, 234-237, 256-257

Hawaii, 37, 282

Heaney, Seamus, 514

Heath, Edward, 512

Hebrew, 519-520

Hejaz/Hijaz, 194, 331

Helena, the mother of Constantine I, 279, 330-331

Heliopolis, 236, 238-239, 242 Hemacandra, 359

Henry VIII, 523

Heraclius, 331

Herbert, Christopher, 507

Herero, 72, 405, 429

Herodotus, 11, 54

Heslin, Peter, 241

Hilferding, Rudolf, 22, 26

Hillenbrand, R., 329

Hilsdale, Cecily, 39

Himalayas, 61

Hinds, Martin, 383

Hindu Kush, 45, 56

Hindushah Nakhjavani, 348

Hindustan, 34

Hintze, Otto, 44

Hitler, Adolf, 106, 159, 405

Hobbes, 'Thomas, 12, 17

Hobsbawm, Eric, 418, 433

Hobson, J. A., 21, 393

Hobson, John, 524, 532

Hokkaido, 400

Holland, 185, 486, 529, 534

Holstein, 524, 535-536

Holy Roman Empire, 62, 93, 104, 320, 383, 451, 524

Homer, 272, 344, 354

Hong Kong, 144, 278, 479, 484, 514

Hopkins, Keith, 163

Horace, 39

Horden, Peregrine, 473

Hostetler, Laura, 37, 50

Howe, Stephen, 16, 77

Howland, D.

Huancavelica, 475

Huang Zunxian, 350

Hudson's Bay, 445

Hui, Victoria Tin-bor, 46

Huizong, 470

Humayun, 335

Humfress, Caroline, 36

Hungary, 66, 533, 537

Huns, 92, 194

Hurrians, 171

Hyksos, 171

Hyphasis, 56

Iberia, 129, 329, 332, 334, 339, 383, 442

Iberian peninsula, 97, 301, 332, 444

Ibn Khaldun, 13, 40, 325-327, 329, 340, 526, 530

Ibn Tumart, 339-340

Ibrahim Pasha, 251, 254, 298

Iceland, 66, 524

Ikenberry, John, 42-44

Ilkhanate, 93, 194

Ilkhanid, 105

Inca/Inka, 64, 92, 108, 123, 172-173, 193, 256, 353, 401, 441, 443, 445, 449-450, 452, 454, 472-473

India, 8-9, 13, 27, 34-35, 41, 56, 61, 66, 68, 72-73, 76, 78, 105, 108, 133, 144, 171­172, 174, 184-185, 197, 202, 204, 215, 227-229,261-262,274-275,278-282, 297-298, 308-310, 313, 320-322, 328, 330, 334, 336, 353-354, 356, 358-362, 365-367, 389-390, 395, 399, 417, 419­422, 424, 426-427, 431-433, 440, 445­446, 463, 466-468, 472, 478, 481-482, 484, 499-500, 503-509, 511-514, 516, 524, 526, 528-529, 537

Indian Mutiny, 507-509

Indian Ocean, 64, 68-69, 173, 188, 190, 298, 300, 395, 445

Indonesia, 128, 445, 450, 528 Indus, 51, 54, 95, 129, 183, 347, 466 Indus Valley, 95, 183

Inghilahriz, Louisette, 515

Iran, 53, 56, 95, 194-195, 204, 267, 273, 281, 298, 328-329, 331, 340, 347-348, 466, 513 Iranian Plateau, 347

Iraq, 1-5, 7, 10, 170, 194, 338, 513

Iron Age, 34, 50, 52-53, 55

Isfahan, 229

Islamic State, 329 Israel, 175, 364, 520

Istanbul, 223-225, 229, 237-238, 247-248, 258-259, 262, 282, 297, 299, 330, 332, 395, 504

Italian peninsula, 442, 503

Italy, 139, 162, 173, 357, 366, 406, 442, 513

Jahangir, 328-329, 500

Jaipur, 9, 289 Jamaica, 445, 477

James, Henry, 238 Jamestown, 304, 445 Japura, 305

Jefferson, Thomas, 403

Jerusalem, 6-8, 10, 330-331, 380, 518 Jesus, 6, 72, 139, 322, 528

Jewish Rebellion, 6

Jimma, 267

Jin, 92, 103, 106, 469-470

John of Gischala, 7

Jones, Ryan Tucker, 484, 486

Jones, Sir William, 353 Josephus, 6-8, 10

Judea, 6

Jung, Carl, 501

Jupiter, xix, 330, 497

Jurchen, 92, 103 Justinian, 272, 353

Kafa, 267

Kafiristan, 500

Kandahar, 509

Kangxi Emperor, 303

Karachi, 395

Karnak, 223, 230, 232-238, 244, 256

Kashgar, 347

Kassites, 171

Kautsky, John H., 30-31

Kaye, John, 508

Kazakhstan, 171

Kelly, Raymond, 123

Kennedy, Paul, 44, 532

Kenya, 395, 397, 399, 408

Kenyatta, Jomo, 407

Kew, 482

Khautilya, 127

Khazars, 194

Khiva, 347

Khorezm, 92

Khubilai. See Kublai Khan/Khubilai

Khusru I, 211, 214

Kidir, 337

Kiel, 536

Kiev, 92, 108, 249-250, 384

Kipling, Rudyard, 41, 161, 508-511

Kirch, Patrick, 124

Kirilov, Ivan, 303

Kirkpatrick, James Achilles, 509

Kish, 125

Kissinger, Henry, 43

Kivelson, Valerie, 302

Kolkata, 516. See also Calcutta

Kollman, Nancy, 275

Kolodziejczyk, Darius, 228

Korea, 144, 176, 288, 400-401

Korean Peninsula, 514

Kosovo, 518

Kostantiniyye, 250

Krepinevich, Andrew, 169

Kublai Khan/Khubilai, 97, 381-382

Kumar, Krishan, 20

Kush, 45, 56

Kushan Empire, 105

Kwatkiutl, 121

La Graufesenque, 356

Lagash, 170

Lagos, 407

Lall, Chimmun, 507

Landivar, Rafael, 355

Lane, Christopher, 510

Lane, Frederic, 73

Latin America, 112, 160, 175, 366, 421,

532-533

Latour, Bruno, 291

Lavigerie, Bishop, 331

Lawson, Henry, 365

Lebanon, 464

Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm, 17-18

Lenin, Vladimir, 20-23, 25, 139, 393, 524

Lenski, Gerhard, 123, 130-131

Levant, 467

Li Si, 58

Li Zhizao, 303

Liang, 92, 106, 339

Liao, 92, 469-470

Libya, 54

Lieberman, Victor, 128

Lieven, Dominic, 9, 529, 533, 537

Lisbon, 297

Lithuania, 93, 108

Liu, Lydia, 351

London, 2, 3, 47, 214-215, 238, 278, 289, 309, 366-367, 392, 395, 397, 504, 507, 513, 531-532

Lorcin, Patricia, 515

Lord Bryce, 40

Lord Burnham, 508

Lord Curzon, 376

Lord Halsbury, 16

Lord Lugard, 8, 530

Lord Roberts, 228, 507, 509

Lorenzen, P. H., 536

Louis XIV, 297, 308

Lower Egypt, 125, 234

Lucan, 345

Lucknow, 508-509

Lundestad, Geier, 43

Luoyang, 471

Luttwak, Edward, 47, 168

Luxemburg, Rosa, 22-23

Luxor, 232-234, 237, 259

Lydia, 351

Maale, 267

Macedon, 55, 56, 172, 467, 500

Machiavelli, Niccolo, 13-15, 159, 173

Mackinder, Harold, 41-42

Madeira, 173, 444

Madras/Chennai, 504, 516

Madrid, 504

Magellan, 299

Maghreb, 97, 516

Magyars, 535-536

Mahabharata, 171

Mahan, Alfred Thayer, 174

Maharashtra, 516

Mair, V H., 348-349

Majeed, Javed, 39, 73

Maji Maji Rebellion, 416, 428-429, 431

Makdisi, U., 336

Malacca, xx, 61

Malaya, 128, 408

Mali, 62, 92, 394, 400

Malthus, 'Thomas, 446-448 Mamluks, 211, 298, 340

Manchester, 480

Manchu, 68, 97-100, 339, 351, 386 Manchuria, 303, 400

Mani, 322

Manichaeism, 322

Manila, 475

Mann, Michael, xxvi, 31, 35, 48-49

Manto, Sadat Hasan, 365

Mao Zedong, 32, 367

Maori, 124, 485

Marco Polo, 300

Marduk, 326

Markham, Clement, 481

Marquesas Islands, 124

Marx, Karl, 446-447, 455

Mashhad, 331 Massachusetts, 312

Mau Mau, 399, 417, 507

Mauritania, 129

Maurya Empire, 172, 467

Mawlay Isma‘il, 329

Maya, 486

Mazdak, 337

Mazzini, Giuseppe, xxii, 362

McCloud River, 121

McNeill, John, 477

McNeill, William, xxii

Mecca, 66, 192, 194, 251, 331, 395

Medes, 53, 208

Media, 3, 93, 142, 197

Medina, 66 Mediterranean, 6, 31, 47, 56-57, 59, 61-62,

68, 79, 116, 129, 168-169, 198, 230,

232, 238, 244, 257, 267, 289, 294-298, 333, 336, 353, 382, 394, 442-444, 453, 465-467, 473

Mehta, Suketu, 517

Melville, Elinor, 474

Menelik II, 271

Mesoamerica, 126, 171, 445 Mesopotamia, 32, 51, 53-56, 66, 95, 125-126, 129, 170, 328, 462-465, 467, 486, 526, 532

Mexico, 37, 106, 139, 145, 300, 355, 444, 449,

454, 472, 474, 486

Middle Ages, 305, 353

Ming, 64, 68, 92, 103, 106, 173, 229, 294, 303, 347, 386, 394, 531-532

Mithra, 322

Mitscherlich, Alexander, 511

Modelski, George, 127

Moghador, 129

Mommsen, Theodor, 48, 536

Mongol Empire, 94, 97, 104-105, 194, 381

Mongolia, 468

Mongols, xx, 98, 193, 195, 381-382, 384, 386, 463, 470-471, 525

Monson, Jamie, 430

Montesquieu, 25

Morant Bay Rebellion, 507

Moretti, Franco, 343

Morgenthau, Hans, 42-43

Morocco, 320-321,328-329,339-340

Moscow, 139, 176, 384, 395, 405

Motyl, Alexander, 19, 30

Mozambique, 394

Mughal Empire, 105, 197, 445

Muhammad, 3, 322, 338, 354

Muhammad Iqbal, 354

Mukherjee, Rudrangshu, 423-426

Mullen, A., 356

Mumbai. See Bombay/Mumbai

Münkler, Herfried, 18, 45

Murad III, 251

Muscovy, 194, 472

Mussolini, Benito, 270

Nahuatl, 302, 355, 358

Naipaul, V. S., xix, 514

Nairobi, 407

Najaf, 1-6

Namaqua, 429

Nana Sahib, 424

Nanking, 339

Nantes, 390

Naples, 500

Napoleonic Wars, 141

Narayan, R. K., 357

Nauru, 485

Nazi Germany, 42, 102, 405-406

Near East, 11, 15, 50-51, 53, 56, 61, 79, 267-268, 333, 337, 462-463, 465-466, 468, 472

Necipoglu, Gülru, 226, 229, 254

Nefedov, Sergey, 123-124

Negri, Antonio, 20

Nehru, Jawaharlal, 354

Nero, 6

New England, 187, 202, 214, 312

New Kingdom Egypt, 171, 232

New Rome, 230, 244-245

New Spain, 215, 281, 301, 312-313,

355, 474

New World, 11, 32, 42, 64-68, 74, 169,

200, 275, 298, 301, 304, 309, 335,

349-350, 439, 441, 444-446, 454, 461, 472-479,484

New York, 238, 270

Newfoundland, 66

Ngügi wa Thiongo, 357

Nigeria, 277, 388

Nika Riots, 246

Nile, 54, 234-235, 244, 257, 465

Nineveh, 208, 257

Nkrumah, Kwame, 23, 407, 532

North Africa, 54, 105-106, 192, 320, 328, 332, 335, 338, 466, 476, 515, 530

North America, 15, 69, 72, 139, 160, 169-170, 174-175, 184, 187, 202, 214, 306, 362, 397, 432, 445-446, 476, 480, 483

North Atlantic, 66

North China, 468, 473

North India, 13, 56, 61, 66, 197

Northeast Africa, 465

Northern California, 118, 120-123

Northern Nigeria, 388

Northern Wei, 103, 106

Northern Zhou, 92, 103, 106

Norway, 524, 535

Nuer, 123

Obama, Barack, 499

Ocean Island, 485

Oceania, 171

Octavian, 241. See also Augustus

Okinawa, 400

Old Delhi, 228

Old Kingdom, 95

Oldenburg dynasty, 524

Oliensis, Ellen, 498

Oman, 46, 108, 333, 337, 383, 502

Opium Wars, 26

Oppenheimer, Franz, 531

Ortelius, Abraham, 297

Ortner, Sherry, 426

Ostia, 258

Ottoman Empire, 45, 105, 182, 209, 230, 251, 268, 276, 281, 294, 298, 300, 321, 325, 333, 335-336, 340, 398, 530

Ouyang Xun, 346

Oz, Amos, 364

Pacific, 108, 121-122, 124, 147, 176, 291, 405, 443, 480, 485, 505

Pacific Northwest, 121-122, 147

Padel, Felix, 422

Padron, Ricardo, 300

Paiute, 432

Pakistan, 129, 467, 500

Palestine, 7, 364

Paris, 232, 259-260, 289, 307-308, 366-367,

377, 392, 395, 513, 534

Parsi, 205

Partha, 396

Parthia, 93

Parthian Empire, 105

Peking. See Beijing/Peking

Peloponnesian War, 204

Pera, 251

Persepolis, 207, 328

Persian Empire, xxiv, 56, 159, 172, 192, 207

Persian Gulf, 66

Peru, 64, 445, 449-450, 454, 473

Peter the Great, 186, 302, 401

Peter, Rolf, 447

Petersburg, 289

Philip II, 300-301, 531

Philippines, 128, 428

Piri Reis, 298-299

Pisa, 14, 195

Plassey, Battle of, 308

Plato, 354, 362

Pliny the Elder, 238

Poland, 406, 532

Pollock, Sheldon, 355, 518

Polybius, xxvii

Pomeranz, Kenneth, 390, 439, 447, 481

Pompeii, 500-502

Pontius Pilate, 6

Porter, Philip, 306

Porterfield, Todd, 260

Portland, 139

Portugal, 68, 93, 100, 188, 294, 297-300,

408, 445

Portuguese Empire, 463

Potosi, 475

Pourshariati, P., 320

Powell, J. Enoch, 512

Prochaska, David, 515-516

Prussia, 141

Psametik II, 239

Psyche, 365

Ptolemy VIII, 232

Pufendorf, Samuel, 17

Punjab, 56, 482

Punt, 235, 257

Purcell, Nicholas, 473

Pushkin, Alexander, 401

Qianlong, 303

Qin Shi Huang, 349

Qin dynasty, 13, 33, 46, 56, 58, 92, 96, 98, 103,

106, 209-210, 349, 441, 468

Qing dynasty, xx, 68, 70, 72, 76, 92, 97-99, 103, 106, 213, 228, 303, 311-312, 347, 351, 386, 429, 433, 505, 532

Qinghai, 313

Quebec, 277 Quint, D., 345, 352

Rajasthan, 9

Ramses II, 232-233, 238, 259 Red Fort, 229

Reed, John, 139

Remezov, Semon, 302

Renaissance, 13, 289, 292

Rennell, James, 309

Rhine, 61

Rhodesia, 397, 408 Rodger, Nicholas, 155

Roger II, 295 Roman Empire, xxii, 33, 47, 61-62, 77, 93, 104-105, 108, 127, 163-164, 167-168, 183, 191-193, 197-198, 320, 322, 333, 337, 353-354, 356, 379-380, 383, 389, 442-444, 451, 455, 466, 469, 500, 505­506, 524, 531

Romanov Empire, 159, 302

Rome, xx-xxi, xxv, 6, 8, 31, 61, 92, 98-99, 106,

108, 127, 162-163, 191-192, 198-199, 203-204, 230, 238-239, 241-245, 257, 259, 262, 269, 272, 275-276, 288, 321, 340, 342, 344, 353-354, 357, 367, 379­380, 382, 389, 441-442, 449, 451, 453­454, 465-467, 497-499, 502, 504, 524, 526, 528-531

Rose, Jacqueline, 519 Rosenthal, Franz, 326

Ross, Corey, 480 Ross, Ronald, 484

Roy, Arundhati, 514

Roy, M. N., 366

Runciman, Garry, 16, 180

Rushdie, Salman, 360-361, 512-514 Ruskin, John, 362, 528

Russia, xix, 28, 41, 44, 46, 66, 78, 93, 97­

100, 102, 104, 106, 108, 139, 141, 143,

186, 267-268, 275, 279, 294, 297, 303, 384-385, 400-401, 404-405, 409, 532, 536-537

Ruzbih, 348

Rwanda, 5, 376

Sacramento Valley, 120 Saddam Hussein, 1-2 Sahara, 62, 171, 394, 400

Sahel, 106

Said, Edward, 8, 11, 35-36, 38, 344, 519-520

Saka Empire, 93, 105

Saljuq Sultanate, 321

Sallust, 40

Samnium, 502

Samudragupta, 499

San Francisco, 288

San Marco, 223

Sanskrit, 61, 353-356, 358-359, 362, 500

Santhal Rebellion, 427

Santiago de Compostela, 332

Sarai, 381

Sardinia, 442

Sartre, Jean-Paul, 515

Sasanian Empire, 105, 211, 334, 337, 347

Satichaura Ghat, 424

Savarkar, Vir, 508

Scheidel, Walter, 55, 129, 131-132

Schleswig, 524, 535-536

Schmitt, Carl, 42, 44-45, 76

Schumpeter, Joseph, 20-21, 25-26

Schwarz, Bill, 512

Schwarz, Roberto, 360-361, 368

Scotland, 523-524

Scott, James C., 292, 312, 417, 426

Seattle, 139

Sedar, Leopold, 402

Seine, 22

Seleucid Empire, 105, 207

Seleucid kings, 207

Selim I, 298

Sennacherib, 257

Senusret I, 232

Sepoy Mutiny/Uprising, 507-509

Septimius Severus, 245

Sety I, 233

Seville, 297

Shaanxi, 468

Shah ‘Abbas, 329, 331

Shahid, 32, 417

Shahjahanabad, 228

Shahnama, 348, 359

Shakespeare, William, 361

Shang, 92, 95, 167, 192

Sharpe, Alfred, 483

Shiji, 58

Siberia, 15, 97, 186, 302, 313

Sichuan, 173

Sicily, xxii, 295, 442

Sidon, 129

Sieferle, Rolf Peter, 447

Silk Road, 470

Sima Qian, 58

Sinai, 365

Sinan, 226, 330

Singapore, 144

Singha, 279

Smith, Adam, 25, 186, 534

Smith, John, 124, 312

Smith, Joseph, 139

Socrates, 354

Sokoto Caliphate, 72

Song, 62, 92, 101, 103, 106, 210, 271, 346, 470 Songhay, xx, 62, 394, 400

South Africa, 145, 277-278, 362, 387-388, 391-392, 397, 402-403, 408, 479, 514, 532

South America, 23, 64, 69, 73, 98, 108, 215, 267, 306, 313, 417, 443, 445, 472, 482

South Asia, 103-106, 126-127, 197, 267, 387, 395, 417, 419, 507

South Atlantic, 512

South Caucasus, 347

South China, 473, 479

South India, 358

South Korea, 144

Southern Asia, 354

Southern Mesopotamia, 462

Soviet Union/USSR, 4, 30, 43-44, 74, 76, 94, 97-98, 103-4, 395, 405-406, 409, 533

Spain, 66, 68, 93, 98, 100, 165, 185-186, 188, 202, 204, 215, 251, 281, 294, 297, 300­302, 312-313, 334, 355, 357, 383-384, 445, 474-475, 477, 513, 532-535

Spanish Empire, 47, 335, 384, 404, 445 Sparta, 54

Spencer, Diana, 502

Sri Lanka, 481

Srivijaya, xx, 61

St Helena, 279

Stalin, Joseph, 48

Stern, Steve, 421

Stone Age, 111, 133, 146

Subrahmanyam, Sanjay, 228

Sudan, 428

Suetonius, 243

Sui, 59, 92, 106, 346, 469

Sullivan, Gordon, 168

Sumer, 130, 170, 183

Surat, 395

Sweden, 450, 524

Syria, 7, 56, 66, 176, 192, 194, 203, 207, 211, 298, 328, 330-332, 338, 467, 526

Szeman, I., 367

Taagepera, Rein, 91

Tacitus, 167, 176

Tagus, 228

Taiping Rebellion, 139, 339, 433

Taiwan, 144, 349, 351, 363, 400

Taizong, 471

Talas River, 470

Tang dynasty, 59, 61, 92, 99, 101, 103, 106, 167, 276, 346, 469-471

Tanganyika, 395, 406

Tansar, 323-324, 340

Taraknath Das, 362

Taurus Mountains, 464

Teng, E. J., 351

Tennessee, 139

Tenochtitlan, 444

Teotihuacan, 472

'Thailand, 127-128

Thapar, Romila, 356

Thatcher, Margaret, 512, 532

Thebes, 238, 257

Theodosius I, 247-248, 327

Third Dynasty of Ur, 126, 160

Thirty Years' War, 141

Thompson, E. P., 418

Thornber, Karen, 461, 468-469

Thutmose I, 235, 237

Thutmose II, 235

Thutmose III, 224, 236-238, 244-245

Tian Shan, 194

Tibet, 92, 303, 313, 514

Tibetan, 381-382

Tigris, 125, 129, 167

Timur, 14

Titicaca, 443-444, 454

Titus, 7, 10

Tiwanaku, 472

Tlingit, 121

Tokugawa, 229

Tolstoy, Leo, 362

Tomlins, Christopher, 274, 279

Topkapi Palace, 226, 229, 251

Tordesillas, Treaty of, 297, 305

Trajan, 532

Tuamotus Islands, 485

Tuareg, 394

Tunis, 321

Thpac Amaru, 445

Turchin, Peter, 123-124

Turkey, 129, 252, 464, 472

Tutuola, Amos, 360

Twining, William, 271

Tyne, 167

Ukraine, 406, 409, 537

Uluburun, 464

Umayyad Caliphate, 96, 99, 101, 444

Umayyad Dynasty, 203 Umma, 170, 383 United Nations/UN, 34, 42-43, 121, 141-142,

144, 163, 270-271, 283, 475, 509 United Provinces, 116 United States/USA, xix, xxi, xxiv, xxvi-xxvii,

1-6, 10-11, 18, 20, 26-27, 36, 43-45, 48,

74, 76, 78, 94-95, 97, 99, 108, 114, 126, 137, 139-143, 165, 168-169, 175, 180, 227, 229, 238, 257-258, 268, 270-271, 280, 282, 293, 300, 307, 352, 358, 366, 377-378, 384, 391, 403-404, 406, 423, 426, 431, 438, 441, 446, 448-450, 454­457, 466, 478, 497, 499, 502-503, 508, 513, 516-517, 520, 523, 525, 527-530, 532, 535, 537-538 Ur, 126, 160, 168, 329 Urals, 99 Uruk, 125 ‘Uthman, 329

van den Wyngaerde, Anton, 300 Vasunia, Phiroze, 35, 40, 353 Vatican, 297 Veneti, 168 Venezuela, 45, 145 Venice, 62, 68, 183, 195-196, 223 Versailles, 42 Vespasian, 7 Via Appia, 416 Victoria, Queen, 228 Vienna, 26, 520, 529, 536-537 Vietnam, 127-128, 143-144, 408, 468,

513, 538

Viqueira, Juan Pedro, 423 Virgil, xix, 345, 352, 354, 498 Virginia, 313, 445

Waver, Ole, 44 Walcott, Derek, 514 Wales, 523 Wallace, Alfred Russell, 483 Wallerstein, Immanuel, 24, 27, 112, 144 War of 1812, 139

Warring States Period, 46 Washington monument, 230-231 Washington, DC, 230-231, 513, 518, 538 Watson, Adam, 46

Weber, Max, 17, 26, 28, 33, 156-158, 203 Weimar Republic, 22

Wen Xuan, 346

West Africa, 72, 306, 429, 524, 530

West Indies, 24, 202, 215, 282, 393, 477, 524

Western Anatolia, 54

Western Asia, 321-322, 333

Western Europe, 66, 143, 160, 163, 169-170, 173, 175, 200-201, 203, 276, 383-384

Western Ghats, 481

Western Han, 92, 103, 106

Western Iran, 53

Western Mediterranean, 129

Westphalia, 127, 135

Wickham, Chris, 32

Wilson, Angus, 510

Wintu, 119-122

Wittfogel, Karl August, 29-30

Wolf, Eric, 32

Woolf, Greg, 380

World War I, 5, 47, 74, 97, 141, 175, 376-377,

398, 405-406, 480, 533-534

World War II, 29, 42, 44-45, 73, 76, 97, 102, 141, 143, 165, 175, 363, 376, 393, 395,

399, 402, 404-407, 409, 509, 512, 533, 538

Wounded Knee Massacre, 432

Wright, Erik Olin, 145

Wu Zhuoliu, 363

Wu/Wudi, 161, 346

Xi Jinping, 168

Xianbei, 92

Xiongnu, 92, 96, 161, 351, 468-469

Xuanzong, 167-168

Yana, 119-120

Yang Guifei, 167

Yellow River, 51, 62, 162

Yemen, 398

Yersin, Alexandre, 484

Yinka Shonibare, 314

Yuan Xuetong, 42

Yuan, xxvii, 32, 42, 64, 99, 106, 386, 471

Yugoslavia, 5, 409

Zaheer, Syed Sajjad, 366-367

Zahn, Wilhelm, 501

Zanzibar, 395, 400

Zapatista revolt, 139

Zarathustra/Zoroaster, 322

Zhao, Dingxin, 34

Zhou dynasty, 56, 91, 95, 162, 167, 210, 346