Empires Apart (84 page)

Maciejowice, battle of,
196–97

Mackenzie, Alexander,
213

Macready, William,
240–41

Madison, James,
208
,
209

Madoc ab Owan Gwynedd,
38–39

Maine
,
288

Mainwaring, Henry,
45

Malvinas,
217

Manchuria,
327

manifest destiny

America,
95–96
,
181
,
244

Russia,
129
,
181

Mansur, Sheikh,
239

Marcy, William Learned,
227

Marshall Plan,
441–42

Marx, Karl,
358

Marxism,
358–60
,
396–97

Maryland,
53
,
102

Masaryk, Jan,
437
,
438

mass murder,
484

Massachusetts,
53
,
179

Massachusetts Bay Company,
98–99

massacres

Conestoga,
157–58

East St. Louis,
344

Katyn,
465

My Lai,
491

Mystic,
86
,
88

No Gun Ri,
491

Sand Creek,
280

see also
pogroms

Mayflower,
92–93

McCarthy, Joseph,
497

McKinley, William,
286
,
288
,
289
,
317
,
335

media,
352–53
,
439
,
479
,
543–44

Mediterranean,
216

Medvedev, Dmitry,
551

Mendelev, Dmitri,
311

Menendez, Pedro de,
47
,
48

mercenary soldiers,
172–73
. See also filibusters

Mexico,
233
,
235–36
,
243
,
376
,
528
,
534

Michikinikwa (Litte Turtle),
186

Middle East,
437
,
450–53

military force

America,
424
,
459–60
,
489
,
492
,
493

Russia,
489

military imperialism,
505

military leaders,
264

Miniconjou Sioux,
282

Minuit, Peter,
104

Miranda, Francisco de,
187

Mississippi,
190

Mississippian culture,
42–43

Mitrione, Dan,
486

modern values,
272

Moldova,
503

Molly Maguires,
351
,
355

Mongolia,
396

Mongols,
65–68
,
70–72

Monk, Maria,
223

monopolists,
321

Monroe Doctrine

Canada,
278

Carter Doctrine,
491

legal theory,
524

origin,
214
,
447
,
476

Roosevelt Corollary,
332

Wilson,
384

Monroe, James,
214

Montojo, Patricio,
289

Moors,
33

Morgan, Henry,
45–46

Morgan, John Pierpoint,
308

Morison, Samuel Eliot,
89
,
309

Mosaddeq, Mohammed,
450–54

Moscow,
203

Moskvitin, Ivan,
117

Mueller, Gerhard,
27–28

Muravyev, Nikolay,
325

murder, mass,
484

Muscovy,
111

Muscovy Company,
49

My Lai massacre,
491

Myers, Abraham,
271

Mystic Massacre,
86
,
88

Napoleon,
200–206

nationalism,
412

Native Americans,
39–43

campaigns against,
156–58
,
265
,
275
,
280–83

diseases,
44
,
52

English settlers,
51
,
54

Fallen Timbers,
197

Florida,
230

Indian Removal Act,
231

land,
219–20

New England,
86–91

Tippecanoe,
208

treaties with,
186
,
280

War of 1812,
217

wars,
87
,
217

native leaders,
123

native religions,
122

navy,
215–17
,
402–3
,
492

Negroponte, John,
487

neo-imperialism,
444–45

New England,
86–89
,
91–101
,
105
,
187

New Orleans, battle of,
210–11

New Sweden,
104

New York,
102
,
249

Nicaragua,
241
,
410
,
487

Nicholas I,
199
,
222
,
236

Nicholas II,
199

abdication,
346

Asia,
324

assassination attempt,
335

autocracy,
342

Duma,
345

Manchuria,
327

October Manifesto,
336

pogroms,
343

role as tsar,
317

Nixon, Richard M.,
480
,
488
,
489

No Gun Ri massacre,
491

nobility,
135–36

North Ossetia,
543

north-south divide, America,
206–7

Novgorod,
13
,
22
,
69–70
,
76

Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty,
502

Obama, Barack,
550–51

October Manifesto,
336

October Revolution,
348

oil

America,
433–34
,
443
,
491
,
492

corporations,
312
,
370
,
413
,
434
,
493

Iran,
451

markets,
539–40

Russia,
406
,
506

Old Believers,
415

Olga (Helga),
23

oligarchs

American Civil War,
256

Bermuda,
167

business practices,
308

corporations,
365
,
421
,
518

free markets,
340

greed,
318
,
320

Hamilton,
184

Hawaii,
284

Massachusetts,
179

media,
353

political power,
312
,
356

power,
300
,
310
,
374
,
421

railways,
309
,
368–69

Russia,
310
,
312
,
362
,
374
,
505–6

Virginia,
54
,
55

Olney Corollary,
214
,
524
,
525

Olney, Richard,
214

oprichniki,
76
,
78
.
See also
secret police

Oregon,
240

Osceola,
231

O'Sullivan, John,
244

Pacific,
324

Pacific Railroad Act,
279

Paine, Thomas,
169–70
,
174
,
247

Panama,
148
,
332

Pan-American Congress,
528–29

Pan-Slavism,
236

Paris,
204

Parker, Fess,
149

patrimonial society,
136

patriotism,
513

Paul, John.
See
Jones, John Paul

Paul (Tsar),
198
,
199
,
201
,
212

Pavlov, Ivan,
311

Pavlutsky, Dmitri,
281

Paxton Boys,
157
,
158

Pearl Harbor,
426
,
433

Pearson,
515–16

peasants.
See
serfs

Peck, Gregory,
500

Pemberton, John Stith,
367–68

Penn, Thomas,
103

Penn, William,
102

Pennsylvania,
102

People's Will,
300

Pequot,
87
,
88

Pequot War,
88–89

perestroika
,
495
,
502

Perovskaya, Sophia,
301

Perry, George,
51

Peter III,
140

Peter the Great,
20
,
130–34
,
137–38

Peters, Hugh,
98

PFI (Private Finance Initiative),
538–39

Philadelphia,
105

Philippines,
276
,
288–90
,
435
,
444

Pilgrim Fathers.
See
Pilgrims

Pilgrims,
46
,
53

myth,
92
,
94

Plymouth colony,
92–96
,
99

terror,
85

Pining, Dietrich,
37

Pinkerton, Allan,
355

Pinkertons,
355

Pinochet, Augusto,
480

Pipes, Richard,
548

piracy,
45

Plehve, Vyacheslav,
344

Plymouth colony,
92
,
99

Pobedonostev, Konstantin,
304–5

pogroms

America,
7
,
344
,
345

Russia,
343
,
344
,
345

see also
massacres

Poland

1863 revolt,
238

Alexander I,
201

Congress of Vienna,
206

independence,
503

Katyn massacre,
465

partitions,
194–97

Russian expansion,
126
,
127

Second World War,
425

Solidarity,
502

Ukraine,
126
,
393–94

Warsaw battle,
394

Warsaw revolt,
232

Polar Bear expedition,
375

police state,
222

Political Action Committees,
518

political frameworks, protest within,
268

political life,
183
,
223
,
518–19

Politkovskaya, Anna,
508

Polk, James,
235
,
236
,
240

Poniatowski, Stanislas Augustus.
See
Stanislas II

population growth,
251

Port Arthur,
325
,
327

Pothorst, Hans,
37

Poyarkov, Vasily,
118

‘praying towns,'
91

presidential elections,
267
,
303
,
378–79

presidents, America,
183
,
264
,
549

Prestowitz, Clyde,
545

price-fixing,
320

primogeniture,
145–46

Pritsak, Omeljan,
28

Private Finance Initiative (PFI),
538–39

Procter & Gamble,
538

propaganda,
380

protests, political frameworks,
268

psychological imperialism,
504

Puerto Rico,
286
,
290
,
291
,
444

Pugachev, Emilian,
270

Pugachev rebellion,
270

purges,
439

Puritans,
86–89
,
93
,
96
,
99–102
,
187

Putin, Vladimir,
494
,
506
,
507
,
508

Quakers,
99
,
102

Quitman, John,
242

racism,
57–58
,
271
,
416
,
418

Radhaniya,
29

Radischev, Alexander,
246

railways

America,
278–79
,
368–69
,
371

Russia,
310
,
324
,
376–77

Reagan, Ronald,
478
,
480
,
548

Red Indians,
156
.
See also
Native Americans

Regents,
226

regime change,
450–56
,
480

Rehnquist, William,
374

religion,
122
,
187
,
189–90
,
197
,
257
,
547

religious discrimination,
100–103

religious fundamentalism,
97

Republicans,
302
,
303

Revere, Paul,
162
,
163

revolutionary socialists,
337

revolutions,
178

revolvers,
248

Rhode Island,
100

Ribault, Jean,
47
,
48

rice,
527

Rice, Condoleezza,
522–23

right,
448

right of free speech,
373

rights, corporate,
363
,
371

rights of man,
219