Agincourt, battle of 58
Akbar, Hasan 118
Al-Assad, Bashar 156
Aljazeera 93
Al-Qaeda 93
America, United States of 13, 15, 39, 41, 55, 57, 65, 67, 81, 84, 96, 101, 110, 113, 117, 123, 139, 141–144, 147–151, 153–154, 156, 159–162, 166, 171–172, 176, 177, 181, 209–211, 220–222
Americanism 96, 141, 151, 159–162
Apartheid (in South Africa) 89, 104, 152, 163
Arafat, Yasser 83
Argus, Don 24
Atatürk, Mustafa Kemal 65
Bannockburn battle 161, 177, 186
Bay of Pigs invasion 200
BBC Prison Study 74, 189, 190, 193, 202–203, 206, 213
Bennett, William 166
Berg, Tony 25
Biko, Steve 30
Bismarck towers 185
Black People’s Convention 30
Bligh, Captain William 166–169
Bonaparte, Napoleon 83
Bonnymuir battle 186
Booth, Anna 24
Bounty (ship), muntiny on 166–167
British Empire 23
Brittas Empire, The (TV show) 220
Bush, George W. 13, 39, 83–84, 139–142, 147, 156, 221
Ceausescu, Nicolae 48
Chief Executive Officers (CEOs) xiii, 11–12, 16, 25, 122–124, 127
Christians/Christ-followers xvi, 193–194
Churchill, Winston 18, 23–24, 82, 147, 171–172, 214, 222
Cicero 172
Civil Rights Movement, US (1955–1968) 57, 131, 162, 172–173, 210
Civil War, US (1861–1865) 160
Clemenceau, Georges 184
Clinton, Bill 113
Cold War 220
Commandos, 11,
see also Marcinko, Richard
Communist Manifesto 94
Congress (US) 151
Conservative Party (UK) 153–154, 157, 159, 178, 208
Cook, Captain James 166
Cuban missile crisis 200
Darman, Richard 147
Darwin, Charles 204
de Gaulle, Charles 60
Demosthenes 160
“Direct Action” campaign 153
Dunkirk battle 214
elections 13–14, 19, 66–68, 82–83, 96, 105, 141, 147–149, 151, 157–159, 161, 177
elite 15, 43, 141, 147–148, 184, 186, 193
Elizabeth I, Queen of England 83, 109, 170
Elizabeth, Queen Mother 138, 142
Engels, Friedrich 94
English Premier League, see Manchester United and Liverpool (football club)
European Football Championship (2004) 92–93
Fairbairn, Nicholas 154
Faisal I of Iraq 184
Faraday, Michael 204
FDR, see Roosevelt, Franklin D.
Fletcher, Christian 166
football crowds 47, 49, 59, 64, 66, 91–93, 118, 219
football fans 19, 46–47, 59, 89, 92–93, 219
French Revolution (1789–1799) 19, 183, 216, 221–222
Führer, see Hitler, Adolf
Führerprinzip 180
Gandhi, Mohandas Karamchand 203, 216, 222
Garibaldi, Giuseppe 65
George III, King of England 169, 201, 222
Gettysburg Address (Lincoln) 160–161, 162, 210
Goethals, George Washington 110, 221
Golden Speech (Elizabeth I) 109, 170
Gorbachev, Mikhail 114
Graham, Billy 11
Guantanamo Bay 93
Gulf War, First (1990–1991) 156–157
Gulf War, Second (2003), see Iraq War
Haile Selassie 83
Hawking, Stephen 96
Henry V, King of England 28, 58
Hindu–Muslim conflict 153, 191
Hitler, Adolf 6–7, 23–24, 94, 179–181, 187–188, 198, 203, 215–216, 218
hoi polloi (the many) 15
see also football fans
Hussein, Saddam 11, 84, 156–157
Iqbal, Muhammed 153
“I have a dream” speech (Martin Luther King) 162, 210
Iraq War (2003) 84, 94, 118, 139, 142
Jackson, Andrew 148
Jesus Christ xvi, 10–12, 131, 194
JFK, see Kennedy, John F.
Jinnah, Muhammad Ali 65, 152–153
Joan of Arc 83
Johnson, Lyndon 175
Kennedy, John F. 37, 57, 149–151, 153, 171–172, 175–178, 200, 209, 222
King, Martin Luther Jr. 32, 57, 131, 162, 210
Labour Party (UK) 138, 142, 157, 159–160, 208
Lautenberg, Frank 142
Ledru-Rollin, Alexandre 216
Lincoln, Abraham 2, 131, 139, 140, 160–161, 172–178, 200, 210
Liverpool (football club) 59
Louis XIV, King of France 167–169, 201
Louis XV, King of France 168–169
Louis XVI, King of France, 167–169, 201
Macbeth of Scotland 63
Macbeth (play) 63
Machiavelli, Niccolo 33, 37, 215
Mackay, James (Lord Mackay of Clashfern) 157–158
Major, John 208
Manchester United 59
Mandela, Nelson 32, 89, 104, 152–153, 163, 203
Marie-Antoinette, Queen of France 169
McCarthy, Senator Joe 191
McCarthyism 191
Mein Kampf 198
Members of Parliament (MPs) 138, 153–154, 186
Menendez, Robert 142
Middle East 156, 184–185, 191, 193, 220
Milgram’s “obedience” experiments 210–211
military contexts xiv, xxiv, 6–8, 18, 23, 27–28, 48, 54, 58, 60, 82, 84, 91, 93–94, 118–119, 138–140, 142, 146, 150–151, 156, 160–161, 167, 174–175, 181–182, 184–186, 191, 208–209, 214, 220–222
Milosevic, Slobodan 191
monarchs, as leaders 18, 27–28, 58–59, 83, 109, 138, 142, 167–170, 184–186, 200–201, 219, 221–222
Mother Theresa 11
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus 204
Mussolini, Benito 6
Nazism (National Socialism) 6, 23, 94, 155–156, 179, 180–181, 186–187, 214, 218–219
Nicholas II, Tsar of Russia 166
Nixon–Kennedy debates 151
Nuremberg rallies 179, 187, 218
Obama, Barack 13, 15, 19, 39, 68–69, 148, 175
Office, The (TV show) 220
Othello (play) 211
Palestinian–Israeli peace process 191
Parlement (in Paris) 168
parliament (in London) 91, 109, 153–154, 170, 186
Parliament, Scottish (in Edinburgh) 157, 186, 187
Paul, Saint 4, 127, 131, 193–195
Pericles 148
Peron, Eva 109
Pisistratus 148
political contexts xxiv, 1, 29–30, 33, 39, 44, 48, 55–56, 60, 67–71, 76, 82–91, 105, 119–120, 138, 140–141, 144–146, 148–149, 151, 154, 157–159, 161–163, 170, 172, 177–185, 191, 198, 202, 209, 215–217
Powell, Enoch 215
Prince, The (political treatise) 33
Rahmat Ali, Choudhary 153
Reagan, Ronald 147–148, 160, 166
Redwood, John 208
Robert I, King of Scotland (Robert the Bruce) 186
Rodriguez, Richard 19
Romanian Revolution (1989) 48
Roosevelt, Franklin D. 23, 149, 150, 151
Rumsfeld, Donald 84
Russian Revolution (1917) 166, 189
Salmond, Alex 158
Scotish National Party 157–159, 161
Scotland 50, 63, 71, 92, 144, 154, 157–161, 177–178, 186–187
Scottishness 66, 144, 157–159, 186
Securitate 48
Serbian nationalism 191
Serbio-Croatian war, see Balkan conflict
Shakespeare, William 27–28, 58, 63
Sharon, Ariel 220
Sillars, Jim 161
South Africa 30, 89, 104, 152–153, 163
sporting teams 19, 44, 46–47, 49, 52–54, 57–59, 64, 66, 89, 119, 120
Stalin, Joseph 23
Stanford Prison Experiment 22, 74
Thatcher, Margaret 159, 208–209
Übermensch, see superman
Uncle Sam, 160,
see also Cold War
United States, see America, United States of
Vancouver, Captain George 166
Victoria, Queen of the United Kingdom 83
Vietnam war 140
war xiv, 6–8, 23, 48, 84, 91, 93–94, 118–119, 138–140, 142, 150–151, 156–157, 160, 167, 174–175, 181, 184–186, 191, 208, 214, 222
Washington, George 98, 101, 113, 210
Webb, Jim 142
Welch, Jack 11
Wilberforce, William 200
Wilson, James 186
World Cup 92
World Trade Center, NY 93
World War II 6–8, 23, 150, 208
Yom Kippur War 22