A
Aesop
Africa 50
Albigensian heresy 28
Alexander the Great 4
Anabaptists 94
Angles 25
Anglo-Saxons 26
Antony, Mark 21
aristocracy 16, 22
Aristophanes 12
Aristotle 8, 13, 16, 17, 45
Attlee, Clement 63, 64
Austria 53, 56
B
Bacon, Francis 16, 95
Bagehot, Walter 66–7
Basques 48
Belgium 58
Bentham, Jeremy 83
Bethmann Hollweg, Theobold von 58
Bodin, Jean 39
Boleyn, Anne 36
Bolsheviks 73
Botero, Fernando 37
Britain 17, 61, 67, 68, 74
Brittany 48
Brutus, Junius 21, 103
Brutus, Marcus 21
Burke, Edmund 72, 75–6
C
Caesar, Julius 21
Caligula 2
Cassius, Caius 21
Castro, Fidel 7
Cavour, Count Camillo 58
Cervantes, Miguel de 48
Charlemagne 20, 28
Charles I 40
China 1, 2, 27, 55
Christianity 11, 25–33, 44, 52, 58–9, 94, 97
Churchill, John 56
Churchill, Winston 57, 63–4, 70
Cicero 8, 38
Cicero, Marcus Tullius 23, 38
Civil War, US 62, 64
Clauswitz, Karl von 53
Cleon 13
Clovis 52
Coke, Justice Edward 40
conservatism 73, 76, 79
Corday, Charlotte 7
Cromwell, Oliver 36
D
Danton, Georges 7
David, King 2
Declaration of Independence 75
democracy 11, 17, 22, 81, 84–5, 110
Democratic Party (US) 71, 77
Demosthenes 8
despotism 1–9, 36, 72, 95, 106
Diodotus 13
Disraeli, Benjamin 63
E
Elizabeth I 36
Engels, Frederick 96, 98
England 28, 29, 34, 35, 56, 82, 94
Essex, Earl of 36
Estates General 29
F
fascism 73
Factory Acts 77
Ferguson, Adam 95
feudalism 27
First World War 19, 58
Fox, Charles James 75
France 20, 28, 56, 57, 61, 64, 70, 75–6, 88, 95, 110
Franks 25, 52
freedom 63, 79–85
French Revolution 7, 20, 34, 40, 56, 64, 75–6, 98, 109
G
Gaulle, Charles de 56–7, 70, 88
Germany 28, 35, 48, 53–7, 95, 110
Gilbert, W. S. 71, 72
Gladstone, William Ewart 63, 64
globalization 59
Goldwater, Barry 70
Goths 25
Greeks 2–4, 9, 10–17, 19–20, 23, 30, 37
Grey, Lady Jane 36
H
Hannibal 23
Harun Al Raschid 1
Hegel, Georg 41, 49, 59, 95–6, 97
Henry VIII 40
Herodotus 8
Hitler, Adolf 2, 63–4
Hobbes, Thomas 38–40, 49, 53–4, 58, 82, 83
Holocaust 110
Holy Roman Empire 20
Horace 19
Huns 25
I
idealism 59
ideology 94–102
India 2, 27, 58
internationalism 59–60, 104–5
Ireland 48, 64
Israelites 1–2
Italy 37
J
James I 40
James, Duke of York 74
James, William 72–3
Jefferson, Thomas 57
Jews 2, 23
John, King 28
justice 1, 63, 79–85, 95, 105
K
Kennedy, John F. 66
Koestler, Arthur 66
Kremlin 61
Labour Party, British 67, 71, 76–7
liberalism 71, 74–5, 79
liberty, see freedom
Lincoln, Abraham 64
Locke, John 40, 75
London 61
Louis XIV 56
Lousiana Purchase 57
Lucretia 21
Luther, Martin 34
Lycurgus 14
M
MacDonald, Ramsay 63
Machiavelli, Nicolo 9, 20, 24, 31, 37, 38, 87, 103
Magna Carta 28, 63
Malthus, Thomas 45–6
Marat, Jean-Paul 7
Marx, Karl 20, 50, 55, 73, 96–9, 100
Mary, Queen of Scots 36
Mazzini, Giuseppe 48
media 64–5
Melbourne 63
Menenius Agrippa 43
monarchy 21
Monopoly 55–6
Monroe Doctrine 57
More, Thomas 36, 40
Mussolini, Benito 73
N
Napoleon 20, 56, 58, 98
nationalism 48–9, 50
Nazism 53, 64, 73
Nero 2
New Liberalism 77
Nietzsche, Friedrich 31
Nixon, Richard 40
O
Octavian 21
oligarchy 10, 16, 69
one-party states 71–2
oppression 105
P
Paine, Thomas 109
papacy 32–3
parliaments 29
parties 71–8
Peel, Robert 63
Pericles 5, 18
Persia 10
persuasion 66–9
Pilgrim Fathers 44
Plato 8, 10, 12, 16, 18, 79–80, 94–5
Plutarch 43
Poland 53, 57
political science 58–67, 86–93
Polybius 16, 22–3, 87
Pope 32, 34
Pope, Alexander 86
prisoner’s dilemma 92
private/public distinction 5
Protestantism 32
Provence 28
Prussia 53, 56
Putney debates 36
Rabelais, François 48
Racine, Jean 48
rationality 47–8, 91–2, 105
Rawl, John 63
realism 59, 60
Red Cross 59
Reform Bills 63
Reformation 34, 44
Republican Party, US 71
Richelieu, Cardinal 57
Robespierre, Maximilian 7
Roman Catholic Church 32
Romans 3, 4, 9, 16, 19–24, 30, 32–3, 37, 38, 53, 55, 59, 103, 111
Romulus 19, 21
Roundheads and Cavaliers 63
Rousseau, Jean-Jacques 84
Russia 53, 56, 57
S
St Augustine 19, 30, 82
St Just, Louis de 7
St Paul 30
St Peter 32
St Thomas Aquinas 43, 45
Samuel 2
Saul 2
Scheherazade 1
Second World War 63
self-interest 49
Serbia 48
Shaftesbury, Lord 77
Shakespeare, William 8, 35, 43, 48
Smith, Adam 46, 47, 95
socialism 74, 75, 76, 77–8, 96
Socrates 10, 12
Solomon 2
Solon 14–15, 105
sound-bites 64
South Africa 7
sovereignty 39
Spain 56
Stalin 2, 6
statesmen 70
Stoics 59
Suez Canal 57
Sweden 56
T
Talleyrand 58
Tarquin the Proud 21
Thales 97
Thatcher, Margaret 77
theatre of politics 61
Theseus 14
Thirty Years War 35
Thucidides 13, 14, 18
Tocqueville, Alexis de 85
Tory 63
totalitarianism 72, 109–10
Truman, Harry S. 66
Turks 73
U
United Nations 60
United States of America 20, 54–5, 57, 62, 63–4, 77, 82, 85, 88, 110
USSR 6, 54–5, 63–4 see also Russia
V
Verdun, Treaty of 28
Visigoths 25
W
war 52–60
War of Independence, American 62
Wars of the Roses 35
Washington 61
Watergate 40
Welfare State 67, 77
Westphalia, Treaty of 41
Whig 63, 75
William III 56
Wilson, Harold 63
Wilson, Woodrow 48