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Aachen (Aix-la-Chapelle) 5, 75, 152, 392; Conference of 36

Aall, Hans 533

Abd al-Hafid, Sultan of Morocco 692, 699

Abd el-Kader al-Dzejairi 636

Abdülaziz, Ottoman Sultan 237, 673, 674

Abdülhamid II, Ottoman Sultan 237, 439, 474, 674, 675–7, 688–90

Abel, Karl von 183

Aberdeen, Music Hall 528

Ablis 264

Åbo (Turku, Finland) 444

abortion 410, 543

absinthe 512

absolutism: in Austria-Hungary 241, 246, 254, 586; and carbonari 39; in Denmark 199; in Europe 159, 219; in France 593; in Portugal 73; in Spain 37; see also Russia

Abu Simbel 627

Abyssinia 591, 649, 652–3, 655

A.C. Milan (earlier Milan Cricket and Foot-Ball Club) 513

accident insurance 551–2

Ackerman, Convention of 58

Acropolis (Greek newspaper) 462

Acton, Lord (John Dalberg-Acton, 1st Baron Acton) xvii, 464, 499

Acton, Dr William 413

Acts of Union (Ireland) 184

Adana 689

Adler, Victor 517

administration, local 282

Adowa, Battle of 652

Adrianople (Edirne, Odrin) 675, 695, 696

Adriatic Sea 8, 365

adultery 504, 505, 524

AEG (Allgemeine Elektrizitäts-Gesellschaft) 302–3

Aegean Sea 53, 54, 675, 677, 693

Aestheticism 532

Afghanistan 400, 638, 677, 683

Africa: art 534; cotton sales by Britain to 133, 300; as Dark Continent 681; diamond mines 648; Disraeli and 683; empires of xvi, 18, 629–39, 662; exploration of 631; German protectorates in 646–7; Germany and 654–7; imports 283; medical care in 682; nationalist movements 633; Ottoman Empire and 53; and slave trade 635; sub-Saharan 637; trade with 637; weaker states in 19; see also ‘Scramble for Africa’; South-West Africa; West Africa

Agadir Crisis 692

Agnelli, Giovanni 381–2

agricultural machinery 282–3, 337

agriculture: agrarian reforms 50, 95, 96, 107, 108; in Britain 95, 113, 115, 306; crisis of 1870s 339, 348; in Europe 115–17, 122–4, 282–4; fertilizers 116, 284, 301; improvement in 354; in Italy 100, 112; in Russia 87, 89–90,

95, 97–8, 102–4, 284–5; working conditions and hours 337–8, see also crops; famine; farming, farmers; serfdom; sharecroppers

Ahlwardt, Hermann 570

aircraft xix, 387–8; cross-Channel flights 515; mechanized flight 386–8

airships 387

Aisne, river 149

Aksakov, Konstantin Sergeyevich 489

Aksakov family 368

Alaska 641

Albania: in Balkan Wars 693–4, 697; criminality in 345; Great Council 224; independence 695, 697–8; Islam in 474, 678, 693; Kanun Leke 344; and Montenegro 678, 692, 697; and Ottoman Empire 53; and railways 152; Tanzimat and 223–4; taxation in 223; uprising (1843) 224; uprising (1910) 692

Albanians, in Macedonia 688, 693

Albéniz, Isaac: España 528; Iberia 528

Albert, Prince Consort 252, 293, 399, 405, 425, 503

Albert, Marcelin 570–71

Albert the Worker 200

Albertus Magnus 473

Albrecht, Archduke, Duke of Teschen 255

alcohol consumption 511–13, 517, 518; banned in music-halls 518

alcoholism 397, 431, 439, 512, 625

Aleppo 209

Ålesund 372–3, 531

Alexander, R. S., Europe’s Uncertain Path xvi

Alexander I, Tsar of Russia: and carbonari 40; character and personality 22; death 43, 45; and Decembrists 47; on German universities 496; and Holy Alliance 22; and immigrant Germans 8; and Kapodistrias 60; Kotzebue and 34; and Metternich 44; and Napoleonic reforms 49; and Ottoman Empire 54, 57; and poor relief 118; and Razumovsky ball 20; religious beliefs 459; as road traveller 149; and Speransky 18–19

Alexander II, Tsar of Russia: and abolition of serfdom 94, 96; assassination 350, 475, 611–12, 614; and Bosnia 674; and Crimean War 236, 237–8; and Jews 615; and Lutherans 461; and Ottoman Empire 674; reforms 237–8, 246, 278, 496, 610, 611, 614, 671; and Serbia 673–4

Alexander III, Tsar of Russia 404, 491, 502, 614–15

Alexander Obrenović, King of Serbia 691

Alexandra Feodorovna, Empress of Russia (earlier Princess Charlotte of Prussia) 46–7, 620

Alexandria 627

Alexandru Ioan Cuza, Prince, Domnitor of Romania 679

Alexei Nikolaevich, Tsarevich 620

Alfa Romeo 381

Algeçiras, Treaty of 700

Algeria: army 645; France declares war on 64; French annexation of 635–7; as French colony 350, 664; insurgents deported to 201, 218; Jews in 636

Algiers 64, 636

Ali III, Bey of Tunis 645

Ali Pasha, Tepedelenli 53, 55, 474

Alibeaud, Louis 67

Allemane, Jean 560, 561

Allies (coalition forces against Napoleon) 3, 12, 14

Alma, Battle of the 234

Almanach de Gotha 279

Alpine Club 365

Alps 303, 304, 305, 359, 364, 365, 368; crossed by balloon 386

Alsace 134, 609

Alsace-Lorraine 265, 383, 645, 646, 698

Alster Lake 308, 371

Amadeo I, King of Spain 108

Amalgamated Society of Engineers, Machinists, Millwrights and Patternmakers 163, 227

ambulances, horse-drawn 182

America, United Sates of:, see United States of America

Americanization (as term) 623

Amhara 652

amnesties 66, 87, 110, 180, 194, 217, 241, 246, 357, 438

Amour sacré de la patrie 70

amputations 419–20, 421

Amsterdam 119, 136, 561; Concertgebouw 528

Amundsen, Roald 633–4

Amur (province) 641

Amur, river 377

Anacapri 530

anaesthetics 418–20, 421; addiction to 418

anarchism xx, 108, 175, 176, 266, 561–3, 570, 614

anarcho-syndicalism 549, 550

Anatolia 53, 69, 649, 671

anatomy schools 422

Ancona 215, 241

Andalusia 129

Anderegg, Melchior 365

Anderson, Elizabeth Garrett 506, 541

Andrássy, Count Gyula 259

Andrian-Werburg, Viktor Baron von 181

Angell, Norman, The Great Illusion 688

Angiolillo, Michele 563

Anglo-Belgian India Rubber Company 663

Anglo-Burmese War (third) 668

Anglo-Catholicism 457

Anglo-Japanese Alliance 651–2

Anglo-Ottoman Convention (1838) 133

Angra Pequena, south-west Africa 646

animals: bullfighting 362–3; in city streets 309; and cruel sports 442; extinction of 364; wild 355–6, 358–64; see also bears, foxes, horses, hunting, lion-taming, lynx, sheep and cattle

Annales School xiii

Annam 649

anthrax 398, 402

anti-Bolshevism 277

Anti-Corn-Law League 185, 537

anti-feminism 330, 538-9, 541, 543-4

Anti-Slavery Conference (Brussels, 1889) 662

anti-war rallies 714

antibiotics 398, 423

anticlericalism 422, 458, 464–6, 468–9, 594, 597

antisemitism: among Christians 478; in Austria 479, 501, 585; and conspiracy theory 347, 480, 597–8; Dickens and 480; in France 596–7; in Germany 330, 478–9, 499, 554, 570; ‘Hep-Hep’ movement 10, 46; in Poland 347; priests and 475; racialized 686; riots 10, 46; in Russia 401, 480, 620, 711, see also Jews

antiseptics 420–21, 442

Anton, King of Saxony 96

Antwerp 70, 72, 152

Anzin 164

Apennines 359, 365, 369

Apis, Colonel (Dragutin Dimitrijević) 691, 693, 705–6

Appenzell 8

Applegarth, Robert 549

apprenticeships 158–9, 162, 166, 353

Arabia 53, 649

Arabian Nights 630

Arabs 628, 633, 636–7, 647, 657, 692

Aragon 107

archaeology 630

architecture 453–4

Arconati-Visconti, Marchioness 320

Ardennes 473

Arenberg and Croy, Engelbert, Duke of 287

Argentina 16, 350, 351; Jews in 475

Argyll, George Campbell, 8th Duke of 408

aristocracy 20, 37, 38, 84, 166, 210; as class 291, 353; decline of 278–82, 567; French 636; in Poland 526; social life of 289–90, see also landowners (seigneurs), nobility

Arlidge, John Thomas 141

Armenians: in Anatolia 689; massacres of 689, 715

arms and warfare methods 548, 625, 653–4, 674, 690; modern 688, 690, 697, 702–3, see also guerrilla warfare

Armstrong-Whitworth 299

army officers 12, 20, 37, 42–3, 50, 52, 83, 179, 221, 278, 319, 320, 340, 480, 556, 569, 690, 691

Arndt, Ernst Moritz 33; What is the German’s Fatherland 195

Arnim, Bettina von, This Book Belongs to the King 166

Arnold, Thomas 492–3

Arnoldi, Bishop Wilhelm 455

Arons, Leo 325, 556

Arrow locomotive 155

arson 373

Årsta 444, 447

art: in Biedermeier period 444–7, 447, 449–50; in Britain 521; Classical tradition 451; Cubism 533; depiction of nature 356; depiction of time 395; Expressionism 532; Fauvists 532; in France 520–22; Futurism 533; in Germany 527; in Italy 526; landscape painting 526, 532; modernism xx; portraits 523; Realist 520–22, 526, 530; representational xix; Romantic 449–50, 451; in Russia 522, 526

art and antiquities, looting of 626–30

Art Nouveau (Jugendstil) 531

Arthur, George 659

artisans 75, 78, 83, 187, 200, 220, 305, 326, 348

Arts and Crafts movement 533–4

‘Aryans’ 656, 685, 686

Aschaffenburg, Gustav 439

Ashanti 662

Ashley, Lord see Shaftesbury

Ashton-under-Lyne 154

Asia: British exports to 133; central 641; cholera in 400-1; colonization xv, 352, 649; exploration 634; Islam in 18; medical care in 682; rubber production 663; Russian domination in 22, 352, 528, 624, 640-1, 677, 699; trade in 352

Askja, volcanic eruption 371

aspirin 301, 420

Asquith, Herbert Henry 281, 538, 539, 579–80, 582, 708, 713

assassinations 242, 350, 475, 603–4, 611–12, 614, 616, 679, 704–7, 715

Asseiceira, Battle of 73

Assiniboia, Manitoba 658

associations, clubs and societies 319–20, 513; art 534; cycling 383; educational 270; feminist 268-9; men’s 501; reading 516; trade 300

Astrakhan 150

astronomy 388–9

Asturias 350; coalfields 334, 339, 377

atheism 175, 176–7, 470

Athens 61, 690; Parthenon 629–30; religious riots 462; Temple of Zeus 462

atrocities: against Armenians 689; in Balkan Wars 697; colonial 575, 664, 687

Attila the Hun 651

Auber, Daniel, La muette de Portici 70, 81–2

Auclert, Hubertine 508, 541–2

Aude department, France 510

audio reproduction 443

Auer, Ignaz 556

Auersperg, Prince Adolf von 584

Auerstedt, Battle of 23

Augsburg 9; social clubs 319

Augspurg, Anita 542, 543, 545

Austin, Herbert 382

Austin, Sarah 488

Australasia, medical care in 682

Australia: Aborigines, killings of 658–9; Border Police Force 659; colonization 19; emigration to 351; European population 639; exploration of 630, 634; Irish emigrants to 347; racist references to 683; self-administration 658; sugar plantations 640; transportation of convicts to 435–6, 659; strange taste for Vegemite 301

Austria: and action against revolution 77; agriculture in 100, 101; antisemitism in 479; army 241, 242, 246; art associations 534; attack on Venice 217; Austrian Engineers’ Association 323; in battle of Sadowa 254–7; Bismarck and 261; and carbonari 75; Catholic Church in 213; Christian Social Party 466; Concordat with Pius IX 240, 466; and Congress of Vienna 23; and Crimean War 239, 241, 254; exile in 54, 65; exports from 305; franchise 600; and Galician uprising 187; Garibaldi and 221; and German Confederation 33, 250; and Holstein 253; and Holy Alliance 22–3; horse-railway 151; industrial companies 287; invasion of Budapest 205–6, 207–8; and Italian unification 178, 222, 240–43, 583; judicial power 99; legislature 37, 622; literacy in 481; literature 447; local councils 99; and Lombardy 40; and Macedonia 688; and Napoleon 3, 180; and Netherlands 194; Nicholas I and 51; and Pius IX 216; and Poland 249, 495–6, 572; police 240, 294; and Polish uprising 52; public executions in 432; and Quadruple Alliance 36; railways 240; Reichsrat 240, 583, 585; relations between Church and state 466; Royal and Imperial Steamboat Company 150; and Schleswig-Holstein 199; serfdom in 88, 93–4; Social Democratic Party of Austria 557; socialism in 567; steamships 150; and tariff barriers 145, 240; telegraph system 157; textile production 134, 297; and Treaty of Berlin 677; and Treaty of San Stefano 675; troops 14; universal male suffrage 568, 570; and uprisings in Italy 40–41; urban life 113; vigilante justice 343; in Wars of Italian Unification 27; and women in politics 269; women’s socialist movement 566; women’s suffrage movement in 566, see also Austria-Hungary; Habsburg Empire

Austria-Hungary: absolutism in 241, 246, 254, 586; annexation of Bosnia-Herzegovina 692, 693, 705, 709; and Balkan Wars 697, 698; birth rates 408, 409; ‘Black Friday’ 584; and Bosnia 88; Christian Social Party 585; and coal industry 147; curiae 583–4, 585; Czech Realists 585; death rates 404; declaration of war on Serbia 707; decline in population

404; diets 583; as Dual Monarchy 259, 260, 572, 582, 583, 586, 609; emigration from 349–50; fall of empire 715; franchise 582, 584, 585; and franchise 582–5; industry 297; Jews in 475, 476; national minorities 572, 585, 609; nationalism in 582, 584; nationalization of masses 582–8; Old Ruthenes 585; Polish Populists 585; population 409; railways 377; returnees to 348; rural poverty 297; Russia and 233; seeks support from Germany 713; and Serbia 691–2, 713; and Slav nationalism 687; Slovene Clericals 585; Social Democrats 585; socialism in 582, 585; stability of borders after 1870 266; standardization of time 391; and tariff barriers 285; traffic regulation 314; treaty with Romania 681; and Triple Alliance 698; ultimatum to Serbia 706–7, 710; war party 705, see also Austria; Habsburg Empire

Austrian Succession, War of 26, 28

Austro-Hungarian Compromise (Ausgleich) (1867) 260, 459, 582, 586

Austro-Hungarian Dual Monarchy see Austria-Hungary

Austro-Italian War 558

Austro-Prussian War 254–7, 465, 671

Austro-Russian Treaty (1846) 187

avalanches 369

Avé-Lallemant, Friedrich Christian Benedikt 340–41

Aveling, Thomas 282–3

L’Avenir du Cantal 514

Axelrod, Pavel Borisovich 613–14

Ayrshire 301

Azerbaijan 311

Babeuf, François-Noël 75

baccalauréat 491–2, 507

Bach, Johann Sebastian, St Matthew Passion 453

Bach Society 454

Bács (Bač, Batsch) 6

bacteriology 422

Bad Ems 261

Baden, Grand Duchy of: abolition of serfdom in 88; Bavarian claim on 36; constitution 190; crop failure 6; declared republic 212; emigration from 8, 212; influence of 605; liberalism in 76; railways 152, 153; serfdom in 97; social protest in 164; and tariff barriers 145; universities 506; urban improvement 316

Baden-Baden 289

badger-baiting 361–2

Baedeker guidebooks 317, 358, 385, 489

Bagehot, Walter, The English Constitution 227

Baghdad, railway to 688

bagnes 437

Bahia, Brazil 267

Baielesti 105

Bain, Alexander 390

Bainbridge’s (department store), Newcastle 328

Baker, Samuel and Florence 631

Baku 311

Bakunin, Mikhail 176–7, 210–11, 219, 225, 272–3, 353, 553, 562, 563, 611, 612, 613

Balaklava, Battle of 234

Balance of Power, principle of 27

Balearic Islands 8

Balfour, Arthur 281, 408, 579, 581

Balfour, Lady Frances 408

Balkan Mountains 365

Balkan Wars 688–98

Balkans 8, 127, 231, 304, 344, 583; blood feuds in 344; Britain and 713; bubonic plague in 8, 127; Christianity in 671, 673, 678, 689; cotton goods exported to 304; divided between Austria and Russia 677–8; ethnic violence in 715; expansion of nation states in 624; famine in 671; Greek Orthodox Church in 462; imperialism in 697; Islam in 474, 689; nationalism in 583, 673–81; Ottoman Empire and 231; stability of borders after 1870 266; see also Albania; Bulgaria; Bosnia; Bosnia-Herzegovina; Croatia; Kosovo; Macedonia; Romania; Serbia

Balla, Giacomo, Abstract Speed and Sound 533

ballet 535–6

Ballets Russes 535

balloons: dirigible 387; gas and hot-air 386–7; military uses 386–7

ballots, secret 184, 227, 281, 568, 576, 598

Balmoral Castle, Aberdeenshire 363

Baltic Sea 150

Baltic States: agriculture in 100; famine in 128–9; Germans in 631; literati in 275, 276, 610; Moravian Church in 458; nobility and peasantry in 99, 275–8, 288, 353; Russian troops in 212; Russification 278; Union of Welfare and 43

Balzac, Honoré de 186; Les Chouans 522; Colonel Chabert 308; La Condition humaine 522; Les Paysans 167–8; La Peau de chagrin 522

Banat 240, 357

banditry and brigandage 1, 53, 57, 59, 80, 108, 109–11, 356, 358, 439, 440, 649

bankers, banking xx, 31, 230, 241, 284, 287, 296, 298, 304, 318, 319, 320, 327, 353, 675

Bankes, Sir William 628

Baptists 457, 489

baracas 520

Barcelona 223, 377, 564; Els Quatre Gats 517; Ramblas 520

Bari 8

Baroja, Pio 411

barricades 51, 65, 67, 70, 82, 188, 189, 192, 193, 195, 201, 205, 206,-7, 210-12, 214, 218, 220, 223, 268, 271-2, 312

Barry, Charles 453

Barry, Dr James 506

Bartók, Béla 534

Basel 370; missionary societies in 469; patrician elite 318

BASF (Baden Anilin and Soda Factory) 301, 302

bashi-bazouks 673, 688

Basque Country 107, 297, 482

Bassi, Ugo 216

bastinado 435

Bat’a, Tomáš 297–8

Bathurst, Australia 658

Battenberg, Alexander von 317, 678

Batthyáni, Count Lajos 191–2, 205, 207

Batum 677

Baudelaire, Charles 531

Baudrillart, Henri 376

Bauer, Caroline 72

Bauer, Otto, The Nationality Question and Social Democracy 557–8

Bäumer, Gertrud 543

Bauters family 138–9

Bauwens, Liévin 143

Bavaria: abolition of serfdom 88; court of 223; guilds 160; industrial growth 147; influence of 605; liberalism in 76, 183; Mistwagenstellen 343; National Liberals in 260; Patriot Party government 261; Peasant Leagues

570; poverty in 118–19; railways 151; secularization in 462

Bavarian Palatinate 212

Bayer 301, 420

Bayly, Chris, The Birth of the Modern World xvi

Bayreuth 478

Bazaine, Achille 262, 263

Bazalgette, Joseph 310

The Beagle 471

beards and moustaches 501–3, 504

Beardsley, Aubrey 416

bears: bear-baiting 361; in Hungary 355; hunting 359–60; teddy bears 360

Beaumont, Gustave de, On the Penitentiary System in the United States and its Application in France (with Tocqueville) 436

Beaune-la-Rolande, Battle of 264

Bebel, August 478, 554; Woman and Socialism 565

Beccaria, Cesare 434

Bečej (Óbecse) 204

Béchamp, Antoine 301

Becker, Lydia 538, 541

Bedford, Duke of 282

Beethoven, Ludwig van 448, 450, 501; Diabelli Variations 450; Hammerklavier Sonata 449; Ninth Symphony 450, 529; Opus 111 Sonata 450

Begelly, Pembrokeshire 141

beggars 7–8, 117–18, 128

Beijing: Legation Quarter 650; Macartney expedition to 18; siege of 650–51; Summer Palace 640

Beirut 693

Belarus 43, 122, 247, 474

Belfort 32

Belgian Congo see Congo Free State

Belgium: canals 152; and Chinese treaty ports 650; coal and iron production 142, 147; and Congo 662–4; Congolese exhibitions 643; Constitution (1831) 569, 681; Constitution (1893) 569; crop failure 123–4, 125; education 466, 569; franchise 569; Geographical Society 633; German ultimatum to 713; independence and National Congress 71; industrial production 132, 301; invasion by Netherlands 72; and Jews 476; languages in 488, 621; legislation on capital punishment 434; literacy in 481; monarchists 108; mortality in 125; nuns and monks in 468; population 569; population growth 123; potato cultivation 123, 124; poverty relief measures 124; railways 151, 152, 156; reforms in 79; relations between Church and State 466; Revolution 70–73, 81, 82; ‘school war’ 466; standardization of time 391; textile production 136–7; traffic regulation 314; universal male suffrage in 621; urban life 113; and west Africa 644

Belgrade 379, 691, 705, 707

Belinsky, Vissarion 176

The Bell 611

Bell, Alexander Graham 392

Bell, Clive 532

Belleyme, Louis-Marie de 440

Bellini, Vincenzo, Norma 527

Belloc, Hilaire 653, 704

Bely, Andrei 531

Belzoni, Giovanni Battista 626–9, 630

Belzoni, Sarah 626, 627, 629

Bem, Józef (later Murat Pasha) 209

Benckendorff, Count Alexander von 47–8

Benedek, Ludwig von 254–6

Benedetti, Count Vincent 261

Benevento 563

Bengal 400, 666

Benin xvi, 18, 629, 630, 662

Bennett, James Gordon Jr. 632

Bennigsen, Rudolf von 603

Bentham, Jeremy 17, 436

Bentley, Richard, ‘Railway Library’ 515

Benz, Karl 381

Berbers 636

Berchtold, Count Leopold 517

Beresford, William Beresford, 1st Viscount 42

Berg, Alban 534, 535

Berg, Fyodor 247, 248

Bering Strait 641

Berlin: Alexanderplatz 328; Altes Museum 316; average annual income 338; baptisms in 468; building programme 316; central institutions in 603; clergy in 467; Congress of (1878) 677, 678, 683, 688, 692; crime rates 345; demonstrations in 196, 201; food adulteration 333; Free Trade Association 146; funeral of Liebknecht 404; Grand Hôtel de Rome 385; guilds 160, 161; Jews in 477; literacy in 481; missionary societies in 469; ‘mysteries’ of 167; Neue Wache 316; newspapers in 515; population growth 307; Prussian National Monument for the Liberation Wars 316; registered prostitutes 411; Royal Museum (later Altes Museum) 453; S-Bahn 316; Schutzmannschaft 441; Steglitz district 427; street cleaning 309; Technical Institute 146; Tingeltangel 516–17; Treaty of 677, 678, 692; University 33, 175, 176, 177, 325, 424–5, 495, 556; Unter den Linden 603; Wintergarten Theatre 519

Berlin Conference (1884-85) 647, 654

Berliner, Emile 518

Berlioz, Hector 448, 449; The Corsair 449; Harold in Italy 449; Rob Roy 452; Symphonie Fantastique 449; Waverley 452

Bern 335; conferences on railway regulations 379; University 506

Bernadette, St (Bernadette Soubirous) 455

Bernhardi, Friedrich von 686

Bernstein, Eduard 555–6

Berry, Charles Ferdinand, Duc de 31

Bertalia 403

Bessarabia 25, 94, 677; southern 236

Bessemer, Henry 295

Bessemer furnace 295, 300

Bethmann Hollweg, Theobald von 607–8, 609, 686, 700, 706, 708, 711, 711–12

Beuth, Peter 145

Bialystok 135

Biarritz 254, 289

Bibescu, Gheorghe 203

Bible: as bestseller 423; and creation of world 394; depicted in art 522; and Methodism 457; and modern critical methods 464; and Moravian church 453; and science 443, 472; Slavonic text 459, 466

bicycles 383–4; and female emancipation 384; racing 383

Biedermeier period 444–7, 449–50; furniture 447

Bielefeld 711

Bihar, Hungary 587

biplane 388

Bird, Isabella 631–2

Birkbeck, George 485

Birmingham 241, 312; water supply 317

birth rates xiii, 127, 408, 409, 418, 443, 687; illegitimate births 411

bisexuality 417

Bismarck, Otto von 251–3; alliances orchestrated by 698–9; anarchists and 564; and assassination attempts on Kaiser

603–4; and Austria 677; and Balkan Wars 698; on bureaucracy 36; and capital punishment 434; and colonialism 645, 649, 661; and East Africa Company 647; election campaign (1887) 606; as Federal Chancellor of North German Federation 259; foreign policy 713; and Franco-Prussian War 260–61, 263; and Friedrich III 606; on German army 606; and German unification 401, 499, 682; on guilds 159; Indemnity Bill 257; and Jews 477; and Kulturkampf 465–6, 602, 603; measures taken against Catholic Church 465, 602; moustache of 501; and nationalism 229; on politics and statesmanship 251; posts held 605; proclamation of German Empire 265; as Prussian Minister-President and Foreign Minister 252; and Reichstag 259; and report on food adulteration 333; resignation 607, 608, 698–9; and Schleswig-Holstein 253; and shipbuilding in Hamburg 296; and Social Democratic Party 465; and socialism 554, 644; and tariff barriers 285, 603; and territories overseas 646–7; and Triple Alliance 677; and universal male suffrage 601, 607; and Vatican 465; and Virchow 400; welfare measures 551, 552, see also German Confederation

Bismarck Archipelago 649

bitonality 535

Bizet, Georges, Carmen 336, 526

Bjørnson, Bjørnstjerne 508

Black Forest 365

‘Black Hand’ group 693, 696, 705, 706

Black Hundreds 620, 622

Black Sea 150, 179, 231, 236, 285, 317, 396, 482, 671

Blackburn Olympic football club 513

Blackfeet ‘Indians’ 658

Blanc, Louis 200, 201; The Organization of Labour 173

Blanchard, Sophie 386

‘Blanketeers’, March of the 9

Blanning, Tim xiii, xviii; The Pursuit of Glory: Europe 1648–1815 xix, xx

Blanqui, Auguste 32, 69, 272

Blanqui, Jérôme-Adolphe 139, 368

Blatch, Harriet Stanton 538

Der Blaue Reiter (group of artists) 532

Bleichröder, Gerson von 477

Blériot, Louis 388

Bloch, Jan, Modern Weapons and Modern War 702–3

Blohm and Voss shipbuilding yards 296

Blok, Alexander Alexandrovich 531

blood feuds 344–5

blood poisoning 421

Blood River, Battle of (1838) 660

bloodletting 422, 426

Bloomer, Amelia 503

bloomers (divided skirts) 503

Blücher, Leberecht von 12, 14, 629

Blum, Robert 207

Bochum 333

Bode, Wilhelm 76

body lice 399, 400

Boer Wars 607, 660–61, 683, 700

Boers 226, 637, 648

Bogrov, Dmitry Grigoriyevich 619

Bohemia: agriculture 100, 101, 122–3, 358; Diet 546, 584, 585; feminism in 545; and German unification 204; ignorance of Hungary in 355–6; industry 297; landowners in 282; machine-wrecking in 164; nationalism in 180, 204, 545–6; rural life in 526–7, 528; shoe industry 297–8; textile industry 135, 187; and unification of Germany 250; urban life 113; Women’s Suffrage Committee 545, see also Czechs

Bokhara 641

Böklin, Per 445, 446

Bolívar, Simón 13, 16, 59, 169

Bolivia 16, 396

Bologna 100, 112, 243, 563; University of 493

Bombay 666

bombing xix, 618, 688, 692 697

Bonald, Louis de 81

Bonaparte, Louis-Napoleon: see Napoleon III

Bonapartism 12, 30, 32, 66, 69, 230, 322, 594

Bonar Law, Andrew 581

Bonn: Endenich asylum 428; University 430

books: increase in production 523; new markets for 523; popular 515–16

Booth, Charles 341

Bordeaux 171

border controls 402

Borneo 631

Borodin, Alexander, Prince Igor 528

Borodino, Battle of 43, 526

Borsig railway and engineering works 187

Bosnia: Alexander II and 674; bubonic plague in 8–9, 399; Muslims in 224, 474, 678; national identity 62, 224–5; and Ottoman Empire 53, 675, 677; peasant uprising 673; Serbian claims to 704; serfdom in 8; and Treaty of San Stefano 645

Bosnia-Herzegovina 691–2, 696; annexation by Austria-Hungary 692, 693, 705, 709

Bosphorus 235

Boston Tea Party 189

Bothnia, Gulf of 129

Bottomley, Horatio 708

Boulanger, Georges 595, 596, 598, 621, 703

Boulogne 69, 215

Bourbon dynasty 38, 64, 65

Bourbonnais 473

Bourdin, Martial 393

bourgeoisie 307, 318–26; attitudes to sexuality 410; as elite 353–4; and feminism 547; in literature 523–4; as readers of fiction 523; and socialism 553, 555, 560, 562; support of war 714; values of 353–4; see also petty bourgeoisie

Bowdler, Henrietta 410

Bowdler, Thomas (ed.), The Family Shakespeare 410

Box Hill tunnel 154

Boy Scouts 683

Boys’ Own Paper 683

Bradford 559

Brahmaputra, river 630

Brahms, Johannes 274, 289, 502; Concerto for Violin 528–9; First Piano Concerto 530; First Symphony 529; A German Requiem 529

Brandes, Georg 470, 472

Branting, Hjalmar 558

Braque, Georges, Violin and Candlestick 533

Braşov 358

Brass, August, The Mysteries of Berlin 167

Brătianu, Ion 679

Brătianu, Ionel 105, 681

Braun, Otto 711

Brazil 16–17, 42, 73, 129, 179, 267, 351, 436; Army 267

Brazza, Pierre de 633

Bremen 329, 348, 350

Bremer, Carl Fredrik 444

Bremer, Claes 446

Bremer, Fredrika 444–7, 511; and women’s rights 505; The H— Family 445; Hertha 446–7, 505;

Midnight Sun: A Pilgrimage 446; Morning Watches 469–70; The Neighbours: A Story of Everyday Life 446; The President’s Daughters 445

Bremerhaven 651

Brescia 8

Bresco, Gaetano 563

Breslau (Wrocław) 9

Briand, Aristide 599

bribery 227, 230, 508, 568, 589, 602, see also corruption

bridges 229

brigand wars 109–10

brigandage see banditry and brigandage

Bright, John 156

Brighton 191

Brisbane, Sir Thomas 658

Bristol 524; Bishop’s Palace 79

Britain 225–8; abolition of duties 228; Act of Parliament on Catholic Church 456; Act of Parliament on vehicle speed 382; Adulteration of Food Acts (1860 and 1872) 333; agricultural revolution 95, 115; and Albania 697–8; alcohol consumption in 511, 512, 513; Amalgamated Society of Carpenters and Joiners 549; Anatomy Act (1832) 120–21; Anglo-Japanese Alliance 651–2, 699; Anglo-Ottoman Convention (1838) 133; arms firms 299; Army 58, 234, 278, 558, 574, 594, 666; art in 521; Artisans’ Dwelling Act (1875) 574; and Australia 639; and Balkan Wars 713; Bank of England 184; Bar Council 321; beards in 502; and Belgian Revolution 71; birth rates 408, 409; ‘Bloody Code’ 433; Blue Books 184; Board Schools 574; Board of Trade 576; book market in 523; and Brazil 17; bribery in 227, 568; British abroad 489–90; British Association for the Advancement of Science 471–2; British Board of Film Censors 520; British Coal Mines Regulation Acts (1860 and 1872) 550; British Empire 635, 682–4; British Expeditionary Force 702; and Bulgarian revolt 673; and Burma 668; business elite 320; Cabinet 702; canals 150; capital punishment in 415, 433; and Carlist uprisings 108; Catholic Church in 184, 456, 456–7; Catholic Emancipation Act (1829) 476; census (1851) 523; changing attitudes to Germany 687; Charity Organization Society 552; Chartists 225–6; Chief Inspector of Factories and Workshops 335; Church schools 483–4; Cinematograph Act (1909) 520; Civil Service 322, 574; class structure 331, 338; clerks 327; Coal Mines Act (1842) 145; coal production 140–43, 144–5, 147, 299, 300, 301, 550; Coercion Act (1875) 576, 577; Colney Hatch asylum 425; colonies 226, 267–8, 637–9, 652, 656–62; Combination Laws 162; Committee of Public Safety 45; Companies Act (1844) 184; and Congress of Vienna 23, 25; Conservative Central Office 574; Conservative Party 575, 577, 578–82, 682, see also Tories; conspiracy in 45–6; constitution 66, 220; Contagious Diseases Acts 541; Corn Laws 115, 125–6, 185, 227, 579; Corrupt and Illegal Practices Act (1883) 575–6; corruption in 227, 575–6; Cotton Mills and Factories Act (1819) 144; cotton production and export 133–4, 136, 300; in Crimean War 27, 234–7, 392, 682; Criminal Law Amendment Act (1885) 414, 415; cruel sports in 361–2; Cruelty to Animals Act (1835) 361; in Dark Ages 681; death rates 404; declares war on Germany (1914) 713; declares war on Russia (1854) 233; decline in crime related to urbanization 345; democracy in 582, 686; department stores 328, 329; domestic service 325; dominance of world trade and shipping 25; Ecclesiastical Commission 456; economic crisis (1840s) 225–6; education 327, 483, 492–3; Education Act (1870) 574; Education Act (1902) 484; and Egypt 646; elections 184, 227, 575, 577, 579, 680–81; electorate in 30, 185; and electrical industry 302; emigration of artisans 143; emigration from 349, 351; emigration to 347; Empire Day 643, 683; enclosure of common land 511; engineering 323; English Folk-Song Society 533; entente cordiale with France 699–700; Eton College 492; export ban 143; exports and imports 115, 294, 300; Fabian Society 558–9, 559; Factory Act (1833) 144; Factory Act (1844) 145; Factory Commissions 138; Factory Inspectorate 144; female domestic servants in 336; feminism in 537–41, 547; fog 374–5; food adulteration 333; Football Association 513; Foreign Office 700, 716; forests, lack of 365–7; franchise 568, 570, 572, 575, 576, 582; and Franco-Prussian War 260; Fulham Tradesmen’s Association 330; gardens 364; Garibaldi in 243, 245; General Board of Health 309; general elections 184, 575, 577, 579, 580–81; General Medical Council 322; gradualist reform 188, 226, 622; grain riots in 9; and Greece 56–7, 59, 223; and Hanover 252; Hanwell (Middlesex County Asylum) 425, 429; Highways Act (1882) 344; and Holy Alliance 22; Home Office 45; and Home Rule for Ireland 576–8, 581, 621–2; honours bestowed on colonial rulers 687; House of Commons 52, 79, 169, 184, 185, 227, 228, 280, 310, 314, 392, 538, 541, 559, 572, 577, 578, 581; House of Lords 79, 182, 228, 278, 280, 314, 476, 541, 577, 578, 580, 581, 600; house-building and town planning 552; housing 576; hygienic revolution 490; ignorance of Hungary 356; Imperial Preference 579; imperialism 624–5, 638, 682–4, 710; and improved communications 379–80; income tax 184; Independent Labour Party 559; and India 15, 18, 400, 637–9, 641, 661, 665–8; Indian Councils Act (1892) 669; industrial production 132, 187, 219, 292–5, 300–301, 305–6, 306; industrial workers 331; industrialization 686; infant mortality 331–2; inheritance tax 576; invasion of Portugal 107; Irish immigrants in 457; Irish Land Act (1870) 576, 577; Irish Party 581; and Irish Question 576–8, 581, 582; iron production 142; and Italian wars of independence 242; Jews in 475, 476, 480; Jews’ Relief Act (1858) 476; Kossuth in 209; labour exchanges 552; Labour Party 559,

579, 566, 582; Lake District 447; landowners in 280–81, 282, 289; Law Society 321; legal profession in 321; legal system 522; legislature 36–7; Liberal Party (formerly Whigs) 228, 541, 542, 552, 558, 559, 574, 575–82, 668; Liberal Unionists 577, 578, 662; liberalism in 183–5, 572–82; life expectancy 331–2, 404; literacy in 481; local councils 328; Local Education Authorities 484; Local Government Board Act (1871) 574; Mansion House Committee 125–6; Marine Society charity school 331; Married Women’s Property Act (1870) 574; Married Women’s Property Act (1882) 505, 574; match factories 335; Matrimonial Causes Act (1857) 507; Mechanics’ Institutes 423, 485–6; medical profession 322; mental institutions in 425, 429, 431; merchant shipping 296; Midlothian campaign 573, 575; military expansion 638; military organization, reforms in 237; Miners’ National Association 549; minimum wage for coalminers 582; monarchy 558; Municipal Corporations Act (1835) 184; music halls 516, 518; music in 528; Napoleon III in exile in 263; and Napoleonic Wars 3; national census (1851) 466; National Insurance 552; National Liberal Federation 574; national minorities 572; National Society for Women’s Suffrage 541; national speed limit 382; National Union of Conservative Associations 574; National Union of Women’s Suffrage Societies 541; nations perceived as major enemies of 699, 710; naval power 19, 26, 72, 654, 700–701; and Netherlands 72; and New Zealand 639–40, 682; Newcastle Programme 578, 580; newspaper circulation 514; newspapers 514–15; and Nigeria 647; nobility 278–9, 280; Nonconformity in 457–8; Northcote-Trevelyan Report 322; occupation of Cyprus 677; and Opium Wars 640; and Ottoman Empire 57, 58; parishes 120–21; Parliament 120, 219, 267–8, 335, 456, 559; Parliamentary Reform Bill (1867) 228; pensions 552; People’s Budget 580–81; perceived decline of 623; philhellenism in 56–7; and Poland 249; Poor Laws 119–21, 124, 126, 183–4, 552; popular press 514–15; population 21, 352, 409; and Portuguese succession 73; Prisoners (Temporary Discharge for Ill-Health) Act (1913) 539; prostitution in 414; public executions in 432–3; Public Health Act (1872) 574; Public Health Act (1875) 575; Public Health Association 309; Public Libraries Act (1850) 515; public schools 492; and Quadruple Alliance 36; Radicals 572–3, 576, 577; radicals and reform 79–80; Railway Regulation Act (1844) 156; railway station clocks 391; railways 150–56; Realist fiction in 522, 523, 524; and reform 78–80; Reform Act (1832) 30, 79–80, 583; Reform Act (1867) 228, 483, 568, 682; Reform Act (1884) 571, 576, 577; reform synagogue in 476; relations with Germany 700–702; religion in 456–7; Religious Opinions Relief Act (1846) 476; Rivers Pollution Prevention Act (1876) 310; Royal Automobile Club 382; Royal Commission on the Prevention of the Pollution of Rivers 310; Royal Commissions 184, 237; Royal Institution 498; Royal Navy 267, 278, 294, 389, 580, 624, 635–6, 662, 700–701; and Russo-Japanese War 618; Russophobia in 52; Sandhurst military academy 331; and Schleswig-Holstein 199; School Boards 483; Second Land Act (1881) 576; secret ballot 568, 576; secularization in 466; and Serbian crisis 707–8, 710; shipping 293–4, 395; shops and shopkeepers 327–8; Six Acts (on reform) 78; ‘skimmington’ 343, 344; and slavery 266–8; Social Democratic Federation 558, 559; socialism in 558–9; socialist radicalism in 558; Society of Apothecaries 506; Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals 361; Society for Promoting the Employment of Women 541; Society for the Suppression of Vice 456; stability of borders after 1870 266; standardization of time 391, 393; steel production 299; street cleaning 310; strikes 548, 581; supporters of Garibaldi 245; syphilis in 412; and tariff barriers 579; Tariff Reform ‘Whole Hoggers’ 579; taxation 228; tea-drinking in 513; and telegraph system 391; telephone service 392; textile industry in 132–4, 294; tools and machinery 115, 357; Tories 73, 184, 185, 227, 228, see also Conservative Party; ‘Tory Democracy’ 575; trade 293–5, 635; Trade Union (Protection of Funds) Act (1869) 574; trade unions 162–3, 549, 550, 559, 578, 579, 582; Trades Union Congress 549, 559; traffic regulation 314; Treasury 124; typhus in 8; Unionist Free Fooders 579; Unionists 581; United Synagogue 476; universities 305–6, 496, 497–8; urbanization 306, 345; vaccination in 399; view of Germany 488–9; vigilante justice 343; and War of 1812 25; water supply 310; Weights and Measures Act (1824) 376–7; welfare state 552, 582; West Midlands as ‘Black Country’ 374; Whigs 79, 183–4, 185, 226, 227, 228, 456, 499, 572, 573, 574, 576, 577, 578, 660; wife-sales in 509; workhouses 120–21; as world power 698, see also London

British Association for the Advancement of Science 423

British Cremation Society 407

British Guiana 267

British Ladies’ Society for Promoting the Reformation of Female Prisoners 437

British Medical Association 506

British South Africa Company 648

Brittany 11, 482, 514

Brockhaus encyclopedia 161, 165

bronchitis 375

Brontë, Charlotte 293, 451; Jane Eyre 450–51

Brontë, Emily 451; Wuthering Heights 450

Bronté, Sicily 111

Broussais, François-Joseph-Victor 422

Brousse, Paul 560

Brown, Isaac Baker 430

Brown, John (arms firm) 299

Die Brücke (group of artists) 532

Bruckner, Anton, 529

Bruges 124

Brunei 661

Brunel, Isambard Kingdom 294, 311

Brunner Mond company 301

Brunswick 76

Brussels 70, 152, 218, 241; Bon Marché 328; Master Patissiers 329–30; salons 320

Bryansk metallurgical factory 306

Bryant and May factory 335

Bucharest 54, 203, 631; Treaty of (1913) 696

Bucknill, John 431

Buda 148, 191, 192; Castle 208

Budapest: Academy of Fine Arts 316; Academy of Music 316; Andrássy Avenue 316, 329; Austrian army commander in 586; Austrian invasion 205–6, 207–8; building programme 316; factory hours and conditions 334–5, 335; Heroes’ Square 316; Jews in 475, 477, 479; Millennium Memorial Monument 316; Museum of Fine Arts 316; Opera House 316, 329; Palace of Art 316; Párisi department store 329; Parliament Building 453–4; police 442; ‘Red Thursday’ 548; Simon Holzer Fashion House 328; telephone service 392; Transylvanian Magyars in 202; underground railway 315; uniting of Buda and Pest 307; water supply 310, 311; zoo 361

Buddhism 226

Buddle, John 165

Budweis 151

Bugatti, Ettore 381

Bugeaud, Thomas-Robert 636

Buitoni 304

Bukovina 97, 240, 440; Jews in 475

Bulgaria: army 678, 697; in Balkan Wars 693–6; cholera in 401; Christianity in 462; and Congress of Berlin 677; earthquake 370–71; and Eastern Rumelia 678; Exarchate 462; Haiduks in 110; ID requirements 483; import tariffs 285; and IMRO 679; irredentists in 111; Islam in 474; Jews in 476; literary language in 487; logging 367; and Macedonia 688; National Theatre 495; nationalism 462; and Ottoman Empire 53, 317, 462; as Principality, later Kingdom 316–17; revolt (1876) 673, 681; Romanian emigration to 94; Serbian invasion 678; serfdom in 88; state bankruptcy 690; and Treaty of San Stefano 675; Turkish atrocities in 575; university 495

Bulgarians, in Macedonia 688

bullfighting 362–3

Bülow, Bernhard von 608–9, 624, 700

Bunyan, John, The Pilgrim’s Progress 423

Buonarroti, Filippo 75

Burckhardt, Jacob 155

Burdett, Sir Francis 78

bureaucracy 12, 15, 48, 238, 322

Burke, Edmund 81

Burke, Thomas Henry 577

Burke, William, and Hare, William 120–21

Burma 638, 649, 668, 669, 699

Burns, John 558

Burroughs, Edgar Rice, Tarzan of the Apes 632

Burschenschaft movement 33, 34–5, 183

Burton, Sir Richard 630–31, 632; publications 630

businessmen 353, 354

bustles (on skirts) 504

Butler, Josephine 414, 541; Personal Reminiscences of a Great Crusade 414

Butlerov, Alexander Mikhaylovich 497

Byron, George Gordon, Lord 6, 56, 81, 226, 449, 451, 500

Byzantine Empire 482, 488

cabarets 516–17

Cabet, Étienne 174, 188; Voyage to Icaria 172

Cádiz 4

Caen, University of 494

cafés, literary and artistic 517

Cairo, Al Azhar mosque 18

Calabria 110, 369, 439, 482

California 350

Calvinism 458, 459

Cambodia 649

Cambridge 326; Girton College 507; Natural Sciences Tripos 498; opposition to women students 384; Trinity College 513, 558; University of 456, 496, 498, 499, 574, 704

Cambridge Modern History xviixviii

Cambronne, Pierre 13

cameras 519

Cameroon 646, 647, 656, 657, 692

Camorra 442

Campbell-Bannerman, Sir Henry 281, 579, 702

Camphausen, Gottfried 196

Canada 15, 25, 226, 347, 349, 350, 351, 657–8; Scottish settlers in 658

canals 10, 136, 140, 144, 145, 147, 149–50, 229, 323, 370; and decline of malaria 396

Canary Islands 350, 652

Canetti, Elias 482

Cannes 326

Canning, George 16

Canning, Stratford 58, 237, 438

canning industries 351

Cánovas del Castillo, Antonio 563

Canton 640

Cape Colony 648, 657, 658, 659–60, 660–61

Cape of Good Hope 16, 25, 394

Cape St Vincent 73

Cape Town 226

capital punishment 197, 203, 210, 215, 229, 415, 431–5; movement for abolition of 434

capitalism 189, 270, 334, 458, 553, 558, 567, 611, 621, 687; mature 644; organized 303

Caprera 243, 245

Caprivi, Leo von 608, 699

Capuana, Luigi 525

carbonari 39–40, 41, 43, 44, 56, 74, 75, 82, 173, 178, 180, 186, 213, 215, 241, 569

Carcassonne 454

Cardashian, Vahan 439

Cardigan e Lancastre, Adeline, Countess of (née de Horsey) 234

Cardigan, Elizabeth, Countess of 234

Cardigan, James Brudenell, 7th Earl of 234

Cardwell, Edward Cardwell, 1st Viscount 574

Caribbean 15, 635

Carinthia 6

Carl II, Duke of Brunswick 76

Carlist Wars 107–8, 222, 223, 368

Carlo Alberto, regent (later King) of Sardinia 40, 179, 180, 181, 190, 192, 194, 214

Carlo Felice, King of Sardinia 40, 41

Carlos, Infante of Spain 107–8

Carlsbad Decrees 77

Carlyle, Thomas 155; The French Revolution 537; On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History 501

Carmaux mines, France 334

Carnot, Marie-François Sadi 562, 595

Carol I, King of Romania (earlier Prince Karl of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen) 681–3

Caroline Islands 649, 652

Carpathian Mountains 298, 316, 365

Carson, Sir Edward 581

cartels 300, 303, 644

Caruso, Enrico 519

Casement, Roger 664

Caserio, Sante Geronimo 562

Caspian Sea 150

Castellamare 190

Castelldosirus family 280

Castile 119

Castilian (language) 484

Castlereagh, Robert Stewart, Viscount 22, 36

Çatalca, Battle of 695

Catalonia 107, 484; Captain-General of 42

Catania 345

Catherine II (the Great), Empress of Russia 314

Catholic Church: in Albania 695; in Austria 213; in Britain 184, 456, 456–7; in Brussels 70; Chateaubriand and 81; and colonial atrocities 687; courts 15; and cremation 407; criminalization of offences against 31; in Croatia 204; cults, visions and revelations 455–6; declared heretical by Orthodox synod 462; decline in secular power 454–5; in France 11, 29, 66, 216, 231, 245, 541; in Germany 455–6, 465–6, 602; in Hungary 181; in Ireland 223; in Italy 41, 463–4; land confiscated from 29, 37; and poverty 118, 119, 124; reduction of power of 14–15, 454–5; relations with State 271, 463–6; resurgence 462; schools 463; and setting of world times 393; and state control 39; in Switzerland 182; women and 541, see also Orthodox Church

Catholicism, as state religion in France 11, 29, 66

Cato Street conspiracy 45–6, 184

Cattaneo, Carlo 180, 192, 437

cattle farming 654–5

‘Caucasians’ 684

Caucasus 22, 43, 51, 352, 474, 671, 675, 689

Cavaignac, Louis-Eugène 200–201, 215

cavalry, decline of 697, 703

Cavendish, Lord Frederick 577

Cavour, Camillo Benso, Count of 180, 229, 239–40, 241, 242–3, 245, 589, 713

censorship: in Austria 191, 207, 240; in Baltic States 275; in Britain 78; in Europe 229, 411; in France 11, 64, 66, 186; in Germany 77; in Italy 38, 180–81, 215; in Poland 51; of press 31, 35, 515, 591; in Russia 48–9, 225, 238, 610, 620; in Spain 37

Central America 17

Central Asia 22, 352, 528

Ceylon (Sri Lanka) 16, 25, 226, 363, 631; taxation in 226

Cézanne, Paul 532

Chadwick, Edwin 309–11

Chaillu, Paul du, The Country of the Dwarfs 632

Chalakov, Atanas Mihaylov 462

Chamberlain, Houston Stewart, The Foundations of the Nineteenth Century 479, 686

Chamberlain, Joseph 574, 576, 577, 578, 579, 624, 662, 684

Chambers, Robert, Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation 471

Chambord, Henri, Comte de 593–4

Champollion, Jean-François 630

Channel Islands 218

Charcot, Jean-Martin 430

Charenton, asylum 172, 424

charivari 343

Charlemagne, Emperor 14

Charleroi 142

Charles X, King of France (earlier Comte d’Artois) 31, 63–5, 66, 69, 451, 635

Charlotte, Princess 71–2

Charlottenburg Institute 306

Chartists 184–5, 226, 227, 522, 558; national Convention in London 225; uprising 185; wearing of beards 502

Chateaubriand, François-René de 12, 30, 81

Chatsworth House, Derbyshire 282, 292

Chazal, Aline 170, 171

Chazal, André 170

Chekhov, Anton Pavlovich 514; Muzhiki 373

Chelyabinsk 377

chemical industry 300, 301–2; see also individual companies

chemistry 326, 497

Chemnitz 518

Chenery, Thomas 235

Chernyshevsky, Nikolai Gavrilovich, What Is to Be Done? 611, 612, 617

Cheshire 133

Chianti 112

Chicago 624; high-rise buildings 385; international feminist congress 542; World’s Fair (1893) 353, 542, 622

childbirth 419, 420

children: communal upbringing of 171, 174; as economic burden 411; illegitimate 543; labour of 132, 138–9, 144–5, 411; prostitution of 414; women’s rights over 507

Chile 16

China: Boxer Rebellion 650–51, 700; Christians in 650; and European expansionism 650–52; focus on internal affairs 18; Great Wall 630; and Korea 650; and Manchuria 377; mandarinate 322; Napoleon and 13; nationalism in 650–51; opium trade 125; prevention of disease in 398; Przevalsky on 634; Qing Empire xvi, 18, 652; Republic declared 652; and Russian expansionism 640–41, 699; Society of Righteous and Harmonious Fists (Boxers) 650–51; Taiping Rebellion 649; taxation in 651; tea trade 125, 300, 394; trade with 639, 640; and Trans-Siberian Railway 377; treaty ports 650, 651, see also Beijing

Chincha islands 116

Chios: earthquake 370; Ottoman massacre of 55–6, 370

chloroform 418–19

cholera: in Asia 400, 401; deaths from 401, 697; in Denmark 313; in Germany 332, 401–2; in Hamburg 401–2; in Hungary 181; outbreaks throughout Europe xix, 123, 127, 400–402; in Poland 50; in Portugal 73; in Russia 131; at Scutari 235; symptoms 401; in Venice 217

Chomicki, Włodzimierz 513

Chopin, Fryderyk 52, 397, 451

choral societies 510–11

Chotek, Countess Sophie 586, 704–5

Christian VIII, King of Denmark 199

Christian IX, King of Denmark 252

Christianity 22, 55, 81, 83; in Anatolia 689; in Balkans 671, 673, 678, 689; in China 650; Christian prisoners in Ottoman Empire 439; conversion of Jews to 477; in Crete 690; and death 406; decline of 408; in education 493; in India 638, 665; and Jews 478; in Ottoman Empire 237; and poverty 118; scientific challenges to 469–72; see also Catholicism; Church of England; missionaries; Orthodox Church; Protestantism, etc.

Christo, Kota 111

Church of England 456–7, 483; disestablishment movement 576; in Ireland 576

Churchill, Winston 563, 579

Cicero 491

Cincinnati, Ohio 346

cinema xviii, 395, 443, 519–20

Cisleithania 583

Cistercian order 636

citizenship, definition 318; see also suffrage

Civetta (ship) 294

civil service 39, 320, 321–2, 327, 495

civil wars 66–7, 179, 181–2, 209, 346

civilization (as concept) 81

Cixi, Empress Dowager of China 650

Cladel, Léon 167

class, social 331, 338, 525, 554; see also aristocracy; bourgeoisie; petty bourgeoisie; Engels, Friedrich; Marx, Karl; working class

Class, Heinrich 499

Classicism 451, 452, 521, 522

Classics, teaching of 491–2, 494, 496

Clausewitz, Carl von 7, 254

Cleddau, river 141

Clemenceau, Georges 290, 571, 598

Clermont-Ferrand, University of 494

clocks 390–91, 393–6; electric 390; factory 390

Clonlolan, Relief Committee 126–7

Clyde, river 150

co-operative movement 174, 184, 284, 328, 330, 611

coal production 139–47; in Belgium 136, 142; in Britain 140–43, 144–5, 147, 299, 300, 301, 550; in fiction 523; in Germany 295; increase in 368; mining disasters 140–42, 145, 335; piece work in mines 334; private enterprise in 144; in Prussia 145–6; in Spain 334; and strikes 164, 548, 581; and trade unions 163; transportation of coal 149, 151; in Wales 377, see also miners; mining, mines

Cobbett, William 122

cocaine, as anaesthetic 419

Cochin-China 649

Cochrane, Admiral Thomas (later Earl of Dundonald) 16, 17

cocoa production 661

Code Napoléon 15, 29, 34, 38, 73, 362, 504, 542

codes of conduct, professional 324–5

Codrington, Sir Edward 58

Codru-Drăgusanu, Ion 369

Cody, William ‘Buffalo Bill’ 623

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, Kubla Khan 449

Cologne 75, 146, 152, 164–5, 177, 207, 270, 515; Klingelpütz prison 437

Colombia 6, 16

colonialism, colonies 634–62; in Africa xv, 19, 352; in Asia xv, 352; in Australia 19, 352; in Caribbean 15; colonies as goals for emigration 657–8; colonies of occupation 656; colonies of settlement 656, 657, 661; and education 669; in Latin America 352; limitation of process 670; and reform 668; self-government 658; settlement companies 657; voting rights 658, 660, see also individual countries

Combe, George, The Constitution of Man, Considered in Relation to External Objects 423

Combes, Émile 597–8, 599

Comillas, Antonio López, Marquis of 279

commodities, prices 352

communications xv, xviii, 157–8, 189; improved 352, 380, 510, 570, 571, 630; in India 667; mass 266, see also telegraph, telephone

communism xvii, xx, 175, 715; origin of term 172, 174

Communist Party, in Germany 277

Compagnie Internationale des Wagons-Lits 379

Comte, Auguste: Course of Positive Philosophy 173; A General View of Positivism 498–9; Industry 173; Of the Industrial System 173

Conan Doyle, Sir Arthur 346, 625, 664; Sir Nigel 452; The White Company 452

concentration camps xix, 655, 656, 661

Concert of Europe 27, 28, 36, 59, 63, 70, 83, 239, 317, 677

concert halls 528

Congo Free State (later Belgian Congo) 643, 647, 662–4; and Chinese treaty ports 650; import duties 662; population decline after atrocities 664

Congo, river 632, 647

Congress Poland (Grand Duchy of Warsaw; Kingdom of Poland) 14, 22, 25, 49, 97, 135–6, 246, 347, 496, 557; Diet 49, 50–51; guerrilla actions in 247; reform programme of Alexander II 246

Conrad, Joseph: Heart of Darkness 632; The Secret Agent 393, 562

Conrad von Hötzendorf, Franz 705, 708

conspiracy: by Jacobins 45; by secret societies 45, 77; military 231; theories on Jews 347, 597–8

Constable, John 356

Constans, Jean 595

Constant, Benjamin 31

Constantinople (Istanbul): Armenians in 689; banking in 670; and Battle of Çatalca 695; corruption in 53, 62; Ecumenical Patriarchate 461–2; famine in 671; Kossuth in 209; and military reforms 57; Patriarch of 55; Patriarchal Synod 462; Russian army and 59; in Russo-Turkish War 675; Treaty of (1913) 696, see also Istanbul

constitutions, constitutionalism: Austrian 191, 194; British 36–7, 66; in Europe 567; German 33, 196, 210, 211; liberal reforms 82; Polish 43; Sicilian 190; Swiss 26, 60; see also bribery; individual countries

consumption (tuberculosis) 332, 396–8

Contagious Diseases Acts (1864, 1866 and 1869) 413

The Contemporary 611

Continental System 7

contraception 409–10, 416, 543

conversion, of Jews to Christianity 477

convicts, transportation of 435–6, 659 see also exile, Siberia

Cook, Thomas 489

Copenhagen 10, 199, 307, 544; social housing 313; University of 495

Coraïs, Adamantios 488

Corfu 59, 60

Cork 127

corporal punishment 434–5, 492, 493, 574, 613, 620, 632

Corris railway 295

corruption: in Britain 79, 227, 575–6; in China 18; in Europe 91, 321; in France 186, 218, 598; in Germany 602; in Hungary 356; in Italy 589, 590; in Ottoman empire 53, 58, 438, 670, 689; in Russia 48, 238, 325, 442

corsets 504

Corsica 344, 345

Cosenza 369

Cossacks 1, 94, 278, 367, 368

cotton industry 9, 132–4, 174, 661, 663; mechanization of 133–6

Courbet, Gustave 520–21; A Burial at Ornans 520; The Stone-Breakers 520

Courland 278; Orthodox Church in 461 see also Latvia

Courrières mine, France 335

courts: Church 15; public 215, 220, 238; seigneurial 15, 90–91

Cousin, Victor 325; Philosophical Fragments 176

cowpox 398

Cracow 10, 186–7; football club 513; Jagiellonian University 495–6, 497; Zielony Balonik 517

Crapper, Thomas 310

cremation 407–8

Crete 677, 690

crime, criminals 339–46, 424; criminal statistics 345; in fiction 345–6, 522; Haeckel on 684; petty 431; professional 341–2; and punishment 431–42; underworld of 354; urban and rural 342

Crimea 404, 422

Crimean War: Alexander II, Russia and 94, 246, 610, 618, 641; Britain in 27, 234–7, 392, 682; and cholera 401; costs of 670; deaths in 398; defence of Sevastopol 674; Habsburg Empire and 241; lessons of 702; Muslim refugees from 671; photography of 519; and Treaty of Paris 95, 242; use of anaesthetics 419; veterans of 502

criminology 439–40

crinoline 503

Crippen, Dr Hawley 345

Crispi, Francesco 214, 590–91, 593, 624, 645, 652

Croatia: administration 240; Catholic Church in 204; famine 6–7; language 260; national congress 204; nationalism in 246, 487; serfdom in 88, 204, 240; taxation 260

Croats: in Bosnia-Herzegovina 691; in Hungary 201, 202, 209, 583, 586, 587; literacy among 481; troops 204, 206, 207

crops: damage to 5–6; failure of 6–7, 9, 127, 187, 349, 671, see also famine; new imports 122; rotation of 115, see also sharecroppers

Crow ‘Indians’ 658

Crowe, Sir Eyre 710; memorandum to Foreign Office 700

Crown of St Stephen, lands of 201, 222, see also Croatia; Hungary

Cuba 268, 652

Cubism xix, 533, 534

Cuffay, William 226

cultural heritage, preservation of 454

Cunard Company 349

Curaçao 268

Curie, Marie 497

Curie, Pierre 497

Custer, George 242

Custine, Astolphe, Marquis de 489

customs duties 15, 181; see also import tariffs

Custoza, Battle of 194, 205, 217, 221, 591

Custoza, Second Battle of 255, 259

Cutty Sark 293, 394

Cyprus 671, 677

Czartoryski, Adam 49

Czechs xvi, 178, 204, 250, 260, 545, 583-4; deputies in Reichsrat 584, 585–6; Franz Ferdinand and 705; militias 205; nationalist 585; Social Democrats 585 see also Bohemia, Cisleithania

da Fonte, Maria 107

Dabrową Górnicza 144

dacoits 668

Daguerre, Louis 519

Dahomey 665

Daily Express 683

Daily Mail 388, 514–15, 538, 625

Daily Mirror 509

Daily News 514, 708

Daily Telegraph 417, 607, 608

Daimler, Gottlieb 382

Dalhousie, James Brown-Ramsay, 1st Marquess of 637–8

Dalmatia 8, 23, 217

dam building 312, 370

Damascus 636

dancing 511, 518

Danish Women’s Association 507–8

D’Annunzio, Gabriele 418; The Child of Pleasure 416

Dante Alighieri 521

d’Antigny, Blanche 413

Danube, river 6, 87, 150, 206, 208, 396; flooding 369, 370

Danubian Principalities 94, 95, 122, 202–3, 236, 237; Organic Statute 202, see also Moldavia; Romania; Wallachia

Danzig (Gdansk) 10, 25, 319

Darmstädter Bank 303

Darracq motor cars 381

Darwin, Charles 439, 471–2, 555, 684, 685; The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals 500–501; The Origin of Species 471, see also Social Darwinism

Darwin, Erasmus 685

Darwin, John, After Tamerlane xvi

Darwinism, social 684–5

Daucleddau, river 141

Davison, Emily Wilding 539

Davos 277, 365

Davy, Sir Humphry 142, 361

Daytona Beach, North Carolina 387

De Chirico, Giorgio, Gare Montparnasse (The Melancholy of Departure) 395

De Dion-Bouton motor cars 381

de Quincey, Thomas, Confessions of an English Opium Eater 449

Deák, Ferenc 181, 259

death: attitudes to 408; in rural areas 406–7; as theme for art and literature 406

death penalty see capital punishment

death rates: among prison inmates 438; decline in 408, 442–3; in European conflicts 3–4, 27; in France xiii; from cholera 401; from epidemics and harvest failure 9; from smallpox 8; from syphilis 412; from tuberculosis 397–8; from typhoid 399; in hospitals 420, 421; in industrial towns 332; in Spain 403; in Thirty Years War 26; and water supply 311–12

Debrecen 208, 317

Debussy, Claude: 530–31; La Mer 530–31; Prélude à l’après-midi d’un faune 531

Decadent movement 416–17

Decazes, Élie 30–31

Decazes, Jean, Duc 280

Decembrists 43–4, 45, 46, 47, 49–50, 52, 433, 435, 440, 451

deer parks 360

Defoe, Daniel, Robinson Crusoe 423

deforestation and reforestation 367–9; see also forests

degeneracy, as concept 416, 439, 501, 684, 685, 687

del Valle, José Cecilio 17

Delacroix, Eugène: The Death of Sardanapalus 451; Horse Frightened by a Storm 451; Liberty Leading the People 81, 451; The Massacre at Chios 56, 451

Delattre, Laurent 279

Delaunay-Belleville 383

Delcassé, Théophile 699

dementia 408, 427, 470

Demerara 267

Demidov, Anatoly Nikolayevich 118

democracy 380, 567, 569,582; in Britain 582; growth of 621; mass 669; reversal of march towards 715; and universal adult suffrage 567

demographic transition 408

demonstrations, pro- and anti-war 714

Denmark: army 199, 253; Bismarck and 261; Church in 470–71; cinema in 520; co-operatives 349; Danes in Germany 601; Dissenters in 467; education 485; emigration from 349; exports 349; and German Confederation 178; industry 300; ‘Inner Mission’ in 467; Jews in 476; landholdings in 101; language differences in 482; legislature 570; missionary societies in 469; potato blight in 123; railways 151; and Schleswig-Holstein 199, 252–3; secularization in 470; serfdom in 87–8, 88; traffic regulation 314; universal male suffrage 568, 570; universities in 495; in Wars of German Unification 27; weights and measures 376; women’s socialist movement 566; women’s suffrage movement in 547, 566, see also Scandinavia

dentistry 418

department stores 328–9, 330, 352–3; elevators in 386; escalators in 384

Depretis, Agostino 589–90, 593

Derain, André, Charing Cross Bridge 532

Deraismes, Maria 508

Derby, Edward Smith-Stanley, 14th Earl of 228

Derbyshire 133, 142

Deroin, Jeanne 269

dervishes 474

Despans-Cubières, Amédée 186

Devil’s Island, French Guiana, penal colony 218, 242, 436, 596, 597

Devis, Arthur, Death of Nelson 406

Devon 362; County Asylum 431

Devonshire, William Cavendish, 6th Duke of 292

Devonshire, William Cavendish, 7th Duke of 282, 498, 572

Di Rudio, Carlo 241

Diaghilev, Sergei Pavlovich 535

Dickens, Charles 245, 346, 523; death scenes 406, 500; on public hanging 432–3; Bleak House 346, 374, 522; A Christmas Carol 327; David Copperfield 327, 492; Hard Times 522; Nicholas Nickleby 492; The Old Curiosity Shop 375, 500; Oliver Twist 121, 166, 308, 340, 413, 480, 522; Our Mutual Friend 340, 480, 503; The Pickwick Papers 327, 481–2

dictatorship: Bolshevik 621; Garibaldi and 243; in Germany 622; in Italy 217, 590, 595; Napoleon I and 12; Napoleon III and 230, 249; in Poland 247

Diesel, Rudolf, diesel engine 381

Digby, Jane 240

Dimitrijević, Dragutin see Apis, Colonel

diphtheria 399

disease 8–9, 138–9, 396–402; advances in treatment of 418–23; germ theory 402, 421; industrial 335; prevention 404; sexually transmitted 413–14, 417, 439, see also epidemics, and under individual diseases

Disraeli, Benjamin 44–5, 185, 228, 229, 265, 472, 573, 574, 575, 624; and British Empire 682–3; and Bulgarian revolt 673; and Congress of Berlin 683; as Earl of Beaconsfield 575; and Irish Question 576; legislation under 575, 576; and Queen Victoria 644, 683; and Suez Canal 683; Sybil: Or the Two Nations 166

Dissenters 456–7

Divine Right of monarchs 28, 29, 197, 210, 582, 607

divorce 15, 170, 174, 505, 507, 509

Dnieper, river 87, 150, 298

Dobrudja 677, 681, 696

doctors 319, 320, 322–3, 354; unqualified 323, see also medical profession; mental illness; psychiatry

Dodecanese islands 693

domestic appliances, electrical 302

domestic service 335, 336, 337

Domokos 690

Donbass region, Ukraine 288

Donizetti, Gaetano, Lucia di Lammermoor 452

Dorpat 275

Dostoyevsky, Fyodor Mikhailovich 523; Crime and Punishment 346, 397, 512; The Devils 372, 612; The Gambler 289; imprisonment 435

Down, John Langdon, Down’s syndrome 424

Draga, Queen of Serbia 691

Drais, Karl 383

drama, Realist 524–5; see also individual dramatists and plays

Drava, river 204

Dreadnought, HMS 701

Dresden 42, 153, 210, 316, 532; English Football Club 513; Frauenkirche 211; May Uprising (1849) 211

dress: mourning 405; rational 384

Dreyfus, Alfred, Dreyfus Affair 596–7

Driant, Émile 703–4

Droste-Hülshoff, Annette von 447

Drovetti, Bernardino 628

Drumont, Édouard 597

Du Maurier, George, Trilby 480

Dubbelt, Leonid Vasilievich 48

Dublin 126; Kilmainham Jail 577; Phoenix Park 577; Theatre Royal 539

Duchamp, Marcel, Nude Descending a Staircase 395

Ducrot, Auguste-Alexandre 263

duelling 290

Dühring, Eugen 554

Duisburg 306, 313–14

Dukhobortsy 350

Dumas, Alexandre 183, 245; The Count of Monte Cristo 157, 452; Lady of the Camellias 525; Robin Hood 452; The Three Musketeers 452

Dunlop, John Boyd 383

D’Urban, Sir Benjamin 660

durbars 643

Durham, John Lambton, 1st Earl of 657–8

Durham Report 657–8

Duse, Eleonora 416

Düsseldorf 144, 212, 311, 477; public dances in 518

Dutch East Indies 268

Dvořák, Antonin 529; Slavonic Dances 528

Dyaks 631

Dybbøl (Düppel), Battle of 253

dyestuffs 301, 302, 305, 498, see also chemical industry

Dymiki (hole-worshippers) 459

dysentery 128

Eagle locomotive 155

earthquakes 370–71

East Africa Company 647

East Anglia 9, 78

East Asia 22, 624

East India Company 361, 638, 639, 640, 647, 651

East Prussia 99

Eastern Europe xvii

‘Eastern Question’ 670–81

Eastern Rumelia 677, 678

Eberhardt, Isabelle 631

Eça de Queiros, José Maria, The Sin of Father Amaro 524

École Normale Supérieure 493

economy: collapse of 1873 671; development 229, 318, 353, 554; growth of xviii, 53, 305, 548; recovery 644

Ecuador 16

Edinburgh 120–21; artisanal workshops 329; as ‘Auld Reekie’ 374; University 504–5

Edinburgh Review 410

Edison, Thomas 302, 315, 518, 519

Ediswan 302

education: in Austria 466; of bourgeoisie 325; in Britain 305–6, 325, 682; and Church 463, 465, 492; and colonialism 669, 682; and declining crime rates 345; elementary 483, 574; expansion in 327, 490, 571; in France 271, 325, 464; freedom of 197, 494, 496; in Greece 60; higher 320; in Italy 38, 41, 463, 590; Jesuits and 38, 41; mission schools 633; primary 31, 149, 186, 325, 483–5, 491; reform 19, 186, 229; religious 491, 574; in Russia 47; secondary 19, 186, 202, 484, 491–3, 506, 507, 587, 610; secular 15; spread of 411; textbooks 682, 683; training for peasants 115; universal 78; of women 269, 481, 504, 506–7, see also students; universities

educational associations 270

Edward VII, King (earlier Prince of Wales) 363, 413, 580, 643

Edwards, George 45

eggs, collection of 364

Eguia, Francisco de 37

Egypt: ancient 630, 681; Army 631; autonomy 661; colonization 677; cotton imports from Britain 133; and Debt Commission 646; exploration in 626–9; France and 699; Greek emigrants to 351; invasion of 18; living conditions 402; looting of antiquities 626–9; and Ottoman Empire 53, 57, 254; and Suez Canal 645–6, 647; troops 57

Ehrlich, Paul 412

Eichendorff, Joseph von 155

Eiffel, Gustave 313

Einstein, Albert xix, 395–6

Ekaterinoslav 298, 373

Elan valley, north Wales 312

Elba 193

Elbe, river 257, 308, 311, 401

Elberfeld 135, 212; poor relief system 121, 552–3

Elbing 146, 319

Eldey 364

elections 35, 184, 227, 249, 575, 577, 579, 580–81, 589, 601, 604, 606, 680–81

electrical industry xxi, 157, 302–3, 304, 315, 387

electromagnetism 497-8

Elena Pavlovna, Grand Duchess of Russia 235

elephants, shooting 363

elevators 384–6; and loss of sense of community 386

11th Hussars 234

Elgar, Edward, Pomp and Circumstance 528

Elgin, Thomas Bruce, Earl of 629-30

Eliot, Edward Granville, Lord 108

Eliot, George (Mary Ann Evans) 470; Daniel Deronda 480; Middlemarch 422, 524

Elisabeth, Empress of Austria-Hungary (earlier Princess Elisabeth of Bavaria) 241, 563, 583

Elliotson, John 418

Ellis, Henry Havelock, Sexual Inversion 417

Ellis, William 429

Ellwangen, Germany 1, 2

Elmina 637

emancipation: from slavery 537; general human 173; global 353; movements 17; of women xx, 171, 173–4, 268–9, 450, 537, 558, 565, 622, see also feminism; suffrage, women’s

Emerson, Ralph Waldo 446

emigration 127, 212, 242, 346–8, 350–52, 401, 475, 570, 622

Emilia-Romagna 109, 403

emotion, as gendered phenomenon 499–501

Empire line 503

employment: absenteeism 334; casual 334; instability of 334; piece work 334, 338;, see also labour

Ems Telegram 261

encyclopedias 499–500, 523

Enfantin, Prosper 173, 174, 175

Engels, Friedrich 177, 212, 269, 287, 306–7, 552, 553, 554–5; Anti-Dühring 554; The Condition of the Working Class in England 512; The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State 564

engineering xx, 230, 294, 295, 300, 320, 323, 323–4, 324, 370, 485, 494; electrical 300; mechanized 380

English Channel 388; flights across 515; submarine cables 391

Enlightenment 36, 39, 81, 96, 424, 440, 449, 454, 455, 505; reactions to 452, 458

entailment 286

entertainment, popular 510–20

Epidaurus 54

epidemics 8, 50, 73, 123, 125, 127, 130, 131, 181, 217, 235, 313, 396, 399–402, 403, 404, 442, see also cholera; malaria; plague; typhoid; typhus

epilepsy 194, 219, 418, 425, 432

Epping, Essex 509

Epsom Derby 539

equality, human xvi-xx, 15, 95, 197, 268, 281, 567, 664, 682; female 384, 505, 541, 543-4, 546-7, 564-5; of Jews 476, 480, 586; linguistic 546; religious 181, 586; see also inequality

Erfurt Programme 555

Eritrea 652

Ernest August I, King of Hanover (earlier Duke of Cumberland) 182

escalators 384

Esher, Reginald Brett, 2nd Viscount 704

Espartero, Baldomero 223

Esperanto 490

Esquirol, Jean-Étienne Dominique 424–5

Essen 296

Essen, Pyotr Kirillovich 48

Esslingen, factory 338–9

Estates 30, 35–6, 74, 91, 180, 191, 567–8

Esterhazy, Ferdinand 596

Esterházy family 282

Estonia 88, 122, 129, 275–8, 458, 461

Ethiopia see Abyssinia

Etna, Mount 111

eugenics 684–5

Eugénie, Empress of France 262

Eulenburg, Philip, Prince of 415

Europe, emigration from 127, 143, 212, 242, 346–54

European Union xvii

Evangelical Revival 267, 456, 457, 467

evolution, theory of 439, 555 see also Darwin, Charles

The Executioner of Berlin 515

executions, public 431–3 see also capital punishment

exile: of convicts 435–6; political 12, 15, 263, 346–7, 353, 435, 715, see also Siberia, exile in

exploration 626–34, 647; global 632

Extremadura 4

Eynard-Lullin, Anna 20

Fabian Essays 559

Fabian Tracts 558

factories: accidents 335; clocking-on machines 390; in France 186; in Hungary 181; mechanization of 139, 166; in Saxony 220; and water supply 309; women employed in 336; working conditions 137–8, 169, 335

Faguette, Estelle 455

fairs 511

falconry 362

family: breakdown of 339; as centre of bourgeois life 325–6

famine xix, 6–7, 8, 115, 122, 125–8, 164, 348, 399, 400, 403, 636–7, 656, 667

Fanelli, Giuseppe 563–4

Faraday, Michael 302

farce 525

Farini, Luigi 589

farming, farmers: in Britain 78; co-operatives 570; dairy farming 284; discontent among farmers 78, 84; livestock farms 115, 283–4, 654–5; model farms 115; peasant farming 98–9, 117, 283–4; as petty bourgeois 326; and railway network 380; and road travel 149; in Russia 85, 102–3; in USA 348, see also agricultural machinery; agriculture

Fasci, revolt of 111–12

fascism 540, 715

fashion industry 504

Fashoda 649

The Fauna of the Hamburg Water-Supply 308

Fauré, Gabriel 536

Fauvists 532

Fawcett, Millicent Garrett 541, 546

Featherstonhaugh, George 189

Fejérváry, Géza 587

female genital mutilation 430

feminism: and bicycles 384; in Bohemia 545; bourgeois character of 547; in Britain 537–41, 547; campaigns against registration of prostitutes 414; and clothing 503; clubs, associations and publications 268–9; demonstrations in Paris 542; and equality xx; in Finland 546–7; in France 259–60, 508, 541–2; in Germany 508, 542–3, 545; and global movements 353; in Hungary 545; and Jewish women 545; as middle-class movement 508; and nationalism 545–8; in Norway 546; organized 507–9; origin of term 174; and Revolutions of 1848 268; in Russia 543–4; in Scandinavia 546–7, see also suffrage, women’s; women

Fennoman movement 178

Fenton, Roger 519

Ferdinand I, Emperor of Austria 191–2, 194–5, 205, 206, 219, 259

Ferdinand I, Prince (later King) of Bulgaria 360, 495, 607, 678–9, 692, 695, 697

Ferdinando I, King of the Two Sicilies 39–40, 41

Ferdinando Carlo (Ferdinando II, ‘King Bomba’), King of the Two Sicilies 189–90, 193, 214, 243

Ferguson, Niall, Civilization xvi

Fernando VII, King of Spain 37–8, 41–2, 74, 107

Ferrara 369

Ferri, Enrico 439

Ferro, Marc xv

Ferry, Jules 464, 484, 594–5, 599, 624, 644

fertilizer industry 116, 284, 301, 351

feudalism 38, 42, 76, 84, 96, 97, 98, 100, 107, 111, 180, 224, 278, 281, 291, 362, 477, 653; agrarian 291; post-feudal period 285, 286, 290

Feuerbach, Ludwig 177, 210

Feydeau, Georges 525

Ffestiniog railway 294–5

FIAT (Fabbrica Italiana Automobili Torino) 381; Model Zero 382

fiction: Realist 522–4; serial 523; social xx, 166–8, 176, 522 see also Dickens, Dostoyevsky et al.

Fiji 640, 667

Filippovtsy 461

films 519–20, 683

Filosofova, Anna Pavlovna 544

Finland 25, 43, 152, 247; bears in 359; constitution 547; crop failure and famine in 128; feminism in 546–7; Karelian Revival 458–60; nationalism in 178, 487, 528, 546–7; and Russia 546–7; Russification 547; and Sweden 444; Union of Women’s Societies 546–7, see also Scandinavia

Finlay, George 55

Finnish (language) 487, 546

fires 371–4; domestic 374; firefighting 373–4

firing squad, death by 434

First Anglo-Boer War 660

First International see International Working Men’s Association

First World War: anticipation of 703–4; and attitudes to death 408; deaths in 3; and European hegemony xvi; motor vehicles before 382; outbreak of 305, 581; population growth before 307; and tsarist regime 621

Fischer, Eugen 655

Fisher, ‘Jackie’ 701, 703

fishing 304; rights 25, 90, 98

Fisons 284

Flammarion, Camille, The Atmosphere 388–9

Flanders 123, 125, 127, 131–2, 159, 621

Flaubert, Gustave 188; Madame Bovary 524

Fleming, Sir Sandford 393

Fleschi, Giuseppe 67

Fliedner, Theodor 437

flight, mechanized 386–8

Flinders Island 659

flogging 493, 574, 613, 632

flooding 369–70, 671

Florence 213, 221, 323; Sisters of Mercy 275

fog 374–5

folk culture 510–11, 528, 533–4

folk high schools 485

folk remedies 418, 419

Folliot de Crenneville, Count 274–5

Folliot de Crenneville, Hermynia (later Countess von Zur Mühlen) 274–7, 291, 372, 384

Fontane, Theodor: Effi Briest 524; Der Stechlin 291

Fontenoy-sur-Moselle 264

food: adulteration of 333; cost of 333, 345; hygiene 332; loans 131; production 85; theft 345; working-class diet 333

food and drink industries 301, 304, 305; in Britain 301; in Germany 305; in Italy 304; women in 336

football 513

Ford motor company 381-22; Model T motor car 382

forests 297: in Baltic states 288; common 91; destroyed by battle 4; extent throughout Europe 365–8; in Hungary 356; as place of refuge 367; private 10, 85, 91, 102–4, 105; in Prussia 358; in Russia 235; in Scandinavia 348; warfare and 367–8, see also deforestation and reforestation; wood theft

formaldehyde, discovery of 497

Fort Marghera 217

Fouché, Joseph 29, 30

Fourier, Charles 171, 174, 271, 563; The New Industrial and Social World 172

Fourneyron, Benoît 134

foxes 359; fox hunting 289, 362, 571, 600

Fram (ship) 633

France: abolition of slavery 268; absolute monarchy in 30, 32; Academies 521–2, 530; and

action against Serbia 706; and Africa 649; after Napoleon 11–15, 29–33; agriculture in 100, 283, 296, 297, 306; alcohol consumption in 511, 513; Allied occupation of 36, 43; and Alsace-Lorraine 645, 646, 698; anarchists in 561–2; annexation of Algeria 635–6; anti-slavery movement in 267; anticlericalism in 422, 597, 598, 599; antisemitism in 596–7; apparent instability in 588, 593–9; apprenticeships 353; aristocracy 291; arms firms 299; Army 1–2, 3, 11, 13, 231, 323, 597; Army Law (1869) 249; art in 520–22; ban on absinthe 512; Bank of 31; banqueting campaign against Louis-Philippe regime 188; and Belgian Revolution 71, 72; birth rates xiii, 404; Bonapartists 12, 30, 32, 66, 69, 230, 322, 594; Boulangism 595, 596, 598; Bourses du Travail 550; bribery in 230, 598; bureau d’assistance 596; bureaucracy in 598, 603; and Burma 668; business elite 320; cafés chantants 516; canals in 149; capital punishment in 433; Catholic Church in 29, 216, 231, 245, 541; Chamber of Deputies 30, 63–4, 170, 188, 439, 508, 542, 551, 560, 561, 562, 593, 595, 596, 598–9; Chamber of Peers 30, 66; charivari 343; and Chinese treaty ports 650; civil service 322, 598; clash between Church and State 464; clergy 597; clubs and societies 513; coal and iron production 147, 596; colonies 64, 267, 268, 350, 624, 649, 664–5, 699; Combination Law 163; Committee of Public Safety 271; Compagnonnages 161–2, 171; comparative earnings 338; and Congress of Vienna 23; conquest of Portugal 16; Conservative Union 595; Constituent Assembly 200, 269; Constitution 215, 593, 595; contraception 410; corruption in 186, 598; Council of Ministers 260; Council of State 66, 230; in Crimean War 27, 234, 235, 237, 239; criminal classes 340; Criminal Law Code 345; crop failure in 129, 164; cycling in 383; death in 407; death rates xiii, 332, 404; declared republic 200–201; deforestation 368; democracy in 598; dialects 482; Directory 12, 75; disestablishment of Church 464; Dreyfus Affair 596–7, 598; École Nationale des Chartes 494; École Polytechnique 323, 494; École Pratique des Hautes Études 494; economy 18, 305, 570; education in 31, 186, 325, 484, 491–2, 597; 1848 Revolution 188–9; elections 35; elections (1869) 249; electoral law in 66; emigration from 351; emigration to 350; as enemy of Britain 699; engineering 323; entente cordiale with Britain 699–700; Estates General 30; Executive Commission 200–201; Factory Act (1841) 186; feminism in 259–60, 508, 541–2; Feminist Socialist Group 566; fires in 373; First Empire 13; flag of 29; food adulteration 333; Foreign Ministry 188, 200; franchise 593; Free School of Political Sciences (Sciences-Po) 322, 494; French League for Women’s Rights 508; French Workers’ Party 559–60; friendly societies 595; gendarmerie 440; General Confederation of Labour 550; German attitudes to 687; grain riots in 9; and Greece 223; guilds 159; honours scandal 594, 595; hunting rights in 362; Imperial Guard 230; imports 297; and Indochina 639; industrial production 132, 296–7, 300; industrial protest 163–4; industrial workers 331; infant mortality 332, 404; inheritance records 287; International Conference on Time (1912) 393; invasion of Spain 167; iron production 142; and Italian unification 222; Jews in 475, 596–7; July Monarchy 69, 186, 188, 189–90, 201, 230, 322, 594; labour disputes 596; landholdings in 101; law on age of consent 414–15; legal profession in 321; Legion of Honour 29; Legislative Assembly 269; Legitimists 593; Liberal Empire 249; liberalism in 185–6, 249; life expectancy 331–2, 404; literacy in 481; livret 595; Luxemburg Commission 200; lycées 325, 491–2; malaria in 396; marriage rate 127; medical care 595–6; medical profession 322–3; mental institutions in 424, 428; military strength 261, 262; Ministry of Defence 494; Ministry of War 597, 599; minority languages 484; missionary societies in 469; monarchists 464, 593, 598; monarchy 183; and Morocco 649, 692, 699; motor manufacture in 381; motor vehicles in 382; music in 530–31; National Assembly 200–201, 215, 216, 217, 218, 263, 265, 597, 646; National Guard 69, 188, 201, 231, 271; national minorities in 572; nationalism 597; navy 635; newspapers 514; nobility 31, 279; Opportunists 595; Orléanists 66, 69, 217, 230, 594; parliamentary rule 600; passport requirements 483; patriotism in 484; peasants in 117, 570–71, 594, 599, 616; pension scheme 596; phrenology in 423; and Piedmont-Sardinia 239–40; plebiscite 218; poetry in 531; and Poland 249; police force 230–31; population growth 27, 123, 352, 409; Possibilists 560–61; prisons in 438; pro-natalism 409; Progressives 542; prostitution in 412, 414–15; public executions in 433; and Quadruple Alliance 36; and racial theory 685; Radical Party 560, 561, 571, 595, 597–8; railways 152, 153, 154, 156, 186, 230, 599; ralliement 464; reactions to declaration of First World War 714; reforms in 79; religious observance in 468; Republican Government of National Defence 263; Republicans 542, 593–5, 597; Revolution of 1848 200–201; road-building in 148; roads 149, 381; and Romania 681; and Russia 697, 698, 709–10; Salon 521, 530; Salon des Refusés 530; Second Empire 218–19, 241, 279, 322, 513, 593; Second Republic 216, 217, 221; Secret Service 596; Senate 29; serfdom in 88, 100; sergeants de ville 440; smallpox in 398; social reform 595, 598; socialism in 200,

559–63, 597, 598–9, 711; Socialist Workers’ Revolutionary Party 560; Society of Civil Engineers 323; Society for the Improvement of Women’s Lot 508; Solidarism 595; stability of borders after 1870 266; standardization of time 391; strikes 164, 548, 560; superstition in 473; Sûreté 340; tariff barriers 285; telegraph system 157; Terror 13, 46, 82, 185, 201, 221; textile production 134–5, 136, 296; Third Republic 263, 264, 271, 422, 464, 551, 593–9, 605, 644; trade unions 549–50, 561, 566; trading posts 637; transportation of convicts 218, 242, 436, 596, 597; and Tunisia 645; universal male suffrage 568, 600; universities in 493–4; urban life 113; vigilante justice 343; vineyards 296–7; in Wars of Italian Unification 27; weights and measures 376; welfare measures 551–2, 595–6; and west Africa 644; White Terror 10; wine production 116, 296; wolves in 359; women in 268–9; women’s education 507; Women’s Suffrage Society 508; working hours 596; workshops 200, see also Franco-Prussian War; French Revolution; Napoleon I; Napoleon III; Paris, Commune; Paris, July Revolution

La France (airship) 387

Francesco II, King of the Two Sicilies 111, 243

Francesco IV, Duke of Modena 74

Franco-Prussian War 260–65, 271, 398, 421, 494, 495, 593, 685, 698

Franco-Russian alliance 709–10

francs-tireurs 264

Frankfurt am Main: anarchist attack in 564; antisemitic riots in 10; artisan riots in 75; bourgeoisie 319; cemetery 407; as financial centre of Germany 257; German Diet 35; guilds 159; Jews in 477; Parliament (National Assembly) 197, 199, 200, 203, 204, 205, 207, 209–10, 211, 212, 250, 501; Paulskirche 199; self-government 257; under martial law 200; University 495; water-supply system 311

Frankfurt an der Oder 345

Franklin, Benjamin 174

Franz Ferdinand, Archduke of Austria 88, 363–4, 583, 585–6, 704–8, 714

Franz I, Emperor of Austria (Holy Roman Emperor) 7, 44, 180

Franz Joseph I, Emperor of Austria 96, 99, 110, 207, 208, 240–41, 259, 582–3, 584–7; accession to throne 207; amnesty of prisoners 110; and army 254; and assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand 586, 705; and Battle of Sadowa 257; character and personality 582–3; and civil marriage 466; crowned King of Hungary 110, 260; and Dual Monarchy 259; and emancipation of serfs 99, 240–41; and feudalism 96; foreign policy 240–41; and Hungary 586, 587; and Italian wars of independence 242; and Jagiellonian University 496; marriage 241, 583; meets Nicholas II in Warsaw 208; and Metternich 582; and ministers 585; mutton-chop whiskers 503; New Year’s Eve Patent (1851) 240; and reform in Hungary 181; and Reichsrat 246; and Schwarzenberg 240; and Szemere 357; and Taaffe 584; tragedies in life 583; visit to Szeged 369

Frauen-Zeitung 268

Frederik, Prince of the Netherlands 70

Frederik VII, King of Denmark 199, 252

free association 417

free trade 146, 226, 579, 657

freedom: of education 197, 494, 496; of individual 15; of inheritance 281; of labour 281, 338; of movement 96, 101, 281; of opportunity 15; of press 31, 77, 78, 79, 186, 190, 567, 686; of religion 15, 29, 181, 197, 458, 461, 476–7, 569, 678; of trade and enterprise 601; of women 451; of worship 15

Freemasonry 37, 42, 43, 44, 49, 77, 82, 162, 461, 508, 597; Masonic lodges 17, 32, 38

Freire de Andrade, Gomes 42

French Congo 664, 692

French (language) 73, 290, 488; as common European language 483

French Revolution (1789-94): abolition of guilds 159; aftermath and influence xx, 17, 31, 37, 44–5, 56, 59, 62–3, 66, 74, 77, 82–4, 98, 100, 175, 189, 219, 354, 440, 698; and British economy 132; Burke on 81; Church and 455; civilizing mission of 665; and Code Napoléon 15; and compensation to Allies 36; and cult of Napoleon 13; and European superiority 19; Guizot on 32; and increase in wolf numbers 359; and Jacobinism 162; Jacobins and 46, 213; and Jews 476; Metternich and 69–70; peasant revolts and 168, 221; renumbering of years 394; and Saint-Simon 172; and serfdom 88; and sovereignty 28, 29; Thiers on 31; trade and industry following 7; warfare following 3, 26; and weights and measures 376

Fresne-sur-Apance, Haute-Marne 373

Fretterans, Bresse 373

Freud, Sigmund 417–18, 517

Freycinet, Charles de 599

Fribourg 182

Friedrich, Caspar David, Wanderer above a Sea of Fog 449–50

Friedrich II, King of Prussia 59

Friedrich III, German Emperor (earlier Crown Prince of Prussia) 255, 606

Friedrich Augustus II, King of Saxony 96, 190–91, 210

Friedrich Wilhelm III, King of Prussia 33, 237, 453; and merger of churches in Prussia 458

Friedrich Wilhelm IV, King of Prussia 145, 166, 177, 182–3, 195–6, 210, 219, 250, 251, 437, 455

friendly societies 160, 161, 162, 184, 595

Fritsch, Theodor 478

frock coats 503

Froeschwiller, Battle of 262

Frost, John 185

Fry, Elizabeth 437

Fry, Roger 532

Fucine Lake 369

Fulbe people 657

Fuller, Margaret 215

funerals 404–5, 407

fur trade 641

Furiant dance 528

furniture 447

Futurism 533

Gabon 632

Gaelic 482

Gagern, Heinrich von 183, 196, 211

Gaj, Ljudevit 487

Galapagos Islands 471

Galicia (Eastern Europe): Jews in 475; nationalist uprising 186–7, 497;

oil production 298; Poles in 584; and potato cultivation 123; Ruthenian Council in 203; serfdom in 203, 240

Galicia (Spain): emigration from 350; slate roofing in 294

Gall, Franz 423

Galle, Joseph 388

Galliffet, Gaston 561

Gallipoli 695

Galton, Francis 439, 684–5

Gambetta, Léon 263, 594, 595, 597

gambling 289–90

game birds, shooting 363

Ganz Works, Budapest 302

Gapon, Father Georgiy Apollonovich 468, 618

García, Manuel 422

Garden Pit, Pembrokeshire 141

gardens 364

Garibaldi, Anita 216

Garibaldi, Giuseppe 17, 111, 179, 216, 221, 243–4, 249, 255, 292, 590; Bakunin and 272; in Franco-Prussian War 264; popular biographies of 515

garment industry 477, 522

Garrigue, Charlotte 546

Gartenlaube, Die 515

gas lighting 314–15

Gaskell, Elizabeth, Mary Barton 522

Gastein Convention (1865) 253

Gateshead 309

Gauguin, Clovis 171

Gauguin, Paul 171, 428, 532; Spirit of the Dead Watching 532

Gaussen, François 459

Gautier, Théophile 489

Gelsenkirchen 144

Genčić, Djordje 691

gendarmerie 440

gender stereotyping 468–9, 499–501

General Electric Company 332

Geneva 60; Victoria Hall 528

Genoa 25, 38, 41, 56, 179, 214, 243, 303

genocide 480, 697, 715

gentlemen’s clubs 501

Gentz, Friedrich 81

geometry 497

geopolitics xv

George I, King of Greece 690

George III, King of Great Britain 25, 45, 76

George IV, King of Great Britain (earlier Prince Regent) 22, 71, 316, 629

George V, King of Great Britain 502, 537, 580, 581

Georgia 43

Gera 328

Gérard, Étienne 66

Gerhardt, Charles 301

Gerlach, Leopold von 195, 196

German Confederation 23–4, 33, 35, 72, 75, 159, 182, 195, 251; abolition 259; and Austria 33, 250; Austrian and Prussian domination of 33; Bismarck and 159, 251, 253, 477; Catholic Church in 182; constitution 35, 195, 210, 211; and Denmark 178; Diet 33; elections 35; emigration from 348; Federal Diet 77, 199; foundation of 23–5; Frankfurt National Assembly see Frankfurt; and German unification 250; and Habsburg Empire 178, 222; and invasion of Luxembourg 72; machine-breaking in 164; Metternich and 182; Provisional Central Power 197; and Prussia 25, 28, 33, 250, 251; and Schleswig-Holstein 199

German Customs Union 145–6

German East Africa 646, 648, 656, 657

German Empire see Germany, as German Empire

German (language) 488, 490, 494

German South-West Africa (Namibia) xix, 654–6, 657, 661, 687

Germans, in Hungary 587

Germany: abolition of guilds 159; abortions in 410; administration in 15; and Africa 654–7; after Bismarck 699–702; agricultural machinery in 283; agriculture in 306; alcohol consumption in 513; and Alsace-Lorraine 645, 646, 698; anarchism in 564; Anti-Socialist Law 606, 607; antisemitism in 330, 478–9, 499, 554, 570; apprenticeships 353; army 441, 702; art in 527; Association of Civil Engineers 323; average annual income 338; and Balkan Wars 688; banking 601, 688; Basic Rights of the German People 210; beards and moustaches in 502; Bildungsbürgertum 610; birth rates 408, 409, 687; ‘blank cheque’ meeting on action against Serbia 706, 713; and Boer War 319; bourgeoisie 319; and Boxer Rebellion 700; bribery in 602; Bülow Bloc 608–9; bureaucracy 603; burial of dead 407; business elite 320; and Carlist uprisings 108; Catholic Centre Party 466, 601–2, 604, 606, 608; Catholic Church in 455–6, 465–6, 602; Central Association of German Traders and Businessmen 330; changing attitudes to France 687; changing British attitudes to 687; chemical industry 301–2, 305; and China 651; and Chinese treaty ports 650; Christian Social Party 478; Civil Law Code (1900) 505, 508; co-operatives and banks 284, 570; coal and iron production in 295–6, 297, 303; Colonial Union 609; ‘colonial wares’ 353; colonies xix, 624, 652, 654–7, 662; ‘colportage’ novel 515; Communist Party in 277; Conservative Party 601, 604, 606, 703; considered backward 488–9; Constitution 603; contraception in 409; corporal punishment 435; corruption 602; Criminal Law Code 416, 417, 601; criminal statistics 345; currency 601; Danes in 601; death rates 332, 404; department stores 328; Eberbach asylum 426; economy 603; education 325, 484; elections 601, 604; electoral reform 602; electrical industry 302, 305; emigration from 127, 347–8; emigration to 350; employment of women 336, 337; as enemy of Britain 699; engineering in 688; fall of empire 715; Federal Council 603, 605; as federal state 600; Federation of German Women’s Associations 542, 543; female domestic servants in 336, 337; feminism in 508, 542–3, 545; food adulteration 333; Foreign Office 603, 607, 608; franchise extension 644; freedom of trade and enterprise 601; gas consumption 314; General German Women’s Association 508; General German Workers’ Association 270, 508; German Central Association for Trade and Business 330; German Doctors’ Society 323; as German Empire 265, 352, 476, 479, 505, 568, 583, 601, 609, 682; German National Commercial Employees’ Association 330; German Union for Women’s Suffrage 542; grain exports 285, 644; grain riots in 9; Gymnasium 325, 491; Haberfeldtreiben 343, 344; high-seas fleet 607, 608, 609; homosexuality in 415; Imperial Naval Office 700; import duties

644; industrial workers 331, 348; industrialization 604–5; ‘Inner Mission’ 467; iron production 142; Jews in 475, 476, 477, 545, 622; Kulturkampf 465–6, 603, 604; landholdings in 101; as leading industrial nation 296, 301–3, 305–6; League for the Prevention of Women’s Emancipation 545; legislation 603; Liberals 555; livestock farming 283–4; looting from Pacific islands 630; March Demands 190; May Laws 465; medical profession 323; medical students 323; mental institutions in 425–6, 428; military planning 708–9, 711; monarchy 600, 601, 605; and Morocco 692; music in 528–30; National Debt Administration 603; National Liberals 601, 603, 604, 605, 606, 646, 647; national minorities in 601; nationalism in 180, 199, 201, 222, 499, 621, 622; Nationalverein 249; naval power 700–701; Navy Laws 700–701; Navy League 609, 621; Nazi regime 277; Nuremberg Laws 656; opera in 527; Pan-German League 609; paper industry 303, 304, 305; pocket watch ownership 390; and Poland 52; Poles in 601; police 556–7; poor relief 121; popular press 515; population 409; population growth 123, 352; and pornography 410; post-Napoleonic politics 33–6; proclamation of German Empire 265; professoriate 326; Progressives 601, 604; protectorates 646; public executions in 432; railways 152, 155, 156, 187, 295; Reich ministries 603; Reich Postal Service 380; Reich Supreme Court 603; Reichstag 281, 336, 466, 508, 517, 542, 555, 557, 601, 606–8, 646, 698, 711; relations between Church and state 465–6; relations with Britain 699–702; and Romania 681; Ruhr district 295; sausage consumption in 284; secret ballot 602; secularization in 466; shipping 296, 395; shops and shopkeepers 329; slate exports to 295; social clubs 319; Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) 325, 404, 415, 465, 478, 515, 554–7, 560, 561, 565–6, 601, 604–6, 617, 622, 624, 644, 655, 703, 711, 714 (Women’s Bureau 566); social protest in 164–5; socialism in 554, 565, 567; socialist women’s movement in 565–6; Socialist Workers’ Party of Germany 554; Society for the Eastern Marches 609; stability of borders after 1870 266; standardization of time 391; steel production 143–4, 295, 303, 305; students 187; superstition in 472; and tariff barriers 146, 285, 603, 604, 608; taxation 285, 603; textile production 134; Third Reich 655; Tingeltangel 516–17; trade unions in 549; traffic regulation 314; tramways 305; transportation of convicts 436; and Triple Alliance 698; troops 12; Überbrettl cabaret 517; ultimatum to Belgium 713; unification 27, 33, 178, 197, 204, 209, 210, 249–51, 261, 265–6, 477, 499, 527; universal male suffrage 568, 604, 609; universities 302, 321, 325, 494–5, 496, 496–7, 497; urban life 113; urbanization 305; vigilante justice 343; vocabulary differences in 482; weights and measures 376, 601; welfare measures 551; women studying abroad 506; women working in commerce 330; women’s education 507; women’s rights 566; women’s suffrage movement in 566; see also Franco-Prussian War; German Confederation; Prussia; individual states

Gerona 160

Gerstl, Richard 534

Ghent 143; coal and iron production 142; cotton mills 136–9, 334; grocery stores 329;

Gibbon, Edward, Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire 254

Gil y Zárate, Antonio 322

Giolitti, Giovanni 591–3

Girard, Philippe de 134

Gislikon, Battle of 182

Giza, pyramids 627

Gladstone, William Ewart: and Armenian massacres 689; and Bulgarian revolt 673; charisma 251, 573; on decline in crime 345; and Disraeli 228, 573, 575; and enfranchisement of women 541; and Fernando Carlo of Sicily 243; financial policies 228; Home Rule Bill (1886) 577; and Irish Question 576–8; legislation under 575–8; and Liberal Party 572, 574; recording of voice 518

Glaisher, James 386

Glarus, Adler Hotel 372

Glasgow 8, 174, 225, 307, 421, 485; cable railway 315; University 498

glassblowers 338

Die Gleichheit 565

Glinka, Mikhail Ivanovich 502

global history xv–xvi

globalization xv, 352–3

Glücklich, Vilma 545

Gobineau, Arthur de 685–6; Essay on the Inequality of the Human Races 685

Gobineau Society 686

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von 452, 453

Gogol, Nikolai Vasilievich, The Government Inspector 48, 321

Göhre, Paul 518

Golden Horn 675

Goldman, Emma 564

Goncourt, Edmond de 271

Goodyear tyre company 409

Gorchakov, Prince Mikhail Dmitrievich 94

Gordon, Charles George (Gordon of Khartoum) 631, 646

Görgei, Artúr 209

Gorky, Maxim (Alexei Maximovich Peshkov) 326; The Lower Depths 523

Gorove, István 356–7

Görz 65

Göttingen 76, 325; bourgeoisie 319; University 182, 430, 431–2

Gournou tunnels, Luxor 627–8

Goya, Francisco de, The Disasters of War 4

gradualism 181, 188, 226

Grahame, Kenneth, The Wind in the Willows 382

Grahovac, Battle of 692

grain: duties 112, 285, 297; export of 123, 130; import of 116–17, 123, 125, 126; prices 132, 282, 284–5; production 284–5; riots 9–10, 64, 107; shortages 122, 123

gramophone 518–19

Granada, conquest of 34

Grand Albert and Petit Albert 473

Grand General Union of Cotton Spinners 163

The Grand Illusion (film by Jean Renoir) 290

Grand National Consolidated Trade Union 163

Grand Tour 489

Grant, Arthur, and Temperley, Harold, Europe in the Nineteenth Century xvi, xviixviii

Gravelotte, Battle of 262

Gravesend 248

great auk, extinction of 364

Great Britain (steamship), SS 294

Great Eastern (steamship), SS 391

Great Fear (France, 1789) 9

‘The Great Game’ 641, 677, 699

Great Handel Festival 453

Great Sandy Desert, Australia 630

Great Trek 660

Great Western railway line 154

Great Western (steamship), SS 294

Greco-Turkish War (1897) (Black 97 or Unfortunate War) 690

Greece: in Balkan Wars 693–6; ‘Bavarocracy’ in 223; beards and moustaches in 502; capital punishment in 434; constitution 223, 462; death in 406; educational reform in 60; emigration from 351; independence 52, 53–61, 62, 488; and Jews 476; Kapodistrian University 495; Mani peninsula 344, 345; military coup (1909) 690; monasteries 461–2; Muslims in 474; National Assembly 54, 60; national insolvency 690; nationalism in 54, 61, 82; navy 61; Orthodox Church in 54, 461–2; Othonian University 495; passport requirements 483; railways 152; secularization in 461–2; universal male suffrage 568; universities 495; uprising of 1843 83, 223; War of Independence 167, 201, 223, 451

Greek, Ancient (language) 482, 491, 496

Green, Charles 386

Greenland 633

Greenwich Mean Time 390–91

Greenwich Meridian 393

Greg, William Rathbone 394

Gregory XVI, Pope 151–2, 180

Greifswald, University 33

Grévy, Jules 595

Grey, Charles Grey, 2nd Earl 79

Grey, Sir Edward 580, 700, 702, 707–8, 713, 716

Grieg, Edvard, ‘In the Hall of the Mountain King’ 528

Griesinger, Wilhelm 424–5

Grimm, Jacob and Wilhelm 182, 367

Grochowiska, Battle of 248

Groener, Wilhelm 709

Grossmith, George and Weedon, The Diary of a Nobody 327

ground-nut production 661

Grünanger, Friedrich 317

Grundtvig, Nikolaj Frederi Severin 485

Guadeloupe 267

Guam 652

Guangxu Emperor of China 650

guano 116

Guardamar 370

Guatemala 17

Güell i Bacigalupi, Eusebi 279

Güell López, Juan Antoni 279

guerrilla warfare 37, 61–2, 107, 221, 243, 247–8, 661, 668

Guesde, Jules, Guesdists 559–60, 561

guilds 15, 158–62, 165, 220

guillotine 432, 434

Guinea 652

Guipel 514

Guizot, François 32, 66, 66–7, 185–6, 188, 213, 325, 484

Gulf Stream 403

Guyana 396

Gwato 629

Gypsies (Sinti and Roma) 88–9

Haakon VII, King of Norway 546

Haberfeldtreiben 343, 344

Habsburg Empire: Academic Legion 194, 195, 207; agriculture in 100–101; aristocracy 108; army officers 280; bureaucracy 319; civil service 44; constitution 246; constitutional assembly 191, 194; and Czech nationalists 205–6; and Danubian Principalities 203; as Dual Monarchy 259–60; extent of 25; foreign policy 21; Freemasons and 44; and French Revolution 191; Gendarmerie 440; and German Confederation 178, 222, 250; German and Slav provinces 98; and German unification 204, 210; industrial production 132; job-creation schemes 194; legislative assemblies 622; and Lombardy 7, 39; Metternich and 21; Military Frontier 9, 399; military strength 217; National Guard 194, 195, 205, 207; and nationalist movements 180, 191–5, 201, 201–2; and Poland 178; public-works scheme 205; relationship with Hungary 356–7; road-building in 148; and Russia 239; serfdom in 90, 97; Taaffe and 584; taxation in 194, 357, see also Austria; Austria-Hungary; Hungary; Bohemia; Galicia

Haeckel, Ernst, The Riddle of the Universe 684

Hagenbeck, Carl and Willy 359

Hagman, Lucina 546

The Hague: international agreements on cultural possessions (1899, 1907) 454; peace conferences (1899 and 1907) 687

Haiduks 110

Haiti 19; Revolution 267

Hall, John 419

Hallam, Arthur 406

Hambach Castle, Palatinate, festival 77

Hamburg: average annual income 338; cholera epidemic 401–2, 403; city walls 314; city-state of 605; clergy in 467; crime in 341–2; death rates 312, 332, 403; domestic servants in 337; female domestic servants in 337; feminism in 542; fire of 1842 154–5, 311; fire brigade 373; Goosemarket 371; Great Fire 371, 373; horses stabled in 309; intermarriages 477; Jews in 476; milk supply 332; and National Liberal Party 646; Night Watch 440; pollution 374; population growth 307–8; as port 348, 350; port facilities 296; prostitution in 414; ‘Red Wednesday’ 548; retailers 330; Sewage Law 311; Social Democrats in 714; water supply 308, 311, 312, 401

Hamburg Stock Exchange Journal 341

Handel, George Friedrich 454; Messiah 453

hangings, public 432–3

Hanover 476

Hanover, Kingdom of 25, 76, 88, 96, 182, 211, 252, 257, 436, 602

Hanseatic League 14

Hanslick, Eduard 529

hansom cabs 314

happiness, pursuit of 510

Harcourt, Sir William 345

Harden, Maximilian 415

Hardie, James Keir 559

Harding, Arthur 341

hardwood production 661

Hardy, Thomas, The Mayor of Casterbridge 343, 509

Harmand, Jean, Domination and Colonization 665

Harmsworth, Alfred 625

Harrison, Frederic 394

Harrison, James 332

Harrow School, London 704

Hartington, Spencer Cavendish, Marquess of (later 8th Duke of Devonshire) 572

Harz Mountains 365

Hassell, Arthur Hill 333

hats: men’s 503; women’s 504

Hauge, Hans Nielsen 458

Hauptmann, Gerhart, The Weavers 525

Haussmann, Georges-Eugène 312–13; Mémoires 312

Hausstein rock 370

Haute-Marne 376

Hawaii 350, 640

Haxthausen, Baron August von 87

Haynau, Julius von 208–9

health, public 396–402

health insurance 551

Heck, Ludwig 360

Hecker, Friedrich 196

Hedin, Sven 279, 630, 634

Hegel, Georg Friedrich Wilhelm 175–6, 453, 555

Hegelianism 175–7, 270, 446

Heidelberg 10, 191; University 430

height differences: class-related 331; malnutrition and 403

Heilmann, Josué 134

Heine, Heinrich 34, 77, 165, 449, 453

Heligoland 648

Helmholtz, Hermann von 422

Henckel von Donnersmarck, Prince Guido 288

Henikstein, Alfred von 254

Henry, Émile 562

Henry, Hubert-Joseph 597

Henson, William 502

Henty, George Alfred 683

‘Hep-Hep’ movement 10, 46

hereditary principle 19–20

heredity, and criminality 439–40

Herero tribe 655–6

hero, cult of 501, 515, 562, 634; Romantic 450; see also Garibaldi, Giuseppe; Napoleon I, Emperor

Hervé, Gustave 561

Herzegovina 224, 675, 677

Herzen, Alexander 48, 218, 272, 489, 611, 616; Who is to Blame? 176

Herzl, Theodor, The Jewish State 478

Hesse-Darmstadt 199

Hesse-Kassel 76, 96

Hesse-Nassau 190, 426

Hetzenhausen, Bavaria 375

Heymann, Lida Gustava 542, 543, 545

Highton, Edward 391

Hill, Octavia 552

Hill, Rowland 380

Himalayas 630

Hinckeldey, Karl von 441

Hinduism 638; in India 665

Hintze, Otto 499

Hipp, Matthias 390

Hirsch, Baron Maurice de 475

history, as science 499

Hitler, Adolf 479, 517

Hobart, Tasmania 659

Hobrecht, James 310

Hobsbawm, Eric xv; The Age of Capital xvi; The Age of Empire xvi; The Age of Revolution xvi, xviii

Hobson, John A. 641, 643, 687

Hödel, Max 603–4, 606

Hodgetts, Brayley 130

Hoe Company 514

Hoechst 302, 412

Hoffmann, Erich 412

Hohenlohe-Öhringen, Prince Christian Kraft zu, Duke of Ujest 288

Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst, Prince Chlodwig zu 608

Holland see Netherlands

Hollywood 520

Holst, Gustav, Mars, the Bringer of War 536

Holstein, Duchy of 199, 253

Holstein, Friedrich von 607

Holy Alliance 22–3, 36, 38, 40, 45, 49, 54, 57, 69, 72, 78, 83, 178, 208, 239, 459

Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation 14, 15, 23, 77

Holyhead 390

homicide 431, 433, 441, 512

homosexuality: criminalization of 415, 416, 417; distinction between male and female 415–16; Otto Weininger and 501

Hong Kong 640

horse-racing 181, 539

horses: drawing trams 315; Eurasian wild 364; in streets 309; theft of 343

hospitals: changes in role and reputation 420–22; death rates in 420; disinfectants in 420; field 392; foundling 403; specialist 422

hotels, elevators in 385, 386

Howitt, Mary 511

Howitt, William 511

Hudson, George 153

Hudson’s Bay Company 641

Hughes, John 288

Hughes, Thomas, Tom Brown’s Schooldays 493

Hugo, Victor 81, 218, 272, 386, 387; on Classical education 492; funeral 404; Les Misérables 13–14, 218, 313, 413, 437, 522–3; Notre-Dame de Paris 452

Hülsen-Haeseler, Count Dietrich von 607

human rights, deprivation of 399

Humboldt, Alexander von 17, 116

Humboldt, Wilhelm von 33, 461, 494–5

Hung Hóa 639

Hungary 6, 7, 88, 94, 96, 100, 148, 217, 586–8; 587, education 586; agricultural depression 117; agriculture in 100; aristocratic landowners in 287; army 208; bandits in 356, 358; bourgeoisie 319; constitution 191–2, 586; and Czechs 205; Danube Steamship Company 150; deaths from starvation 7; Diet 181, 191, 192; Diet (1843-4) 202; Diet (1865) 246, 259; education 586, 597; elections 587–8; electric lighting 315; emigration from and return to 348; Farm Servants Act (1907) 101–2; feminism in 545; Feminists’ Association 545; flooding 369; foreign ignorance of 355–6; Franz Ferdinand and 705; and Garibaldi’s Thousand 243; and Habsburg rule 356–7; Hungarian Derby 181; Independence Party 587; industrial companies 287, 300; industrialization 357; industry in 586; invasion by Russia 233; Jews in 319, 477, 545, 586; judicial system 586; landed estates in 282, 586; legislative assembly 622; Liberal Party 586, 587; liberalism in 181, 221; Life-Guards 587; minorities in 201–2, 208; Muslims in 224; national consciousness 178; National Defence Committee 207–8; nationalism in 180, 246, 545, 586, 587–8; Nationalist Coalition 587; and New Year’s Eve Patent 240; nobility 278; Parliament 206; police 442; population growth 307; potato cultivation 122; Protestantism in 459; railways 181, 587; revolution of 1848 207–9, 213, 586; road system 148; royal regalia 357; Russian invasion of 233; serfdom in 88, 94, 96, 240; siege of Budapest 208; and siege of Venice 217; socialism in 587; strikes 548, 587; taxation 586; universities 545; uprisings in 110, 202; Vice-Regal Council 192; vigilante justice 343; and volcanic eruption 6; welfare measures 551; wild animals in 355–6, 358; wine 356, 357, see also Budapest; Magyar (language)

Hunt, William Holman 521

Hunter Valley, Australia 658

hunting 86, 90, 98, 124, 358–9, 362, 363–4; of bears 359–60; of foxes 362; of fur-bearing animals 641; as mark of status 363; rights 362

Huskar Colliery, near Barnsley 145

Huskisson, William 155

Hussein, Dey of Algiers 635–6

Huxley, Thomas 471–2

Huysmans, Joris-Karl, Against Nature 531–2

Hydra 61

hydroelectrical power 303–5

hygiene 332–3, 354, 403, 407, 490; and disease 399–400, 402, 404

Hyndman, Henry 558, 559

hypnosis 417, 418

hysteria: mass 457; and mesmerism 418; in women 430, 448–9, 509

Ibell, Karl von 34

ibex, Portuguese 364

Ibsen, Henrik 502–3, 524–5; A Doll’s House 524; Ghosts 417; The Master Builder 524–5; Peer Gynt 528

icehouses 332

Iceland 88, 317, 349, 364, 371, 403, 631; death rates, life expectancy and infant mortality 403; population 403

Iliodor (Sergei Mikhailovich Trufanov) 461

illegitimacy 170, 230, 408, 411, 492, 543, 559, 600, 631

Illustrated London News 501

Immaculate Conception, doctrine of 455, 462

Imperator (ocean liner class) 395

Imperial Tobacco Company 300

imperialism: age of 641–54; in Balkans 697; Britain and 624–5, 638, 682–4, 710; European 624; justifications for 682; Liebknecht on 557; as term 635; worldwide empire xv

import tariffs 112, 116, 135, 147, 185, 240, 285, 579, 603, 604, 608

Impressionism, in music 530–31

Impressionists 375, 530–31; beards worn by 502

IMRO see Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization

India: Army 666–7; Britain and 15, 18, 400, 637–9, 641, 661, 665–8; British exports to 133; British Raj 639, 641, 665–8; Civil Service 665–6; colonial administration 658; communications 667; education 666, 667; Edward VII’s hunting trips to 363; France and 15; labour in 667; living conditions 402; malaria in 396; Mughal Empire xvi, 639, 665, 667, 669; ‘Mutiny’ 665, 682; nationalism 669; North-West Frontier 667, 677; police forces 666; princely states 666, 669; Rebellion of 1857 638–9, 666; religions in 665; and Russia 699; sea routes to 25; Taj Mahal 683; taxation 665, 666, 667, 669; as world economy 666

Indian National Congress 669

Indian Ocean 18

Indochina (French) 594, 639, 649, 668, 699

Indonesia 5–6, 639

Indus, river 630

industrial hazards and illness 137–8

industrial revolution (as term) 139

industrialists 319, 320, 611

industrialization xiii, xix, xx, 18, 132–69, 175, 187, 189, 281, 489, 630; advance of 175; and alcohol 511–12; associated with masculinity 500; coal and iron production 139–47; effects on women 508; and European hegemony 630; in France 18; guilds and trade unions 158–65; in late 1840s 187, 189; misery and oppression of 489; and phrenology 423; process of xiii; and railway expansion 380; and Realist novel 522–3; and social change 281; and spread of disease 399, 400–401; transport 147–58

industry 292–9; investment in 287–8

inequality xix–xx, 171, 268, 540

infant mortality 139, 331–2, 332–3, 403–4

infections 420–21, 442 see also epidemics; disease

Inkerman, Battle of 234

Inquisition, Roman 215, 217

insanity (mental illness) 424–31, 443; alleged causes 427; deviance and 431; and diminished responsibility 434

insurance 327; accident 551–2; shipping 293; and standardization of time 393

internal combustion engine xxi, 387

Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization (IMRO) 679, 688, 689

International Convention for the Safety of Life at Sea 395

International Council of Women 545

International Date Line 393

International Financial Control Commission 690

International Psychoanalytic Association 417

International Woman’s Suffrage Alliance: Congress (1913, Budapest) 545; Congress (Copenhagen, 1904) 544; official languages 545

International Women’s Day 566

International Women’s Suffrage Alliance 545

International Working Men’s Association (First International) 270–71, 272; General Council 272; Hague Congress (1872) 272 see also Second International

introversion 418

investment, overseas 352

Ioannina 53

Ionian islands 59, 226

Iorga, Nicolae 489

Iraq 53

Ireland: and Act of Union 179, 488; agrarian crimes 571; birth rates 409; Catholicism in 45, 571, 576, 577; emigration from 127, 347, 348, 349, 457, 570; Fenians 577; Home Rule 538, 571, 576–8, 621–2; Home Rule League (later Irish Parliamentary Party) 576; Irish MPs at Westminster 576; Irish National Invincibles 577; Irish, as workers 338; job-creation schemes 144; Kilmainham Treaty 577; Land War 571; landowners in 571, 577; literacy in 481, 571; mental institutions in 428–9; mortality crisis 125–6; nationalism 457, 487–8, 577; overpopulation 123; Parliament 487–8, 581; peasant movement 571; potato cultivation 123, 125; potato famine xvi, 8, 125–8, 399, 429, 571; Protestants in 571, 576, 581; republicans 13

Irk, river 307

Iron Gates (Danube gorge) 370

iron production 140, 142–4, 230, 295, 304, 368, 380

irredentism 111, 692

Isabella II, Queen of Spain 74, 107, 108, 223, 260, 279

Isandlwana, Battle of 660

Isère, river 370

Islam: in Africa 656, 657; in Albania 474, 693; in Algeria 636–7; in Balkans 688, 692; Bektashi sect

474; in Bosnia 62, 224, 474, 678; in Bulgaria 474; in central Asia 641; in Crete 690; in Haiti 267; in India 638, 665; in Ottoman Empire 18, 54, 83, 209, 474; in Serbia 678, 697; Shia and Sunni Muslims 474; in Tunisia 645

Isma’il Pasha, Khedive of Egypt 645–6

Istanbul 438; fires 372; underground railway 315; see also Constantinople

Italian (language) 488

Italians: in Austria 583; and Nationalities Law 260; as workers 338

Italy: administration in 15; and Africa 648–9; agriculture in 100, 112, 283, 284, 306; anarchism in 563; apparent instability in 588–93, 599; army 109, 439, 591; art in 526; Austrian forces in 192–3; Bakunin in 272, 563; and Balkan Wars 697; Banca Romana 590; banditry in 110; banking 304, 590–91; birth rates 408; canning industries 351; carabinieri 441; and Carlist uprisings 108; Catholic Church in 41, 463–4; chemical industry 304; and Chinese treaty ports 650; civil service 321; colonies 592, 645; and Congress of Vienna 23, 28; congresses of engineers 323–4; corruption 589, 590; cotton exports 304; Court of Appeal 591; Credito Mobiliare 590; deforestation 368; democracy in 592; dialects 482; earthquake and tsunami 371; education 463, 590; 1848 revolutions 189–90; elections 589; electrical industry 303, 304; emigration from 350–51; engineering 323; English artists in 375; and Ethiopia 591, 652–3, 655; flooding 369; food production 304; franchise 589, 590, 592, 600, 644; grain riots in 9; hunting rights in 362; hydroelectrical power plants 303–4; industrial production 132, 303–4; invasion of Libya xix, 692–3; invasion of Venetia 255; iron and steel production 304; Jews in 38, 475; labourers 113; land reclamation 369; landowners 589; lawyers 321; legal code 590; liberalism in 591; literacy in 481, 590; malaria in 396; medical profession 323; monarchs 600–601; motor manufacture in 303, 381; Municipal Guards 441; and Napoleon 3, 14, 59; national minorities in 572; nationalism in 180, 189–90, 239–46; opera 525–6, 527–8; parliamentary system 591; peasant revolts in 108–10, 221, 570; peasants in 616; pensions 551; Piedmontese Constitution 589; plague in 8; police forces 441–2; population 409; population growth 352; post-Napoleonic politics 38–41; press censorship 591; prisons 437, 438, 590; Public Security Guards 441; railways 151, 303, 377, 590; Realist literature in 525; revolutionaries in 74–5, 82; Risorgimento 292, 526, 590, 591; Riviera 715; road-building 351; secularization in 463; Senate 590; social reforms 591–2; Socialists 592; southern 305; standardization of time 391; strikes 590, 591; sugar-beet refining 351; and tariff barriers 285; taxation 112; textile production 134, 135; traffic regulation 314; trasformismo 592; and Triple Alliance 698; and Tunisia 645; Tuscan dialect 487; unification xvi, 17, 27, 151, 178–9, 193, 222, 240–46, 249, 251, 265, 292, 323, 463, 525, 583; universal male suffrage 568, 602; universities 323, 493; uprising against Spain (17th century) 70; urban life 113; Vatican 246; vendettas 344–5; vigilante justice 343; vineyards 112; wars of independence 242–4, 254; water supply 351; wine production 589; see also Piedmont, Piedmont-Sardinia

ivory trade 661, 663

Jack the Ripper 414

Jacobi, Carl Wigand Maximilian 425–6

Jacobins 38, 45, 46, 67, 74, 75, 82, 83, 162, 184, 213, 266, 271, 272, 598, 622; post-Jacobins 559

Jal, August 81

Jamaica 226

James, Henry 524; The Portrait of a Lady 623; The Princess Casamassima 562

James II, King of England 263

Jämtland, Sweden 128

Janáček, Leoš, Jenůfa 526

Janissaries 57–8

Japan 103, 272, 300, 379, 607, 618, 649, 650, 651; Anglo-Japanese Alliance 651–2, 699; attack on Russian fleet at Port Arthur 618; Boxer Rebellion and 651; British exports to 300; and Chinese treaty ports 650; and Montenegro 692; Wilhelm II and 607; see also Russo-Japanese War

Jardine Matheson 125

Jarvis, George 57

Jaurès, Jean 560–61, 711

Java 18

Jefferson, Thomas 174, 488

Jekyll, Gertrude 364

Jelačić, Count Josip 204, 206–7, 208, 240

Jena 33; Battle of 22, 175; University 33

Jenner, Edward 398

Jennings, George 310

Jersey 42, 629

Jerusalem 477–8; as centre of Earth 393

Jesuits 37, 38, 41, 182, 461, 465, 469

Jesus Christ 455, 459, 470, 521, 559; portrayed as ‘Aryan’ 686

Jews 474–80; in Algeria 636; in Argentina 475; attacks on 10, 105; in Austria 475, 476; as bankers 287, 477; in Belgium 476; in Berlin 477; blamed for peasant revolts 103; blamed for social protest 164; in Britain 475, 476, 480; in Bulgaria 476; and cholera 401; and Christianity 478; conspiracy theories on 347; as converts to Christianity 477; debarred from political office 476; denied civil rights 476; in Denmark 476; Disraeli on 575; as doctors 477; emancipation xvi, 15, 35, 476, 480; emigration to America 401, 475; emigration to Britain 475; as enemies of ‘Aryans’ 686; ennobled 477; exclusion from institutions 480; and feminism 330, 545; as founders of department stores 328; in France 475, 596–7; in Galicia 475; in garment industry 477; in Germany 475, 476, 477, 545, 622; ghettos for 41, 217, 475–6; in Greece 476; in Hamburg 476; in Hungary 181, 319, 477, 545, 586; intermarriage with ‘Aryans’ 656; in Italy 38, 475; as lawyers 477; in Macedonia 688; made to wear identification tags 656; Napoleon and 475, 476; and Nazi genocide

480; in Netherlands 475, 476; Nicholas II on 620; in North German Confederation 476; number in Europe 474; occupations of 477; and Orthodox Church 475; Orthodox and Reform 476; in Pale of Settlement 474–5; and Papal States 41; philanthropy of 475, 477–8; in Portugal 476; riots against 475; in Romania 475, 476, 478, 678; in Rome 476; in Russia 299, 350, 461, 474, 476, 615, 620; in Rustschuk 482; in St Petersburg 474–5; self-hating 501; Sephardi and Ashkenazi 482; in Serbia 476; and socialism 478; in Spain 476; as students 475; in Sweden 476; as traders 483; in USA 476, 623; Wagner and 529; in Württemberg 476; see also antisemitism; pogroms

Jex-Blake, Sophia 505, 506

Joachim, Joseph 528–9

Joanna Grudzinska, Princess (consort of Grand Duke Konstantin) 43, 50

João VI, King of Portugal 16, 42, 73

Johann, Archduke of Austria 197, 199, 211

Jordan, Wilhelm 203

Joseph II, Holy Roman Emperor 39

judicial system 38, 238, 278, 432, 555, 587; corruption in 442, see also corruption; powers 91, 435; reform 38, 266

Jung, Carl Gustav 417–18

Junker nobility 99, 281, 285, 570 see also Landräte

The Jurist 343–4

Jurkovich, Leopoldina 357

justice, administration in rural areas 343–5, see also courts; punishment; exile

Juvenile Missionary Magazine 681–2

Kajkavian Croatian dialect 487

Kalevala 487

Kalkandelen 224

Kama Sutra 630

Kandinsky, Wassily Wassilyevich 532–3; Squares with Concentric Circles 533

Kanpur 639

Kansas 2

Kapodistrias, Ioannis 59–61, 62

Karadjordje (Djordje Petrović) 61

Karadjordjević, Alexander 62

Karadjordjević family 691

Karakozov, Dmitry Vladimirovich 611–12

Karavelov, Lyuben Stoychev 317

Karl Anton, Prince of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen 261

Karl I, Emperor of Austria 715

Karl XIV Johann, King of Sweden (earlier Jean Bernadotte) 447

Karl XV, King of Sweden 225

Karlsbad 35, 289

Karlsruhe 10

Karnak 627

Kars 675, 677

Karstadt, Rudolph 328

Kassel 76, 263

Katanga 663

Katharevousa (formal Greek) 488

Katkov, Mikhail Nikiforovich 490

Kautsky, Karl 555, 557

Kay, Joseph 511

Kazan 131; University 496, 497, 611

Keats, John, ‘Ode to a Nightingale’ 397

Keble, John 456

Kelvin, William Thomson, Baron 394, 498

Kemper, Jeronimo de Bosch 552

Kenya 667

Kershaw, Ian, To Hell and Back xix

Kertheny, Károly 417

Keyserling, Alexander von 277

Kharkov 368

Khartoum 646

Khiva 641

Kierkegaard, Søren 470

Kiev 87, 613, 619; Jewish students in 475

‘King Ludd’ 162, 164

Kingsley, Charles, Alton Locke 522

Kingston Lacey, Dorset 628

Kipling, Rudyard: ‘Recessional’ 624–5; ‘The White Man’s Burden’ 669, 682

Kirchner, Ernst Ludwig 532

Kireyevsky, Ivan 176

Kitchener, Sir Herbert (later 1st Earl Kitchener) 653, 661

Kladderadatsch 515

Klaus, Karl 497

Klein, Stefan Isidor 277

Klenze, Leo von 316

Klimt, Gustav, Judith and the Head of Holofernes 531

Klipin, Herbert 513

Knights of Liberty 32

Koch, Robert 398, 399, 402, 421

Kodak cameras 519

Kogalniceanu, Mihail 110

Kokand 641

Koller, Karl 419

Königgrätz, Battle of 254–7, 702

Königsberg (Karaliaučius, Królewiec.) 35, 99

Königstein 210

Konstantin Konstantinovich, Grand Duke of Russia 247

Konstantin Pavlovich, Grand Duke of Russia 43, 49–50

Koran 34

Korea 618, 649, 650

Kortrijk 466

Kosovo 693

Kossuth, Ferenc 587

Kossuth, Lajos 181, 191, 191–2, 205, 207, 208, 209, 217, 245, 246, 346, 357, 459

Kotzebue, August von, History of the German Empire 34

Kraepelin, Emil 430–31

Krafft-Ebing, Baron Richard von, Psychopathia Sexualis 417

Krasińsky, Zygmunt 117–18

Krautjunker 287, 291

Kravchinsky, Sergei Mikhailovich (‘Stepniak’) 563

Kremer, Józef, Letters from Cracow 175

Krivoy Rog iron-ore fields 233

Krog, Gina 546

Kropotkin, Pyotr Alexeyevich 91–2

Krüdener, Juliane von 459

Krupp, Alfred 144, 293, 295, 557

Krupp steel firm 143–4, 157, 295–6

Krzyzanowski, Lieutenant-Colonel Seweryn 50

Kulm, Battle of 71

Kulpa Navigation Company 150

Kulturkampf 465

Kumanovo 693

Kupka, František, Amorpha: Fugue in Two Colours 533

La Marmora, Alfonso 255

La Mata 370

La Rochelle 32

Labouchère, Henry 415

labour: child 132, 138–9, 144–5, 411; freedom of 281, 338; indentured 667; unrest 548, 581

labourers, rural 113; see also serfdom

Ladies’ National Association for the Repeal of the Contagious Diseases Acts (1869) 414

Ladino (language) 482

Lafargue, Paul 559

Lafayette, Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de 31, 65, 66

Laffitte, Jacques 31

Lagos 637

Laibach (Ljubljana), Congress of 40

Lamartine, Alphonse de 200, 215

Lamberg, Franz von 206

Lampedusa, Giuseppe Tomasi di, Il Gattopardo (The Leopard) 291–2

Lamprecht, Karl 390

Lamszus, Wilhelm, The Human Slaughterhouse: A Picture of the Coming War 703

Lanarkshire 549

Lancashire 133, 162, 300, 538

The Lancet 405

land: confiscation of 11, 29, 39, 248, 461; dependence on 113, 119; limits on ownership 108; nationalization of 43; prices and rents 103; reforms 109; seizure of 103, 105; uncultivated 358; see also landowners; serfdom

Landes 376

Landflucht 338

landholdings, morcellization 347–8

landowners (seigneurs): aristocratic 285–93; bourgeois as 221, 285, 353–4; in Britain 280–81; compensation for loss of serfs 96–7, 100; and hunting rights 362; and noble status 282; in Russia 85–6, 89, 115, 285; seigneurial courts 15, 90–91; and serfs 90–91

Landräte 285

landscaping 364

landslides 368–9

Landwehr and Louisenstadt canal 150

languages 480–85, 488, 491; standardization of 487, 571, see also individual languages

Lanson, Gustave 622–3

Lanza, Giovanni 410–11

Laos 649

Lapps 482

Larousse dictionary 313

laryngoscope 422

Lassalle, Ferdinand 270, 290, 468, 554

Lasswitz, Kurt, On Two Planets 389

Lateran Treaty 246

latifundia 108, 117

Latin (language), use of 483, 491, 496; in legislation 202

Latin America 32, 37, 108, 133, 347, 353, 635; rubber production 663

Latour, Count Theodor Franz Baillet von 194, 204–6

Lattre de Tassigny, Jean Joseph Marie Gabriel de 279; see also Delattre, Laurent 279

Latvia (Lettland) 88, 129, 461; see also Courland

Lauragais 511

Laval, Gustaf de 284

Lavigerie, Cardinal Charles 469

Lavrov, Pyotr Lavrovich 611, 616

Lawes, Sir John Bennet 284

law: courts 215, 238; profession 321, 327, 495; reform 305

lawyers 319, 320-1, 327, 354, 495; unqualified 321

Le Havre 189

Le Mans, Battle of 264

League of Communists (League of the Just) 269, 270

League of Free Poles 49

League for Peace and Freedom 272

League of the Three Emperors 677, 698

Ledru-Rollin, Alexandre 201, 217–18

Légion d’honneur 594

legislative assemblies 35–6, 182, 353, 567, 570; see also parliaments and diets under individual countries

Legitimists 69

Leicester 432

Leichhardt, Ludwig 630, 634

Leiden, Stadsgehoorzaal 528

Leinster, Augustus Fitzgerald, Duke of 125–6

Leipzig 75, 153, 450; Battle of the Nations 21, 205, 629; Gewandhaus 528; University 430, 495

Leithe, river 583

Lemberg 513

Lenin (Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov) 435, 517, 643, 687; What Is to Be Done? 617

Leo XII, Pope 41

Leo XIII, Pope 464, 465; Rerum novarum (encyclical) 464

Léon, Spain 129

Leoncavallo, Ruggero, I Pagliacci 525

Leopold I, Grand Duke of Baden 190, 212

Leopold I, King of the Belgians 71–2, 152, 153, 466

Leopold II, Grand Duke of Tuscany 181, 190, 193, 213, 215, 221

Leopold II, Holy Roman Emperor 14

Leopold II, King of the Belgians 407, 607, 632, 647, 650, 662–4; Force Publique (private army) 663, 664

Leopold, Prince of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen 260–61

Leopoldville, Congo 663

Lermontov, Mikhail Yuryevich 290

Leroux, Pierre 173

lesbianism 415–16, 501

Lesseps, Ferdinand de 645–6

Leutwein, Theodor 655

Lever Brothers 300

Lewis, Isle of 125

Libelt, Karol 610

liberal reformism 555–6

liberalism: in Britain 180, 183–5, 219–20; and encouragement of education 484; in France 32, 63, 67, 185–6, 219, 221; in Germany 35, 182, 265; Guizot and 32, 185–6; in Italy 40, 180–81; Latin America as model of 17, 32; middle-class 46, 621; in Portugal 42, 73; and revolutions of 1848 567; in Russia 43; and serfdom 95; in Spain 35, 37, 42, 74, 108; in Switzerland 182; in Tuscany 38–9; see also Revolutions of 1848

Liberia 649

libraries, public 515

La Libre Parole 597

Libya 649; invasion by Italy xix, 692–3; under Ottoman control 645

licenciatura 493

Lichnowsky family 108

Lichnowsky, Felix 199–200

Liebig, Justus von 116, 284, 301

Liebknecht, Karl, Militarism and Anti-Militarism 557

Liebknecht, Wilhelm 404, 554, 557, 623–4

Lieder 447, 448, 452

Liège 142, 152

Liegnitz 147

Lieven, Princess Dorothea 47–8

Lieven family 288

life expectancy 331–2, 403, 404

Light Brigade, charge of 234

lighting: electric 304, 315; gas 314–15; street 305, 314–15

Ligny, Battle of 12

Lilienthal, Otto 387–8

Lille 314

Limburg 466

Linati, Claudio 17

Lindley, Robert Searles 311

Lindley, William 311–12

Lindley, William Heerlein 311

Lindsay, William Lauder 427

linen production 132

Linz 151

Lion-taming 360–61

Lisbon 16, 42, 73, 307, 569

Lister, Anne 416

Lister, Joseph 421

Listow, Hans 453

Liszt, Franz (Ferenc) 183, 448–9, 529

literacy 325, 380, 481, 485, 487; among town and country dwellers 481; increase in 571; rates 189, 238–9, 514, 620

literati 276, 324, 340; as term 275, 610

literature 443; in Biedermeier period 444–7, 447; non-fiction 523; realist 522–5; Romantic 449,

450–51, 452–3; Symbolist 531–2; translated 490, see also fiction, and under individual authors

Lithuania 51, 89, 129, 247, 248, 474

Little Bighorn, Battle of 242

Livadiya 404

Liverpool 312, 348, 353; Royal Liver Building 385

Liverpool, Robert Jenkinson, 2nd Earl of 184

Liverpool and Manchester railway line 150–51, 153, 155

living standards, improvements 345

The Living Voice 610

Livingstone, David 632, 633, 634, 682

Livonia 278; see also Latvia

Livorno 213

Lloyd, Marie 516

Lloyd George, David 281, 580, 700

Lloyd’s of London 293

Lobachevsky, Nicholas Ivanovich 497

locomotives 150, 151, 153, 155, 156, 382

Łódź 98, 135, 311

logging 367–8

Loissy, Alfred 464

Lombardy 6-7, 23, 39-40, 135, 192, 194, 214, 284

Lombroso, Cesare 439–40, 685; Criminal Man 439

London: Astley’s Amphitheatre 626; Bakunin in 272; Brick Lane 341; British Museum 273, 627, 630; Canterbury Hall, Lambeth 516; Carlton Club 501; Cheapside 314; church attendance in 467; Conference (1830) 71, 73; constituencies 568; crime in 522; criminal classes 340; Crystal Palace 292–3, 453, 643; demonstrations 225; Downing Street 538; Drury Lane 360; East End 307; emigration to 346; Empire Day parade 683; English Royal Menagerie 360; escalators in 384; Euston Station 390; Fleet Street 314; fog 374–5; gas consumption 314; Gautier on 489; Great Exhibition (1851) 292–3, 310, 353, 643; Hampstead 307, 325, 331; Harrods 329, 384; Holborn Viaduct electricity generating station 302; Holloway prison 537, 539; Holloway Road underground station 384; Houndsditch 563; Houses of Parliament 371-2, 538; Hyde Park 538; Imperial College 306; Inns of Court 321; Jacob’s Island 308; Jago district 341; Jews in 477; Kew Gardens 539; Leadenhall Market 362; Lister in 421; Louis-Napoleon in 215; Mechanics’ Institutes 485; Metropolitan Police 78, 184, 440–41; Metropolitan railway 315; music halls 516; ‘mysteries’ of 167; National Gallery 539; Newgate Prison 437; Obstetrical Society 430; Pall Mall 314; parks 356; Peabody Trust 313; Pentonville prison 436–7; pilferage in small-scale industry 341; professional crime 341; Reform Club 501; Regent Street 316; Regent’s Park 316, 360, 361, 539; revolutionaries in 346, 347; ‘rookeries’ 308; Royal College of Science 306; Royal Geographical Society 630, 632, 634; Royal School of Mines 306; Russell Square 538; Russian embassy 47–8; Schwarzenberg in 240; sewer system 310; Sidney Street siege 563; Smithfield cattle show 374; Smithfield meat market 309, 310; social geography 307; Southwark 331; Spa Fields riots 45; Spitalfields 7, 313; street maps 341; streets 314; suburbs 307; Surgical Hospital 430; and tea-clippers 394; Tory voters in 575; Tower of London 45; Treaty of (1827) 58, 61; Treaty of (1913) 695; Underground (‘tube’) 302, 315, 384; University College 496; University College Hospital 418; Vauxhall Gardens 386; West Ham South constituency 559; Westminster Bridge 314, 530; Whitechapel 414; Willesden Cycling Club 383; Zoological Society 361; see also Britain

London Daily News 673

London Missionary Society 267

London Protocol (1877) 674

‘long nineteenth century’ xvi

Löning, Karl 34

Lönnrot, Elias 487

looms: hand and power 132, 133–4, 135, 136, 137, 139, 162, 300, 304, 335; Jacquard 134

looting 626–30

Lörrach 200

Lorraine 297, 376, 511

Los von Rom movement 479

Loubet, Alphonse 315

Louis VI (the Fat), King of the Franks 29

Louis VII, King of France 66

Louis XIV, King of France 27, 63, 194

Louis XVI, King of France 11, 14, 66, 183, 196

Louis XVIII, King of France 11, 28, 29–31, 65, 66, 593

Louis-Napoleon see Napoleon III

Louis-Philippe, King of France 63–4, 65–8, 69, 72, 188–9, 197, 200, 219, 230, 594, 636

Louise-Marie, Queen of the Belgians 72

Lourdes 455, 473

Lourenço Marques (Maputo) 283

L’Ouverture, Toussaint 19, 59

Low Countries 8, 9, 14; administration in 15, see also Belgium; Netherlands

Lowe, Robert 483

Lowell, Massachusetts 446

Lower Austria 91, 93, 135, 257

Lower Rhine 212, 332

Lozengrad (Kirklareli, Saránda Eklisíe) 695

Lozère 481

Lucan, George, 3rd Earl of 234

Lucas, Charles 437

Lucas-Championnière, Just 421

Lucheni, Luigi 563, 583

Luddites 162, 164

Ludwig I, King of Bavaria 183, 190, 219, 316

Ludwig II, Grand Duke of Hesse-Darmstadt 183, 190

Ludwig III, Grand Duke of Hesse-Darmstadt 190

Ludwigshafen 301

Lueger, Karl 479, 585

Lumière, Louis and Auguste 395, 519

Lumpenproletariat 340

‘lunatic asylums’ 172, 424–31; legislation on 424–5

Lusatia 482

Luther, Martin 34

Lutheranism 458, 459, 461, 467, 479

Luxembourg 72

Luxemburg, Rosa 566, 643, 687; The Accumulation of Capital 557

Luxemburg-Lorraine Pig Iron Syndicate 303

Luxor 626, 628

Luzzatti, Luigi 284

Lvov, Prince Georgy Yevgenyenich 281

Lwów (Lemberg, Lviv) football club 513

Lydekker, Richard 359

Lyell, Sir Charles, Principles of Geology 471

lynx, Sardinian 364

Lyon 9, 67, 134, 151, 218; Master Joiners’ Circle 329

Macartney, George Macartney, 1st Earl 18

Macaulay, Thomas Babington 499, 666

Macdonald, Alexander 549

Macedonia 53, 462, 675, 678, 679, 688, 693, 697

MacGahan, Januarius 673

machine guns xix, 702, 703

machinery: breaking 164, 212; export of 143

McKinley, William 564

MacMahon, Patrice de 262–3, 593

McNeill, William H. xv

Madagascar 13, 64, 268, 649

Madeira 715

Madras 666; University of 666

Madrid 110, 223, 377, 467; Almacenes Madrid-Paris department store 329; prostitutes 411; schools in 484; tobacco factory 336

Mafeking, Relief of 661, 683

Maffei, Clara 320

Mafia 345, 442, 589

magazines and newspapers 31, 35, 48, 177, 245, 271, 275, 380, 387, 507, 514–15, 523, 541, 543, 544, 556, 565, 567, 571, 597, 611, 683

Magenta, Battle of 242

magical practices 472–4

Magyar (language) 587

Magyarization 202, 587

Magyars 202–4, 587; see also Hungary

Mahdists 653

Mahler, Gustav: Eighth Symphony (Symphony of a Thousand) 529; Third Symphony 529

Mähly, Jacob 502

Mahmud II, Ottoman Sultan 53, 55, 57–8, 61, 62

mail-order retailing 328

Maine-et-Loire 129

Mainz 146, 370

Maistre, Joseph de 81

Maji-Maji uprising 656

Majuba Hill, Battle of 660

Makarska 8

Málaga 350

malaria 123, 217, 245, 301, 369, 370, 396

Malatesta, Errico 563

Malaya 661, 683

Malayan peninsula 639

Malcontents, War of the 107

Malinovsky, Roman Vatslavovich 617–18

Mallarmé, Stéphane 531

Malling-Hansen, Rasmus 330

Mallon, Mary (‘Typhoid Mary’) 399

Malmö 199

malnutrition xix, 8, 73, 123, 128, 139, 403, 439

Małogoszcz, Battle of 247

Malta 25, 226, 626

Malthus, Thomas 116, 120, 126

Manchester 9, 143, 225; Owens College (later Victoria University) 496; Peterloo Massacre 10; School Board 538

Manchuria 377, 618, 649, 651

Manet, Édouard 290, 530

Mani peninsula 60

mania 427, 431

Manin, Daniele 192–3, 217

Mann, Heinrich, Professor Unrat 326

Mann, Thomas, Buddenbrooks 326

Mann, Tom 558

Mannheim 190, 196; social clubs 319

Manning, Henry Edward 457

Mantegazza, Paolo 414

Manteuffel, Otto von 250

Mantua 241

Manuel II, King of Portugal 569

Manzoni, Alessandro, The Betrothed 487

Maoris 639–40

Marc, Franz, Der Blaue Reiter 532

Marconi, Guglielmo 392

Marconi company 392

Maria Anna of Savoy, Empress of Austria 195

Maria Cristina, Queen, Regent of Spain 74

Maria I (the Mad), Queen of Portugal 16

Maria II (Maria de Glória), Queen of Portugal 73–4

Maria Theresa, Queen of the Two Sicilies 243

Mariana Islands 649, 652

La Marianne 559

Marie Louise, Empress of France 21

Marie-Antoinette, Queen of France 14, 183, 194, 196

Marlborough, Charles Spencer-Churchill, 9th Duke of 280

Marlborough, Consuelo, Duchess of (earlier Vanderbilt) 280

Marlborough, George Spencer-Churchill, 8th

Duke of 280

Marlborough, Jane, Duchess of (earlier Warren Price) 280

Marmara, Sea of 675

Marmite 301

Marmont, Auguste-Frédéric 64–5

Marne, river 149

Maros, river 369

Marpingen, Saarland 455, 465

Marr, Wilhelm, The Way to Victory of Jewdom over Germandom 478

marriage: among Baltic nobility 276–7; among villagers 375; of British nobility 280; civil 15, 210, 456, 463, 465, 466; as ‘conjugal slavery’ 173–4; decline in rate 127; interracial 655–6; mixed-religion 181; morganatic 586, 704; and property 574; Proudhon on 175; and restrictions on women 170, 504–5, 508, 524, 565; as slavery 173; of Spanish nobility 279–80; see also divorce

Mars (planet) 388, 389

Mars-la-Tour, Battle of 262

La Marseillaise 66, 188, 201, 218, 276

Marseille 178, 482, 597

Marshall Islands 649

Martignac, Jean Baptiste Gay, Vicomte de 32

Martin, Rudolf, Yearbook of German Millionaires 287–8

Martinique 267

Marx, Eleanor 558

Marx, Karl: and Bakunin 272–3, 553, 562; and League of Communists 269–70; death 554; and Engels 177, 554–5; and Guesde 559; as Hegelian 177; in London 269, 270, 346; on Lumpenproletariat 340; on petty bourgeoisie 326; and Polish revolt against Russia 249, 270; in protest at French National Assembly 218; on rural Europeans xxii; and Social Democrats 554; on unity of workers 338; and workers’ groups 270–71; The Civil War in France 271; Class Struggles in France, 1848 to 1850 270; The Communist Manifesto (with Engels) 269–70; Critique of the Gotha Programme 554; The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte 270; Das Kapital 558; The Poverty of Philosophy 177

Marxism 266, 554, 559, 617

Mary, Virgin: cult of 457; visions of 455–6

Masaryk, Tomáš Garrigue 546, 585

Mascagni, Pietro, Cavalleria Rusticana 525

masculinity 320; and clothing 503; and facial hair 501–3; and top hats 503

masochism 417

Masonic lodges see Freemasonry

masturbation 416; associated with insanity 427

matches, white-phosphorus 335

Matheson, Sir James 125

Matisse, Henri, Woman with a Hat 532

Matterhorn 365

Mauretania (ocean liner) 395

Mauritius 16, 25, 667

Mavromichalis, Petrobey 61

Maximilian I, Emperor of Mexico 583

Maximilian II, King of Bavaria 190, 212

Maxwell, James Clerk 498

Mayer, Arno, The Persistence of the Ancien Régime xxiii

Mayhew, Henry, London Labour and the London Poor 340, 488–9

Mayor de Montrichet, Jean-François 369

Mayr, Georg von 345

Mayreder, Rosa 384

Mazovia 135

Mazzini, Giuseppe 41, 178–9, 192, 215, 217, 239, 590

Mecca 637

Mecklenburg 101, 436

medicine xx, 322-3, 418–23, 442, 495, 524; see also doctors

Mediterranean 396, 699

Mehmed V, Ottoman Sultan 690

Mehmed VI, Ottoman Sultan 715

Meiji, Emperor of Japan 650

Meinecke, Friedrich 499

melancholia 427

Melbourne, William Lamb, 2nd Viscount 372, 660

Méline tariff 285

melodrama 516, 518

The Memoirs of a Singer (pornographic book) 275

menageries, princely 360

Mendeleev tariff 285

Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, Felix 453, 454, 529; Scottish Symphony 452

Menelik II, Negus (Emperor) of Ethiopia 652–3

meningitis 399

Merano 274

Mercadante, Saverio, The Horatii and the Curiatii (opera) 527

merchants, mercantilism 319, 324, 353, 635

Mérimée, Prosper 336

Mesmer, Franz Anton, and mesmerism 418

Messenhauer, Wenzel 207

Messina 117–18, 371

metallurgical industry 86, 298–9, 305, 306

Metaxas, Andreas 223

Methodism 457

metric system 376–7

Metternich, Count (later Prince) Klemens von: as Austrian foreign minister 21, 23; and Belgian Revolution 71; and carbonari 41; and censorship 181, 447, 448; on changes in Europe 80; and Congress of Vienna 21; fall of 191, 192, 194, 195, 197, 229, 266; and Franz Joseph 582; and Freemasons 82; on Freemasons 44; and French Revolution 69–70; and German Confederation 33; Guizot 185; and Hungarian liberals 181; on Italy 487; on Kapodistrias 60; legislation promoted by 77; and Lombardy 39; and Mazzini 179; and nationalist movements 180; reactionary politics of 266; repressive measures 34–5; and revolutionary movements 45, 77, 78, 83, 84, 182; on rioters 46; on Schwarzenberg 240; and Switzerland 78; and Tsar Alexander I 459

Metz 262–3

Mexico 583; revolution 17

Michelet, Jules 468–9

Michelin 381

Mickiewicz, Adam 49; Pan Tadeusz 451

microscopes 498

Middle Ages, recreation of 454, 521, 527

Middle East 18

Midi 11

Mierosławski, Ludwik 186, 203, 212, 214, 219

migration: and agricultural cycle 339; from country to town 338; of Muslims to Anatolia 689; see also emigration

Miguel I, King of Portugal 73

Miguelists 73–4, 229

Miklós, Jósika, Abafi 452

Mikulicz-Radecki, Johannes von 421

Milan 13, 151, 192, 193, 194, 303, 304, 323; salons 320

military conscription 39, 108, 247, 250

‘The Militia of the Condemned’ (conspiratorial society) 75

militias, citizens’ 70, 76, 82, 193, 204, 205, 212, 219–20, 250, 277, 278, 371, 620

Miljanov Popović, Duke Marko 279

milk, hygiene standards 332–3

Mill, John Stuart 272, 547; The Subjection of Women 540–41, 546

Millais, John Everett, Christ in the House of His Parents 521

Millaud, Moïse Polydore 514

Millerand, Alexandre 560–61

Millet, Jean-François, The Gleaners 521

Milyukov, Pavel Nikolayevich 544

Milyutin, Dmitry Alexeyevich 238

Mindon Min, King of Burma 668

Miners’ Association of Great Britain and Ireland 163

mines, mining, miners: pigeon and greyhound racing 513; strikes 548, 581; theft of coal by workers 341; trade unions 549; and water supply; see also coal production

Minghetti, Marco 589

minorities, national 572; in Austria 572, 585, 609; in Germany 601; in Hungary 201-2, 208

Minsk 367

Minutolo, Antonio, Prince of Canosa 41

miracles 473

Mirdita 695

Mishkenot Sha’ananim almshouses 477–8

misogyny 269, 566

missionaries 267, 467, 638, 639, 648, 650, 658, 665; societies of 469, 682

Missolonghi 56, 81

Mistinguett (Jeanne Florentine Bourgeois) 516

Mittermaier, Carl 434

‘model dwelling’ movement 552

Modena 40, 75, 193, 243; Duchy of 38

Modernism 536; in music 535–6

Mohammed, prophet 636

Mohl, Robert von 166

el-Mokhrani, Mohamed 636

Moldavia 53, 54, 104–5, 167, 202–3, 233, 679; see also Danubian Principalities

Moldova 87, 474

Moliterno, Basilicata 43

Moltke, Helmuth von (the Elder) 254–7, 391, 703, 709; in Franco-Prussian War 261–3, 265

Moltke, Helmuth von (the Younger) 703, 709

Moltke, Maria von 254

monarchy: abolition of 558, 567; absolute 30, 32, 36, 37; constitutional 185, 266, 569; and death penalty 434; Divine Right of 28, 29, 197, 210, 582, 607; and hereditary principle 19–20; legitimacy 69, 183; and liberalism 82–3; loss of powers 197; Serbian 569

monasteries 182; dissolution of 15, 461–2, 464

Monastir (Bitola), Battle of 693

Mond, Ludwig 301

Monet, Claude 375, 530; Impression, Sunrise 530

Mongolia 649

Monist League 684

‘Monkey Closets’ 310

monks 636

monopolies 644

Monroe Doctrine 16, 25, 57

Mons 152

monsoon 667

Montagu-Stuart-Wortley, Edward 607

Monte Carlo 289

Montefiore, Sir Moses 477–8

Montenegro 53, 207, 279, 344, 677, 678, 692–3; in Balkan Wars 693–4, 696, 698; princesses married to Russian Grand Dukes 710

Monteux, Pierre 535

Montez, Lola 183, 190, 191, 413

Montezuma, Emperor 169

Montpellier, University of 488

Montreal 226

Monza 151

Moore, James 383

Moravia 123, 206, 297, 526

Moravian Church 458

Moréas, Jean, ‘Symbolist Manifesto’ 531

Morel, Edmund Dene 664

Morel, Eugène 515–16

Morny, Charles de Morny, Duc de 120

Morocco 649, 652, 692, 699

Morozov, Savva Timofeyevich 326

Morozov, Savva Vasilyevich 326

Morris, William 533, 558

Morrow, William 141–2

Morse, Samuel 157

Morse Code 157, 302

Mortier, Édouard 67

Moscow: Arts Theatre 326; beggars in 118; burning of 3–4; emigration from 350; Grand Army march to 1; industry 298; Jewish students in 475; Jews expelled from 474, 615; Okhrana (secret police) 615, 618; Orthodox Church in 461; retreat from 3; Senate Square 44; University 610, 611

Moscow Sheet (newspaper) 514

Moselle, river 10

mosquitoes, and malaria 369, 370, 396

Most, Johann (John), Science of Revolutionary Warfare 564

Mostar 224

motion pictures see cinema

motor manufacture 303, 352, 381–3

motor vehicles xviii

mountain areas 364–5

Mountnorris, George Annesley, 2nd Earl of 627

mourning clothes 405

movement, freedom of 96, 101, 281

Mozambique 648

Mughal dynasty 18, 639

Muhammad Ahmad (Mahdi), Sheikh, ruler of Sudan 646

Muhammad Ali Pasha, Khedive of Egypt 57, 133, 413, 626, 627, 645

Muhammad III, Bey of Tunis 645

Mühlen, Viktor von Zur 274–7, 291

Mukden, Battle of 618

mule, self-acting 134

Mulhouse 134

Mull, Scotland 124

multinational companies xvi, xv

multiple sclerosis 430

Mulvany, William Thomas 144

Munch, Edvard, The Scream 531

Munich: beer cellars 147, 517; beggars in 7; bourgeoisie 319; building programme 316; economic downturn in 75; fog 374; grain riots in 9; Hofbräuhaus 147; Otto of Greece in 223; registered prostitutes 411; University 495

Münster, Ernst, Count of 76

Munthe, Axel 308

Murad V, Sultan of the Ottoman Empire 237, 674

Murat, Joachim 40

Murcia 370

murder trials 345–6, 500

Murray, Sir George 659

Murray’s Handbook for Travellers in Scandinavia 317

museums, colonial 643

music: in Biedermeier period 447–9; classical xix, 528–9; folk 510–11, 534; in France 530–31; in Germany 528–30; Impressionism in 530–31; Modernist 535; Romantic 448–9, 451–2, 453, 529–30, 535

music halls 516–17, 528

Muslims see Islam

Musolino, Giuseppe 110

Mussolini, Benito 590, 591

Mussorgsky, Modest Petrovich, Boris Godunov 527

Muthesius, Hermann 534

mutual benefit societies 270, 323

muzhiks 167, 502

Myall Creek, New South Wales 659

mysticism 426, 459

Nachtigal, Gustav 647

Nafplio 58, 60, 61

Nagelmackers, Georges 379

Nama tribe 655–6

Nansen, Fridtjof 633, 634

Napier, Sir Charles 73, 638

Naples: Bakunin in 272; carbonari in 39; cholera in 402; Garibaldi in 243–4; hall of justice 321; lawyers in 321; organization of workers in 160; poverty in 190; and railways 151; slums 308; Spanish rule in 70; uprisings in 40, 190, 193, 214; and volcanic eruptions 371

Napoleon I, Emperor of the French: abdication 29; admired by Hegel 175; and Algeria 636; Arndt and 33; Austria and 180; and construction of mountain roads 365; coup of 18 Brumaire 12–13, 218; death 12; death on St Helena 12; defeats of Prussia 22–3; and Drovetti 628; exile in St Helena 12, 15; and feudal Estates 180; Grand Army 1–2, 13, 49, 209, 696–7; guerrilla wars against 107; ‘Hundred Days’ 23, 29; Imperial Guard 2; influence of 19, 29–40, 45, 53, 59, 62–3, 64, 78, 80, 82, 231; invasion of Egypt 18; invasion of Poland 347; invasion of Russia 1–4, 22, 233–4; in Italy 59; and Italy 3, 14; and Jews 475, 476; land reforms 109; legacy of 13–16, 18; legend of 12–13, 231; in literature and art 526; looting of art and antiquities 629; and Metternich 21, 459; and military academy 494; military strategy 254; and Nelson 111; occupation of Spain 37; popularity 11; Portuguese Legion 42; reforms 39, 49; relatives 230; return from Elba 11, 20, 193; road-building programme 147–8; rumours of return (1815) 9; and slavery 19; and standardization 314; and Switzerland 77; title 66; and Tsar Alexander I of Russia 22; views on women 15; volunteers against 34; see also Bonapartism; Code Napoléon

Napoleon II, Emperor of the French 218

Napoleon III, Emperor of the French (earlier Louis-Napoleon Bonaparte): assassination attempt on 242; attempted coups (1835 and 1840) 69, 75, 215; in Baden-Baden 29; and Bismarck 253–4, 257; and bureaucracy 230; and carbonari 75; and Catholic Church 231–2; and constitution 249; and Crimean War 234, 239; and Devil’s Island penal colony 436; elected French president 215–16, 217; as Emperor 218–19; in exile 263; and Franco-Prussian War 260–65; heir of 594; and Indonesia 639; and Italian unification 241–3, 245–6; Liberal Empire 249; in London 215,

225; and nationalism 229; and nobility 279; peasantry’s support of 221; and Pius IX 216; policies 229–32, 265; and Spanish succession 260; and universal male suffrage 228, 593, 601; and urban improvement 312, 316

Napoleon, Prince Imperial 594

Napoleonic Wars: aftermath 3–5, 7, 16–18, 27–8, 83, 143, 354, 440, 635, 698; and British economy 132; and compensation to Allies 36; Decembrists and 44; in Greece 54, 61, 82; and increase in wolf numbers 359; and Luddites 162; profits made during 136; represented in art 526; Tosca and 526; veterans of 12, 31, 48, 51, 64, 65, 93, 186, 192, 193, 202, 206, 208, 209, 216, 219, 422, 638; warfare in Europe preceding 26

narcissism 417

Narváez, Ramón 222

Nash, John 316

Nasir al-Din, Shah 289

Natal 226, 660–61

Natalia, Republic of 660

nation states xvi, 553, 557, 624, 686, 697; German 210, 222, 250, 257, 259; Italian 246; see also national identity

National Association for the Protection of Labour 163

National Association for the Repeal of the Contagious Diseases Acts (1869) 414

National Guards 220, 250

national identity 62, 77, 224, 487, 528, 610, 669, 670, 683, 689

National Typographical Association 163

nationalism: in Africa 633; in China 650–51; and democracy 624; divisions between groups 222; in the East 463; in Europe 488; and feminism 545–8; in Finland 178, 487, 528, 546–7; in France 200–201; in Germany 199–200; in Greece 54, 61, 82; Habsburg Empire and 180, 203, 222; in Hungary 201–2; ideals and aims of 82, 177–8; increase in power 229, 266; and liberalism 686; linguistic and ethnic 583; literary and cultural 526–8; and Marxism 557; Mazzini and 179; in Moldavia and Wallachia 202–3; in Norway 508, 528, 546; in Poland 13, 49–52, 135, 178, 179, 180, 186–7, 246–9, 270, 346–7, 367, 451, 457, 526, 572, 610, 615; post-1848 622; protests 28, 179; Slav 687; and standardization of language 487; and written language 481

Nationalities Law (Austria-Hungary, 1868) 260

Native Americans 16, 242; in Canada 658

nature: conquest of 364–73; cult of 364; depiction in art 356; truth to 451

Nauru 649

Navarino, Battle of 58, 167

Nazi Party 277, 480, 715

Ndebele people 660

Nechayev, Sergei Gennadiyevich 612–13, 617; Catechism of a Revolutionary 612, 617

Negresti 105

Nelson, Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount 111, 406, 495, 629

Ne˘mcová, Božena 268

neo-Classicism 453

neo-Gothicism 453–4

Nepal 667

Neptune (planet) 388

Nertchinsk, silver mines 435

Netherlands 6, 23, 25, 70–71; agriculture 116; ban on absinthe 512; birth rates 408; and Britain 72; canals 152; Catholics in 466; colonies 15, 136, 267, 268; cycling in 383; Dutch settlers in Africa 660–61; economic downturn 569; emigration from 351; Housing Act (1901) 552; and Indonesia 639; Industrial Injuries Act (1901) 552; industrial production 132; industry 300; invasion of Belgium 72; Jews in 475, 476; legislation on capital punishment 434; life expectancy 404; malaria in 396; mental institutions in 425, 430; mortality crisis 125; national minorities in 572; poor relief 119, 552; population 569; population growth 123; potato blight in 123; Public Health Act (1901) 552; railways 151; serfdom in 88; standardization of time 391; States-General 70, 569; strikes 569; stunted growth in 127; traffic regulation 314; troops 12; under Austria 194; urban life 113; vigilante justice 343; Wilhelm II in exile in 715; windmills 132; women’s socialist movement 566

neuropsychology 423

Neva, river 150, 308–9

Neverov, Alexander Sergeyevich 485

New Caledonia 272, 436, 637

New Guinea (Kaiser-Wilhelmsland) 646, 647, 649

‘New Harmony’ commune 174

New Lanark cotton mill, Glasgow 174

‘New Morality’ movement (Germany) 543

New Orleans 632

New Pomerania 649

New Rhenish News: Review of Political Economy 270

New South Wales 658

New York 57, 272, 348, 624; Exhibition of the Industry of All Nations (1853) 353; high-rise buildings 385

New York Herald 632

New York World 625

New Zealand 351, 639–40, 657, 658, 682

Newcastle, Henry Pelham-Clinton, 4th Duke of 79

Newcastle-upon-Tyne 140, 328, 524; Infirmary 421

Newhaven 189

Newman, John Henry 456, 457

Newport, Monmouthshire 185

news agencies 392

newspapers see magazines and newspapers

Newton, Sir Isaac xviii, 394

Niagara Falls 304

Niboyet, Eugénie 268

Nice 25, 242, 243

Nicholas I, Tsar of Russia: becomes emperor 43–4; and beggars in St Petersburg 118; and Belgian Revolution 72–3; conservatism 46–7; death 236; and Decembrists 44, 47, 49–50; declares war on Ottoman Empire (1829) 58; and Franz Joseph 208; and Great Fire of Hamburg 371; and Habsburg Empire 233; and Hungarians 209; invasion of Danubian Principalities 233; invasion of Hungary 233; Organic Statutes 94; and Orthodox Church 459; on Ottoman Empire 231; and Ottomans 57, 233; and Polish uprising 49–52, 279; public executions in 433; as road traveller 149; on Schwarzenberg 240; and serfdom 87, 94

Nicholas II, Tsar of Russia: and assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand 706, 710; beard 502; and Black Hundreds 620;

coronation disaster 616; and Finland 547; fleet of cars 383; and freedom of religion 461; on Jews 620; micromanagement by 615–16; murder of 715; October Manifesto 543, 619; and Rasputin 620; and Russo-Japanese War 618; weakness as ruler 585, 620–21; and women’s education 507

Nicolle, Charles 400

Nicolson, Harold 710

Niemcewicz, Julian Ursyn 346–7; The Year 3333, or an Incredible Dream 347

Nietzsche, Friedrich 470, 501, 502, 543

Niger Coast Protectorate 662

Niger, river 628–9

Nigeria 647, 649, 657, 661; Muslims in 662; racist references to 683

Nightingale, Florence 235, 245, 419, 422

Nikola I, King of Montenegro 279, 692, 698

Nikolayev (Mikolaiv), Ukraine 285

Nile, river 626, 627, 634; Battle of 629; search for source 628–9, 630, 633

Nîmes 482

Niš 674

nitrogen 497

nitrous oxide (laughing gas) 418

Nobel, Alfred 301, 497, 687

Nobel Prizes 400, 497, 687

Nobiling, Karl 603–4

nobility: Baltic 99, 275–6, 353; British 278; clothing of 503; in Europe 278–82, 353; French 29, 43, 278, 279; German 36, 288, 319; Hungarian 117, 278, 287; Polish 97, 246–7, 279, 287; Romanian 95; Russian 43, 99, 278, 610; see also aristocracy

Noja, Italy 8

nomads 655, 658, 659

Nonconformity 457–8

Noon, Patrick 138

Nord, department 511–12

Nordau, Max 392, 501; Degeneration 416

Nordisk company 520

Norfolk 289, 457

Norman, Conolly 429

North German Confederation 257–8, 260; Bundesrat 259; Criminal Code 434; and Jews 476; Reichstag 257–8

North Pole 633

North Rhine-Westphalia 312

North Sea (German Ocean) 396

North-West Passage 633–4

Norway 26, 446; alcohol consumption in 512; Battle of the Square 225; birth rates 409; bourgeoisie 318; Constitution 546; Dissenter Law 467; drama in 524; emigration from 348–9; feminism in 546; hydroelectric power 304; independence from Sweden 546, 568; industrial production 132, 304; infant mortality 403; Jews in 476; legislature 570; mental institution 427; National Women’s Suffrage Association 546; nationalism in 508, 528, 546, 568; passport requirements 483; Radical Liberal Party 546; railways 152; religion in 458; Storting 546; and Sweden 26, 546, 558; universal male suffrage 568; whaling and fishing fleet 304; White Ribbon Society 508;, see also Scandinavia

Norwegian Folk Museum 533

Norwich 473

Nottingham 9, 56; Castle 79

Nottinghamshire 142

Nourrit, Adolphe 70

Novara, Battle of 214

novels see fiction

Novi Bazar 677

nuns, in hospitals 421–2

Nuremberg-Fürth railway 155

nursing 422 see also Nightingale, Florence

Nussdorf 195

nutrition: poor 402; rising standards 333–4

Nyetovtsy 459

Obrenović, Michael 62

Obrenović, Miloš 61–2

Obrid 462

Oceania, medical care in 682

O’Connell, Daniel 179, 500

O’Connor, Feargus 184, 185

Odessa 87, 618

O’Donnell, Leopoldo 223

officer corps 83, 249-50, 290, 480

oil production 298, 299

Oise canal 149

‘Old Believers’ 87, 324, 350, 459–61; Dukhobortsy 350; Dymiki 459; Filippovtsy 461; Nyetovtsy 459; Skoptsy 87, 324, 459–61

Old Czechs 585

Old Etonians football club 513

Oldenburg-Januschau, Elard Kurt Maria Fürchtegott von 281

Olivetti (typewriters) 304

Ollivier, Émile 249

Olmütz 206; Punctation of 250; Treaty of 233

Olszewski, Karol 497

Olympic Games 371

Olympic (ocean liner class) 395

Omdurman, Battle of 653

Omer Pasha 224–5

Omsk 435

open-field system 95

opera 70, 78, 81-2, 241, 448, 452, 503, 525–6, 527–8, 534-5, 619; houses 31, 38, 312, 316, 329, 535

ophthalmoscope 422

opium 427, 449; trade 125, 640, 650

Opium Wars 640

opportunity, freedom of 15

Orabi, Ahmed (Arabi Pasha) 646

Orangists 136

Oranienburg canal 150

Orenburg 131

Orient Express 379

Orléans: diocese of 468; house of 594; Second Battle of (1870) 264

Orléans-Paris railway line 165

Orsini, Felice 215, 241

Orşova 357

Orthodox Church 176, 204; in Balkans 688; in Greece 54, 461–2; Holy Synod 48, 461, 485, 614; and Jews 475; polyphony in services 459; in Russia 48, 62, 278, 324, 350, 457, 459–61, 467, 489, 611, 614; in Serbia 61–2; solidarity of 709

Oscar I, King of Sweden 225, 405

O’Shea, Kitty 577, 578

O’Shea, William 577, 578

Oslo: Royal Frederick University 495; Royal Palace 453

Osman Nuri Pasha 674–5

Ostend 152

Osterhammel, Jürgen, The Transformation of the World: A Global History of the Nineteenth Century xv–xvi, xviii

Ostrobothnia 128

Ostroleka, Battle of 50

Osuna, Mariano Téllez-Girón, 12th Duke of 286

Otis, Elisha Graves 385

Otto, King of Greece (earlier Prince Otto of Bavaria) 61, 223, 461–2

Otto-Peters, Louise 268, 508

Ottoman Empire: and Albania 223–4; and Algeria 64, 635–6; and Anglo-Ottoman Convention 133; army 224, 254, 670, 673–4, 688; and Balkan Wars 688–9, 693–6; banditry in 110; banking in 670; and Bosnia 88; and Bulgaria 111,

317, 462, 673; cholera in 402; Christians in 237, 474, 671; civil rights 670; collapse of 713, 715; Committee for Union and Progress (Young Turks) 689–90, 695; conflicts with Russia 27; Constans and 595; Constitution 675, 689; corporal punishment 435; corruption in 53, 438, 670, 689; in Crimean War 234–7; crop failures 671; and Cyprus 677; and Danubian Principalities 202–3; decline of 583, 624, 629, 645; economy 670; and Egypt 133; and Greek independence 53–62, 83; and Greek invasion of Crete 677; and Islam 83, 474, 671; and Jews 478; law codes 670; and Libya 692–3; looting of antiquities from 629–30; and Macedonian uprising 678–9; massacre of Chios 55–6, 370; and Military Frontier 9; Ministry of Finance 670; national identity 670; navy 235; Penal Code 435; and plague epidemic 8; prevention of disease in 398; prisons 438–9; Public Debt Administration 675; railways 670; religion in 670; and Romania 681; and Russia 57–9, 61–2, 231, 584; and Serbia 61–2; and Serbs 344, 673–4; as ‘sick man of Europe’ 231, 237; stability of borders after 1870 266; state debt 670, 675; stock exchange 670; Tanzimat reform programme 223–4, 670; taxation 671–3; threats to power of 18; universities 670; Young Turk Revolution 689–90, see also Russia, and Ottoman Empire; Turkey; Young Turks

Ouchy, Treaty of 693

Oude (Awadh) 682

Oudinot, Charles 216

Ouen, Declaration of 29

Ourcelle 264

Outer Hebrides 472

Owen, Robert 174

ownership, public 567

Oxford, University of 456, 496, 574

Oxford History of Modern Europe xvii

Oxo meat extract 301

oxygen 497

Oyo 18

Pacific 631, 641, 649, 652

pacifism 543, 545, 684, 703

paddle steamers 150

Padua 626, 628; University 59

paedophilia 417

Paganini, Niccolò, Caprices 449

pain, management of 418–20, 442

painting see art

Palacký, František 204, 260

Palatinate 376

Palau 649, 652

Pale of Settlement 474–5, 476, 615

Palermo 40, 159, 214, 243

Palestine 53, 447, 478

palm-oil production 654, 661

Palmerston, Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount 180, 226–7, 228, 236, 240, 357, 575; on Schleswig-Holstein question 252

Pamvotis, Lake 55

Pan-Germanism 479, 499, 609, 622

pan-Islamism 689

Pan-Slavism 671–3, 674, 677, 709

Panhard motor cars 381

Pankhurst, Adele 540

Pankhurst, Christabel 540; The Great Scourge and How to End It 416–17

Pankhurst, Emmeline 537–40

Pankhurst, Richard 538

Pankhurst, Sylvia 540

panopticum 436

Papal infallibility, doctrine of 462, 464

Papal States: administration 180–81; Austria and 39, 40; carbonari and 74–5; Cavour and 242; education in 41; Gregory XVI and 180; incorporation into Kingdom of Italy 463; and Jesuits 41; and Jews 41; Mazzini and 215; and Napoleon’s reforms 38; Pius IX and 180–81, 190, 193, 213; Rossi and 213

paper industry 303, 304, 305

Paraguay 16

Parent-Duchâtelet, Alexandre 412

Paris: Arc de Triomphe 404; art in 530; attack on Napoleon III 241; Bakunin in 176, 177, 211; Bois de Boulogne 361, 513; Bon Marché 328; Boulevard du Temple 67; boulevards 312–13; Cabaret des Assassins (later Lapin Agile) 516; Café Terminus 562; Carmen in 526; Le Chat Noir 516; church attendance in 467; Club for the Emancipation of Women 268–9; Commune 271–2, 340, 521, 554, 559, 560, 561, 599, 644; Le Croissant restaurant 711; Edward VII in 413, 580; Eiffel Tower 313, 393, 643; exhibition of African art 534; Exposition (1889) 313, 643; feminist demonstrations in 542; fire brigade 373; Folies Bergère 516; football in 513; funeral of Victor Hugo 404; Gare St-Lazare 415, 562; gas lighting 314; Gautier on 489; ‘Haussmannization’ 312–13, 316; hegemony of 605; hospital 397; Hôtel de Ville 65; Île de la Cité 312; infant mortality 332; Jardin de Tivoli 386; Jardin Zoologique d’Acclimatation 361; July Revolution (1830) 63–8, 70, 172, 185, 186, 593; ‘June Days’ (1848) 188–9, 200–201, 215, 220, 225, 636; looted antiquities removed to 629; Luxembourg Palace 200; Maxim’s 290; medical students 322–3; Métro 315; military uprisings in 32; Montfaucon 309, 313; Montmartre 170, 516, 711; Moulin Rouge 516; municipal council 560; newspaper circulation 514; Notre-Dame, cathedral 454; Observatory 6, 393; occupation of 22, 173; Opéra 31, 312; Palais de Justice 69; Palais du Louvre 65; Palais Royal 64; Panthéon 404; Place de la Concorde 263; Porte de Saint-Cloud 272; prostitution in 412, 415; railway termini 312; Russian Embassy 413; Salpêtrière hospital 430; Samaritaine 329; scientific expedition from 376; Second Treaty of (1815) 20, 23; September Massacres 38; sewers 313; Siege of 264, 361, 386; smallpox in 8; social life in 290; Sorbonne 32, 323, 497, 506, 623; Théâtre des Champs-Élysées 535–6; as time centre 393–4; Town Hall 69; Treaty of (1856) 95, 236, 242, 671; Tuileries 65, 189; under martial law 201; University see Sorbonne; urban improvement 312–13; waste disposal 309; women in 268; World Exhibition (1900) 384; Clara Zetkin in 565

Paris and Lyon Railway 173

Paris-St Germain railway line 155–6

Paris-Rouen railway line 154

Parkinson, James, and Parkinson’s Disease 430

Parma 193, 243, 527; Duchy of 75

Parnell, Charles Stewart 571, 576–7, 577–8

Pašić, Nikola 691, 707

Paskevich, Ivan Fyodorovich 235

Passek, Vadim Vasilevich 368

passport requirements 483

Pasteur, Louis 402, 421, 493

pasteurization 402

Pastukhov, Nicholas 514

patriotism 12, 484, 491

patronage 322, 447

Pavel I, Tsar of Russia 22, 89

Paxton, Joseph 292

Peabody, George 313

peace: demonstrations 711, 714; effects of 654; efforts towards 687; see also pacifism

Pearl Harbor, bombing of 618

Pearson, Karl 685, 686

peasants: in Baltic States 275–8, 288, 353; as farmers 60, 78, 98–9, 100–102, 117, 283–4 (see also serfdom); Greek 60; and introduction of potatoes 60; in Italy 108–10; and land reform 52; as landowners 98; and liberals 95; redemption fees paid by 98–9, 103, 104, 131, 287; revolts by 102–13, 168, 186–7, 221–2, 570–71, 621; in Romania 104–5; in Russia 85–8, 98, 102–4; self-sufficiency of 117; in Sicily 111–12; in Spain 107, 108; see also serfs; sharecroppers

Pease, Sir Alfred 362

Pecchio, Giuseppe 17

Pedro I (Dom Pedro), Emperor of Brazil 16–17, 73–4

Pedro II (Dom Pedro), Emperor of Brazil 73

Peel, Sir Robert 126, 184, 185, 227, 228

Pelew Islands see Palau

Pelloutier, Fernand 550

Pelloux, Luigi 591, 592, 595, 621

Peloponnese 53, 54–5, 57, 58

penal policy 434–43

Peninsular War 16, 37, 368

‘penny dreadfuls’ 515

‘penny press’ 514

penny-farthing 383

Penrhyn Quarry, Bethesda, Wales 295

pensions 74, 158, 528, 551-2, 596, 648

Pentrich Revolution 9

Penza 131

People’s Reprisal 612

Pepe, Guglielmo 193, 217

Pérez Galdos, Benito, Mendizabal (novel) 322

The Perfumed Garden (erotic text) 630

Perier, Casimir 31, 65, 66

Perkin, William 301

Perm 102

Persia 400, 631, 677; Qajar dynasty 22

Peru 16, 116, 171, 396

Pest 369, 531

Pestel, Pavel 43, 44

Peter (Petar) I, King of Serbia 691

Peter (Pyotr) I (the Great), Tsar of Russia 47, 49

Peterloo massacre 537

Peters, Carl 647–8

Le Petit Journal 514

petty bourgeoisie 326–31, 354, 410, 595; Marx on 326

Peugeot 381

Pfeiffer, Ida 403, 631

phalansteries 172, 173–4, 446

pharmaceutical companies 301–2

Philadelphia: Walnut Street prison 436, 437; World’s Fair (1876) 353

Philae 628, 630

philanthropy 552–3; female 505, 509

Philaret, Metropolitan (Vasily Mikhailovich Drozdov) 461

Philhellenism 56–7

Philippe of Orléans, Count of Paris 594, 595

Philippe, Prince, Duke of Orléans 594

Philippe-Égalité (Louis Philippe, Duke of Orléans) 64

Philippines 652

Phönix Ironworks 303

phonograph 518

phosphorus, white, hazards of 335

photography xviii, 443, 519, 520, 530; aerial 386; of deceased 405

phrenology 423–4

phylloxera 112, 296, 570

physics 396, 497, 498

Physiocracy 144

Picasso, Pablo xix; Les Demoiselles d’Avignon 534; Glass and Bottle of Suze 533

Piedmont, Piedmont-Sardinia, Kingdom of: in Battle of Custoza 214, 217; in Battle of Novara 214; Carlo Alberto and 180, 181, 192, 194, 213–14; Cavour and 229; Constitution 589; cotton mills in 135; dominance among Italian states 605; insurrection in 40; invasion of Venetia 255; and Italian unification 193, 222; Mazzini and 179; railways in 151; and Swiss Confederation 25; in Wars of Italian Unification 27, 242–3

pilferage 341

pilgrimages 455, 466, 637

piracy 54, 56, 57, 60–61, 635, 639

Pirogov, Nikolai Ivanovich 419

Pissarro, Camille 530

Pittsburgh, Nickelodeon cinema at 519

Pius IX, Pope: and cult of Immaculate Conception 455; Declaration of Papal Infallibility 464; election as Pope 180–81; flight to Naples 213, 215; and Jews in Rome 216–17, 476; Napoleon III and 245–6, 260; and Papal States 190, 193, 463, 465; and powers of Church 240; Providentissimus Deus (encyclical) 464; Syllabus of Errors 463–4

Pius VII, Pope 38

plague xix, 8–9, 667; bubonic 127, 399

Plamínková, Františka 545

plantations: rubber and palm oil 654; sugar 100, 112, 122, 226, 267, 283, 640

Platts (Oldham) 300

plebiscites 12, 218, 230, 245, 249, 292, 463

Plehve, Vyecheslav Konstantinovich 621

Plekhanov, Georgi Valentinovich 613, 617

Plevna, Siege of 674–5

Plombières 242, 245

Plovdiv 317; Battle of 675

Plunkett, Horace 349

pneumoconiosis 335

Po, river, estuary 369

Pobedonostsev, Konstantin Petrovich 461, 614, 616

poetry: on death 406; in France 531

pogroms 350, 475, 480

Poincaré, Raymond 706

Poland: agriculture in 97; antisemitism in 347; army 49, 51, 52, 83; bourgeoisie 319; Catholicism in 457; censorship in 51; Constitution 43; education 248; famine in 129; first zoo 361; football in 513; Hegelianism in 175; invasion by Napoleon 347; Jews in 474, 475; landowners 246; League of Free Poles 49; military conscription 247; Muslims in 224; national consciousness xvi; National Patriotic Society 49–50; nationalism in 13, 49–52, 80, 135, 178, 179, 180, 186–7, 246–9, 270, 346–7, 367, 451, 457, 526, 572, 610, 615; nobility 279; peasants in 221; peasants as landowners 98; Poles in Napoleon’s army 1, 3, 49; Polish Commonwealth 347; potato cultivation 122; and Russia 25, 235, 246; Russification 248, 615; serfdom in 15, 88, 94; szlachta 279;

taxation in 247; textile production 134, 135–6; Tsar Nicholas I and 49; Uniate Church in 461; universities in 495–6, 497; uprising (1795) 347; uprising (1830-1) 50–52, 76, 136, 181, 209, 231, 246, 347, 401, 435, 457; uprising (1863) 247–8, 270, 346, 435, 457, 490, 496, 572; urban life 113; ‘Whites’ and ‘Reds’ 247; wolves in 359; see also Congress Poland; Poles; Warsaw

Polenz, Wilhelm von, The Land of the Future 623

Poles: in Dual Monarchy 583; exiled to Siberia 435; in Galicia 584; in Germany 601; and typhus outbreak 399; in Upper Silesia 488; as workers 338

police forces 440–42, 556–7; military model 441

Polignac, Jules, Prince de 32, 63, 64, 66

poliomyelitis 399

Polish Agricultural Society 246–7

Polish (language) 488, 490

Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth 49, 451, 474, 488; political economy 121

pollution: atmospheric 374, 399, 442; of rivers 310

polonium, discovery of 497

Polovtsov, Alexander Alexandrovich 130

Polynesia 640

Pomerania 25, 338

poor laws 118–21, 124, 126, 183–4, 425, 552

Poor Man’s Guardian 80

popular culture, rural 510–11

population: of European countries 21, 116, 351–2; growth xix, 27, 102, 103, 114–15, 122, 306–7, 313–14; of Russia 352, 433; of USA 352; world 352

pornography 275, 410

Port Arthur, Battle of 618

Port Dinorwic 295

Port Essington 630

Porthmadog 295

Portici (Naples) 151

Porto 73

Portugal: army 42; and Carlist uprisings 108; and Chinese treaty ports 650; Civil War 209; colonies 25, 283, 648, 649; emigration from 351; French loss of 18; industry 297; Jews in 476; literary realism in 524; Miguelists 73–4; national minorities in 572; passport requirements 483; as province of Brazil 16–17; revolution (1910) 569; revolutionaries 42; serfdom 105; succession 73–4; superstition in 472; tenant farmers 105–6; traffic regulation 314; under Duke of Saldanha 229

Posadowsky-Wehner, Arthur von 604–5

Posen, Grand Duchy of (later Province of) 25, 203, 465

positivism 173, 498–9

post offices 330

Post-Impressionism 532

postal service 328, 380

postcards 380

potatoes 139, 283; introduction of 60, 122–4; potato blight 123–4, 187, see also famine

Potemkin, battleship 618

Potocki, Count Józef 359, 360

Potsdam 155

Pouget, Émile 550

poverty: and alcoholism 431; among factory workers 139; attics and 385; depicted in art 521; depicted in fiction 522–3; and disease 397, 401–2; and emigration 346, 351; and infant mortality 403; and population growth xix; relief measures 10, 117, 118–19, 124, 126, 552–3, 567; in Russia 43; see also poor laws

power, definitions of xx–xxi

power loom xxi

Poznań (Posen) 361

Prague (Prag, Praha) 10, 164, 204–5, 206, 483; Club of Slavic Women 269; Hradčany Castle 207; Pan-Slav Congress 211; Peace of 257; water supply 311; see also Bohemia

Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood 521

Predappio 589

pregnancy, unwanted 410

preservationism 454

press: freedom of 31, 77, 78, 79, 186, 190, 567, 686; political 266; popular 514–15

Pressburg (Bratislava, Pozsony) 191

Pretoria 661

priests: and antisemitism 475; Austria and 466; Bismarck and 465; in France 468; Old Believers and 459–61; persons disguised as 213, 563, 590; in Russia 467–8; secular 469; and songbooks 510; in Spain 467; and Third Republic 464; tithes paid to 89; see also anticlericalism; Jesuits

Primitive Methodists 457

primitivism 534

Prince-Smith, John 146

Princip, Gavrilo 88, 705

printing presses 353, 514, 523

prisons 424, 436–9, 539; population of 438; see also penal policy

Prodameta 299

professions, professionalization 318–26, 353; codes of conduct 324–5

professors and teachers 319, 320, 325

progress: as concept 394, 489–90; as linear in nature 686

proletariat 331, 555; emergence of 165, 338, 339; women’s struggle 565, see also working class

property 15, 175, 177, 325, 547; distinctions in 342

prostitution: in Britain 415; Josephine Butler and 414; child 414; enforced 565; and feminism 414, 548; in fiction 413; in France 412, 414–15; in Germany 411–12; in high society 413; licensed 414, 508, 542; in London 169; in Madrid 411; male 415; in Paris 415; in St Petersburg 411; and syphilis 412

protection rackets 341, 345

Protestantism: and antisemitism 478; in Britain 456–7; in Denmark 485; in France 38; in Hungary 181, 459; in Ireland 457, 571; and missionary societies 469; in Netherlands 70; and Parnell 578; Pius IX on 463; in Prussia 457; Swedish 348; in Switzerland 182, 459; Ulster 707; and women 508

Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion 480

Proudhon, Pierre-Joseph 177, 201, 210, 269, 563, 566; What is Property? 175

Proust, Marcel 290

prudery, Victorian 410, 411

Prus, Bolesław, The Doll 526

Prussia: and action against revolution 77; adult male suffrage 566; agriculture in 100–101; alcohol consumption in 511; army 199, 249–50, 250, 255–7, 280, 290, 386, 480, 526, 605–6; and Austro-Prussian War 254–7, 465, 671; in Battle of the Nations 21; birth rate 127; Bismarck on 252; Calvinism in 458; canals in 149–50; capital punishment in 434; census (1871) 429–30; coal production 145–6, 147; in coalition of armies 3; Committees of Public Safety 212;

Constitution 210, 212, 554; Council of State 196; Criminal Law Code 345; crop failure in 123; cultivation of land 358; defeats by Napoleon 22–3; Department of Trade and Industry 145; Diet 196; dominance among German states 605; draft constitution 196; East-Elbian 98, 100, 101, 286; 1848 revolution 195–6, 250; electorate 605; fire brigade 441; French opinion of 687; General Law Code 458; General Staff 262; and German Confederation 25, 28, 33, 250, 251; and German nation state 222, 233, 600; guilds 146; Gymnasium 491; Hegel on 175; Herrenhaus (Upper Chamber) 280, 600; and Holstein 253; and Holy Alliance 22–3; hunting rights in 362; ignorance of Hungary 356; invasion of Holstein 253; and Italian wars of independence 242; Kultusministerium (Ministry of Spiritual, Educational and Medical Affairs) 458; landowners 115, 285–6; liberalism in 182–3; literacy in 481; Lutheranism in 458; medical profession 323; military conscription 250; military strength 262; militia oath 9; Ministry of the Interior 494; mortality crisis 125; municipal administrative reforms 121; national curriculum 491; Nicholas I and 51; nobility 279; Parliament 210, 257, 281, 567–8; and Poland 178; police 250, 602; and Polish nationalism 180, 186–7, 490, 572; poor-law administration 441; population 430, 433; prisons 437, 441; Progressive Party 249, 250–51; property franchise 543; public executions in 432, 433; and Quadruple Alliance 36; railways 153; Realschulen 491; reforms in 18–19, 88; religion in 458; rise of 499; and Schleswig-Holstein 199; secondary schools in 491; Seehandlung (state holding company) 147; serfdom in 88, 96, 99, 287; Statute of Farm Servants (1810) 101; tariff barriers 135, 146, 240; telegraph system 157; troops 12, 14; typhus in 399–400; United Diet 182–3, 195; Upper Chamber 600; vaccination in 398; in Wars of German Unification 27; water supply 317; women in 508; and women in politics 269; and women’s suffrage 566; wood theft 103, 342–3

Prussian Overseas Trading Corporation 146–7

Pryce-Jones, Pryce 328

Przhevalsky, Nicholas Mikhailovich 634

Psara 61

psychiatry 424, 424–5, 427–8, 430–31, 434

psychoanalysis 417–18

public conveniences 310

Puccini, Giacomo: La Bohème 525; The Girl of the Golden West 525–6; Madam Butterfly 525–6; Tosca 525–6

Puchner, Anton von 202

puerperal fever 420

Puerto Real 4

Puerto Rico 652

Pugin, Augustus 453–4; Examples of Gothic Architecture 453

Pullman, George 379

Punch 296, 638

Punjab 638, 667

punishment, capital 197, 201, 433-4, 435, 436, 439-40; corporal 87, 89, 91, 101, 434-5, 440, 492, 493, 620; see also exile

Purlevsky, Savva Dmitriyevich 85–8, 93, 94, 324

Pusey, Edward 456, 457

Pushkin, Alexander Sergeyevich 52, 290, 451, 452; Eugene Onegin 148

Puskás, Tivadar 392

‘putting out’ system 132

Pyrenees 359, 364, 365, 368, 481, 510

Qianlong Emperor 18

Quadruple Alliance 36

Quakers 437

quarantine 8–9, 60, 399

quatrain fever 396

quinine 396

Qur’an 474

rabies 402

Rachmaninov, Sergei Vasilievich 536

racial theory xv, 632, 655-6, 684–7

racism: in Britain 683–4; and concepts of identity 681; scientific 686

Radetzky von Radetz, Joseph 108, 192, 193–4, 205, 213, 214, 217

radicalism: and antisemitism 10; in art 532; Asquith and 580; in Austria-Hungary 194, 205, 246, 582, 586; Bakunin and 210-11; in Belgium 466; in Britain 16, 78, 79, 122, 184-5, 576, 580; in Bulgaria 688; throughout Europe 13, 17, 82, 219, 229; and feminism 508, 538, 542-3, 545, 547-8, 566; in France 69, 369, 271, 521, 550, 559-60, 566; in Germany 177, 190, 196, 199-200, 210, 220, 399, 605, 609; Gorky and 326; and Hegelianism 175, 176; in Ireland 577; in Italy 217, 592; and military coups 46; and nationalism 178; in Norway 546; in Poland 50; in Portugal 42; and Protestantism 467; in Prussia 88; radical Democrats 194, 196, 199-200, 210, 554; and revolutionaries 557; in Romania 202; in Russia 611, 620; and slavery 166, 267; and secret societies 32, 34, 48; in Serbia 691; in Sicily 214; in Spain 74; and unions 550

radio xviii, 353, 443

radio-active half-life 498

radioactivity 497

radium, discovery of 497

Radlett, Hertfordshire 277

Raffles, Sir Stamford 361

Raglan, Fitzroy Somerset, 1st Baron 234

Raiffeisen, Friedrich Wilhelm 284

railways: accidents 154, 155–6; in Austria 240; in battle 254, 255; in Belgium 152; boom in 151–8, 223, 230, 295, 297, 300; in Britain 150–56; and car ownership 383; carriages, restaurant and sleeping cars 379; Cavour and 180; and coal imports 303; European network 189, 323; expansion of 379–80; fatalities 154, 155; in France 186, 230; horse-railway 151; in Hungary 181; impact of 524; and improved communications 510; invention of locomotive 150; investment in 145, 152–3; in Italy 151–2; in Kenya 667; major building projects 377–8; military use 391, 688; navvies 154–5; newsstands at stations 328, 514; and passport requirements 483; in Portugal 229; races to Scotland 394; in Russia 130–31, 236, 298; and slate-quarrying in Wales 294–5; in Spain 152; speculation in 153, 184, 305, 475; state influence on 147; steam 150–51; timetables 390–91; underground 302, 315–16; Welsh narrow gauge 294-5; workers’ conditions 550; workers’ strikes 548

Ramesses II, bust of 626–7

Ranjit Singh 638

Ranke, Leopold von xv, 452–3, 499

Rasputin, Grigori Yefimovich 620

Rastatt 212

Rathenau, Emil 303

Rathenau, Walther 303

rationalism: and Enlightenment 81, 424, 449; philosophy of 494; in religion 457

Rattazzi, Urbano 589

Ravachol, François 562

Ravel, Maurice: Miroirs 531; Trois Poèmes de Stéphane Mallarmé 531

Rawlinson, Robert 154

Razumovsky, Prince Andrey Kirillovich 20

reading clubs and societies 516

Realism 520–28; in art 520–22, 526, 530; decline of 531; in drama 524–5; and emotion 524; literary 522–5; in opera 525–6

referendums 12, 230, 512

reform: economic, social and administrative 229; politics of 220, 353

Reformation 34, 456

Reformed Church 119

refrigeration 332

Reggio Calabria 371

Rehbein, Franz 337–8

Rehoboth 655–6

Reims 135

Reinsurance Treaty 698, 699

relativity, theory of xix, 395–6

religion 454–63; in art 521; in Britain 456–7; challenges to 443; continuity and change in 354; conversion 446, 461; and crime 345; cults, visions and revelations 454–5; and death 406, 407; in France 468; freedom of 15, 29, 181, 197, 458, 461, 476–7, 569, 678; minorities xix; and papacy 455; and power xx; and rationalism 81; relations between Church and State 466, 567; and Romanticism 454; and science 469; toleration of 35, 215, see also Catholic Church; Islam; Orthodox Church; Protestantism, etc.

Rembieliński, Rajmund, Lord Salisbury 135

Remscheid 312

Renan, Ernest 685

Renault 381

Renoir, Jean 290

Renoir, Pierre-Auguste 530

Repin, Ilya Yefimovich, Barge Haulers on the Volga 522

Republicanism 12, 32, 67, 69; democratic 219, 266

respiratory disease 137–8, 375

Ressel, Josef 294

Restoration 13, 37, 46, 63, 76, 81, 229, 481; civil service under 322; and liberals 17, 76; literacy under 481; state structures xviii

‘resurrection men’ 120–21

retailers see shops and shopkeepers

Réunion 632

Reuter, Paul Julius von 392

Reuters 130

revolution, permanent 619

revolutionaries, revolutionary movements 186–99, 612; ‘Black Partition’ 613; in Britain 45–6; conspiratorial 611; in France 188–9, 200; in Germany 190–91, 195–7, 204; in Habsburg Empire 191–2, 194–5, 203; ideals of 63; in Italy 40, 189–90; ‘Land and Liberty’ 613, 616; Latin American 17; ‘The People’s Right’ 616; ‘The People’s Will’ 614, 615; in Poland 186–7; in Russia 43–4; in Spain 38, 41, 74, 82; and SPD left wing 557; Union of Socialist Revolutionaries 616; in Venice 192–4

Revolutions of 1830 63-5, 69, 73, 593; see also Paris, July Revolution (1830); Poland, uprising (1830-1)

Revolutions of 1848 158, 186–219, 231, 346, 441, 508, 567, 568; and abolition of titles of nobility 279; aftermath 219–28, 229, 266–7, 268, 552, 567; and antisemitism in Germany 570; in Austria 205–7; and Berlin police force 441; and franchise 569; Hungarian surrender 357; in Hungary 202, 205–6, 207–8; in Moldavia and Wallachia 202–3; Polish nationalists in 346; and Prussian Parliament 568; in Serbia 203–4; start of 189, 190; and women’s rights 268–9; see also French Revolution; Paris, ‘June Days’ (1848)

Reykjavik 317

Reynolds, George, The Mysteries of London 167

Rheinische Zeitung 177

Rhine Province 342

Rhine, river 6, 10, 14, 80, 146, 149, 152, 396; engineering project 370

Rhine-Hessen 212

Rhineland 4–5, 7, 25, 28, 210, 212, 221, 284, 320, 425, 629

Rhineland-Westphalia 252

Rhodes, Cecil 648, 683

Rhône, river 149

Ricasoli, Baron Bettino 589

rice production 668

Richardson, Mary 539

Richelieu, Armand-Emmanuel de Vignerot du Plessis, Duc de 31

Richer, Léon 508

Riehl, Wilhelm Heinrich 166, 339, 367

Riezler, Kurt 686

Riga 10, 461

rights: civil and human 268; women’s 15, 171, 268–9, 503, 504, 505–7

Rimsky-Korsakov, Nikolai Andreyevich 619

Rinderpest 655

Rio de Janeiro 8, 16

riots 8, 9–10, 45, 46, 49–50, 64, 67, 75, 107, 162, 165, 201, 218, 225, 261, 462, 475, 484, 496

rivers 10, 149, 369–70; and flooding 369–70; pollution of 310; see also canals

Rizvanbegović, Ali 224, 225

roads 10, 145, 147–9, 189, 200, 229, 314, 323; and motoring 381

Roberts, Frederick Roberts, 1st Earl 661

Roberts, Richard 134

Robespierre, Maximilien 74, 75, 221

Robinson, William 364

Rochdale 156; Equitable Pioneers’ Society 184

Rochebrune, François 248

Rocket locomotive 155

Rodin, Auguste: The Age of Bronze 521; The Gates of Hell 521; The Kiss 521; The Man with the Broken Nose 521; The Thinker 521

Roermond 466

Rolls, Charles 382

Rolls-Royce 382

Roman Republic (1849) 215, 216, 217, 241, 243

Romania: abolition of serfdom in 95, 97; in Balkan Wars 696; boyars 279, 290; Constitution 681; and Convention of Ackerman 58; cultivation of land 358; emigration from 94; emigration to 350; Field of Liberty 202; folk song 510; formation of 236; franchise 568; gypsies of 88–9; ID requirements 483; independence 677; Jews in 475, 476, 478, 678; as kingdom 679–81; legal code 504; Mountain Corps 105; and

nationalist movements 202–3, 681; neutrality 681; and Orient

Express 379; Peasant Bank 105; peasant revolts in 104–5, 568, 570; peasants as landowners in 98; Petersburg Hotel, Iaşi 202; railways 152; and Russia 59; and Russo-Turkish War 674; succession 261; tariff barriers 285; treaty with Russia 681; see also Danubian Principalities

Romanians 207, 208, 209, 260; in Hungary 201, 202, 583, 586, 587; literacy among 481

Romanov dynasty 43

Romansch 488

Romanticism: in art 449–50, 451; decline of 520, 522, 528; and emotion 500, 524; in fiction 450, 452; in Germany 623; and Greek uprising 81–2; late 535, 536; in music 448–9, 450, 451–2, 453, 529–30, 535, 536; and opium 449; and Realism 520–21, 525; religion and 454; Romantic hero 450

Rome: beggars in 7–8; as capital of Italy 589; fire hydrants 374; ghettoes in 475–6; Mazzini and Garibaldi in 216; papal territories 260; as part of Kingdom of Italy 476; Quirinal Palace 213; street lighting 152; see also Roman Republic; Vatican City

Romero Alpuente, Juan 38

Röntgen, Wilhelm 497

Roosevelt, Theodore ‘Teddy’ 360

Rorke’s Drift, Battle of 660

Rosebery, Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of 577

Rosetta Stone 629

Ross of Mull 124

Ross, Sir Ronald 396

Rossetti, Dante Gabriel 521

Rossi, Count Pellegrino 213

Rossini, Gioacchino 448; Guillaume Tell 78, 241; The Italian Girl in Algiers 527

Rother, Christian von 147

Rothes 368

Rothschild family 477

Rotteck, Karl von 75

rotten boroughs 79

Rotterdam 119

Rotwelsch 341

Roubaix 135, 336

Rouen 154, 164; Cathedral 530; revolt by registered prostitutes 415

‘rough music’ 343; see also charivari, Haberfeldtreiben

Rousseau, Jean-Jacques 444

Roussiers, Paul de 622

‘Rover’ safety bicycle 383

Royal Bavarian Bank 147

Royal Niger Company 647, 661–2

Royce, Henry 382

Rózsa, Sándor 110, 111

rubber production and trade 409, 654, 663–4

Rüdesheim, ‘Germania’ statue 564

Rudolf, Crown Prince of Austria 583

Rugby School, Warwickshire 493

Ruge, Arnold 177

Ruhr industrial district: coal and iron production 144, 147, 293; food in 333; foreign workers in 338; population increase 306; and Prussia 25; Schalke 04 football club 513; smoke and pollution 374; strikes in 548, 549; tuberculosis in 332

Ruhr, river 309

Rumpelmayer, Viktor 317

rural population xix, xxii

Ruskin, John 310, 451, 533

Russell, Lord John 80

Russell, William Howard 237, 392

Russia: and action against revolution 77; agriculture in 102–3, 129–30, 283, 299; and Alaska 641; alcohol consumption 512; Alexander Nevsky Temperance Society 467; All-Russian Union of Equal Rights for Women 544; antisemitism 401, 711; aristocracy 19, 281, 287; armed forces 235–6, 247; army 706; arson in 103; art in 522, 526; and assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand 706, 707; autocracy in 22; and Balkan Wars 696, 698, 706; Baltic fleet 618; bears in 359; and Belgian Revolution 71; birth rates 408, 409; Black Hundreds 620, 622; and Black Sea 671; Bolsheviks 617; bourgeoisie 324–5, 326; and Britain 52; bureaucracy 48; Cadet (Constitutional Democrat) Party 281, 544, 619, 620; canals 150; capital punishment in 433; and Caucasus 671; censorship 48–9, 225, 610, 620; and China 699; cholera in 401; Church schools 485; civil society in 225; coal production 298, 299; Code (1836) 505; and Congress of Vienna 23, 49; Conservatives 620; constitution 43; corporal punishment 435, 620; Corps of Gendarmes 440; corruption in 238, 325, 442; cotton industry in 136, 298; Council of Ministers 619, 710; Council of State 19, 48, 236; crime in 342; in Crimean War 27, 234–9, 254, 671; crop failure in 129–30; cultivation of land 358; and Danubian Principalities 202–3; death in 406; death rates 131, 404; deforestation 368; drunkenness in 511; Duma (Parliament) 281, 544, 619–20, 621; economy 19, 298; and education in Poland 496; educational system 22, 47, 238, 610–11, 620; Emancipation Edict (1861) 97, 102; emigration from 350; emigration to 8, 350; employment of women 336; as enemy of Britain 699; engineering 324; and Ethiopian Army 652; expansionism 583, 640–41, 699; fairs and ceremonies 511; fall of empire 715; famine in xix, 128, 129–31; February Revolution 620; feminism in 543–4; and Finland 546–7; fires in 373; foreign service 34; and France 697, 698, 709–10; franchise 570; and Franco-Prussian War 260; and fur trade 641; future of 489; German Social Democrats and 711–12; grain, export of 123, 130, 284–5, 299; and Habsburg Empire 239; health insurance 620; and Holy Alliance 22–3; ID requirements 483; Imperial Academy of Arts 522; Imperial Army 14, 54, 71, 86; Imperial Chancery 47–8; Imperial Personal Garage 383; Imperial Philanthropic Society 118; improvements in hygiene 400; and India 699; industrialization 298–9; intelligentsia 47, 176, 324, 496, 610–11; intervention in Austria-Hungary (1848) 233; invasion by Napoleon 1–4, 22, 43, 233–4; invasion of Hungary 233; iron production 298; Jews in 299, 350, 474, 476; judicial power in 99, 238; landowners 285; lawyers 324; League for Women’s Equality 544; legal system 47; legislature 610, 611; liberalism in 43, 614; life expectancy 404; literacy in 238–9, 481, 620; literature 167, 610; livestock farming in 115; and Louis-Philippe 69; and Macedonia 688; and Manchuria 649; mass trials 613; medical profession 324; and Mediterranean 624;

melodrama 518; Mensheviks 617; and Middle East 699; military medical academies 324; military planning 709; military service 238–9; Ministry of State Domains 115; mobilization plans 709; monks and nuns in 468; Lola Montez in 413; Narodniki (Populists) 613, 616; nationalism in music in 527–8; naval power 233, 235; newspapers 514; nobility 43, 278, 610; October Manifesto 619, 620; Octobrists 620; oil production 299; opera in 527–8; Orthodox Church in 48, 62, 278, 324, 350, 457, 459–61, 467, 468, 611, 614; and Ottoman Empire 57–9, 61–2, 231, 584; Pale of Settlement 350; and peace conferences 687; Peasant Land Bank 101, 104; peasant revolts 102–4, 168; peasants in 98, 117, 611, 613, 616, 619; pogroms in 480; and Poland 25, 235, 246; police 47, 238, 442, 615, 619; and Polish nationalism 180, 490, 572; political exiles 435 (see also Siberia, exile in); political parties 619–20; poor-relief organizations 118; population 409; population growth 687; population strength 21, 22, 102, 103; post-revolutionary 266; potato revolts 122; and power 18; press 709; prisons 438; professionals 324–5; public executions in 433; and Quadruple Alliance 36; radicalism in 225; railways 151, 153, 236, 298, 377–8; raznochintsy 610; reactions to declaration of First World War 714–15; redemption payments by peasants 97, 100, 101, 103, 104, 131, 287, 619; reform of education in 19; reforms by Alexander II 237–8, 246, 278, 496, 610, 611, 614, 671; religion in 459–61, 467–8; religious observance in 468; Revolution (1905) 278, 433, 461, 468, 544, 546, 570; Revolution (1917) 168, 221, 277; revolutionaries in 42–4, 612–14, 616; Right (party) 619; road travel 148–9; and Romania 681; rural poverty 299; and Schleswig-Holstein 199; secondary schools in 491, 610; secularization in 466, 468; seizure of land 103; and Serbia 696, 697; shipyards 299; Social Democratic Labour Party 617; Social Revolutionary Party 616, 618–19; Society for the Dissemination of Useful Books 515; Society for the Propagation of Religious and Moral Enlightenment in the Spirit of the Orthodox Church 467; Soviet (of workers’ deputies) 619, 620; stability of borders after 1870 266; steel production 299; strikes 548, 618–19, 620; students 610–13, 615; sugar refineries in Tsarist Empire 122, 298; Supreme Committee for Differentiation and Care of Beggars 118; tariff barriers 285, 298; taxation in 324; technological institutes 324; telegraph system 157; terrorism in 616, 617, 621; theatres and outdoor entertainments 517–18; timber, export of 367; trade and industry in 88; trade unions 615; traffic regulation 314; and Treaty of Berlin 677; treaty with Romania 681; tsarist 22, 49, 97, 122, 131, 168, 178, 275, 298, 572, 610–21; Tsaritsyn Arsenal 299; and Ukrainian nationalism 490; and ultimatum to Serbia 707; Union of Unions 544, 618; universities 47, 324, 496, 497, 610–11, 620; urban life 113; vigilante justice (vozhdenie) 343–4; weights and measures in 377; women in 505; women studying abroad 506; wood theft 103; workers’ housing 306; zemstva (assemblies) 131, 238, 324, 485, 616–17, 618, 619, 620; see also revolutionary movements; serfdom, in Russia

Russian (language) 615

Russian-American company 641

Russians, and Chinese treaty ports 650

Russo-Japanese War 103, 377, 618, 621, 699

Russo-Turkish War 62, 400, 674–5, 681

Rustschuk (Ruse), Bulgaria 482–3

Ruthenes, literacy among 481

Ruthenia 203

Rutherford, Ernest 498

Ryazan province 442

Saar region 146, 147

Sabbatarianism 458

Sacher-Masoch, Leopold von, Venus in Furs 417

Sacred Heart, cult of 455

Sade, Donatien, Marquis de 172, 417, 424

sadism 417

Sadowa (Königgrätz), Battle of 254–7, 702

safety razor 502

Sahara desert 631, 649, 652

St-Agrève 117

St Barthélemy 267

St Chamond 299

St Croix, Virgin Islands 267

St Emilion 296

St Étienne 151, 482, 562

St Gallen 554

St Helena 12, 15

St Martin, Antilles 268

St Moritz 365

St Paul, Provence, St-Rémy Asylum 428

St Petersburg: Alexandrovsk factory 136; beggars in 118; central administration in 131, 248; chief of police 413; children’s hospitals 422; drunkenness in 512; epidemics in 400; fires 372; and funeral of Alexander III 404; gas lighting in 315; industry around 298; Jewish students in 475; Jews expelled from 474–5; landowners in 85–7, 93; Peter and Paul Fortress 211, 404, 612; population growth 313; Putilov Armoury 299; railways 151; registered prostitutes 411; religious meetings in 467; schools 485; Siemens branch in 302; Soviet declared in 619; Summer Garden 611; syphilis in 412; trams 315; University 496, 612; water supply 308–9, 311; Winter Palace 614, 618; women’s study courses 506–7; workers in 339

Saint-Saëns, Camille 536

Saint-Simon, Claude-Henri de Rouvroy, Comte de 172–3, 636

Saint-Simonians 172–3, 174, 268, 269, 323

Sakhalin Island 641

Salamanca, University of 493

Saldanha, Don António Manuel de 234

Saldanha, João (later Duke of Saldanha) 42, 229

Salewski, Michael, History of Europe xvii

Salford, living conditions 306–7

Salic Law 72, 107, 182, 252

salicylic acid 419–20

Salillas, Rafael 439

Salis, Rodolphe 516

Salisbury, Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of 281, 577, 578–9, 661, 662, 668

Salm-Salm, Alfred, Prince zu 287

Salonika (Thessaloniki) 55, 58, 675, 679, 695, 696

salons 319–20

Salt, Henry 626–7

salt production 147, 186, 300

Salvarsan 412

Samara 131, 368

Samarkand 641

Sami language 482

Samoa 640, 646, 652

San Gimignano 437

San Stefano, Treaty of 675, 677, 681, 688, 695

Sand, George 269

Sand, Karl Ludwig 34

Sandringham, Norfolk 363

Sanga people 663

sanitation 354

sans-culottes 271

Santander 350

Santarosa, Count Santorre di 40–41, 56

Santos-Dumont, Alberto 387, 388

Saône, river 149

Sarajevo 62, 224–5, 704–6; trams 315

Saratov 131

Sardinia 109, 159

Svarengrad, monastery 6

Sarthe 376

Sassari 109

Satie, Erik 516

Saumoneau, Louise 566

Saumur 32

Sauria, Charles 335

Sava, river 224

Savannah, SS 294

Savov, Mihail 696

Savoy 25, 242, 243; House of 589

sawmills 304

Saxons 201, 211

Saxony, Kingdom of: abolition of serfdom 95, 97; agrarian reform in 96; baptisms and funerals in 468; in Battle of the Nations 21; industry in 147; judicial power in 99; militias 76; as powerful state 605; and Prussia 25; public executions in 433; redemption payments in 97; revolution 210, 220; textile production in 7

Sazonov, Sergei Dmitrievich 709, 710

scampanate 343; see also charivari

Scandinavia xix, 26, 482, 631; alcohol consumption in 512; Biedermeier style in 447; drama in 524–5; emigration from 348–9; famine in 128; feminism in 546–7; national minorities in 572; playwriting in 524–5; stability of borders after 1870 266; vigilante justice 343; see also Denmark; Finland; Norway; Sweden

Scandinavian Mountains 364–5

scarlet fever 399

Schaudinn, Fritz 412

Scheldt, river 72

Schiaparelli, Giovanni 388

Schickedanz, Albert 316

Schiller, Friedrich, Wilhelm Tell 78

Schinkel, Karl Friedrich 316, 453

schizophrenia 431

Schlegel, Friedrich 685

Schleswig 253

Schleswig-Holstein 28, 88, 199, 252–3, 337, 485

Schlieffen, Alfred von 709

Schliemann, Heinrich 630

Schmerling, Anton von 199, 246

Schnapps 512

Schneider, Jacques 388

Schneider Trophy 388

Schneider-Creusot 299

Schoelcher, Victor 267

Schoelkopf Power Station, Niagara Falls 304

Schoenberg, Arnold xix, 517, 530, 534, 535; The Book of the Hanging Gardens 534; Pierrot Lunaire 534; Second String Quartet 534

Schoenberg, Mathilde 534

Scholten, Peter von 267

Schönerer, Georg Ritter von 479

schools see education

Schubert, Franz 448; The Conspirators 448; Impromptus 451–2; Die schöne Müllerin 448; Schwanengesang 448; Die Winterreise 448

Schumann, Clara 428

Schumann, Robert 428, 448, 529; Carnaval 448; Cello Concerto 448; Davidsbündlertänze 448; Kinderszenen 448; Lieder 448; Piano Concerto 448

Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt 605

Schwarzenberg, Prince Felix zu 207, 240

Schwarzenberg family 108, 282

Schwimmer, Rosika 545

science: and exploration 630; future of 498–9; and modern weaponry 653; natural 495; and religion 469–71; universities and 302, 305–6, 496–7; and women 497; see also chemistry; physics

science fiction 388, 389

scientific materialism 471–2

scientist (as term) 497–8

Scotland: absentee landlords in 125; Evangelical revival in 457; failure of potato crop 123, 124–5; grain riots in 9; grouse-shooting in 289; Highlands 124, 127; land clearances and emigration 127; literacy in 481; Lowlands 147; railways and 394; reforestation in 368; Romantic depiction of 452; typhus in 8

The Scotsman 513

Scott, Percy 701

Scott, Robert Falcon 634

Scott, Sir Walter 444, 452, 522; The Bride of Lammermoor 452; Ivanhoe 452; Kenilworth 453; Rob Roy 452; Waverley 452

‘Scramble for Africa’ 647, 649, 654, 657, 661

scrofula 473

sculpture, monumental 405; see also Rodin, Auguste

scurvy 8, 131, 403

Scutari 235, 419

Seafield estates, Scotland 368

Second Anglo-Boer War 579, 660–61

‘second industrial revolution’ 300–306

Second International 554, 557, 557–8, 566, 592, 711; Congress (Amsterdam, 1904) 561

Second World War xvixv, xvi, 23, 599, 715–16

secret societies 32–5, 38, 39–40, 43–6, 54, 75, 161–2, 246, 266, 559; see also carbonari

secularization 454–5, 461–3, 466–9; in men and women 468–9; and superstition 473

Sedan, Battle of (1870) 263, 264, 526, 702

seigneurial courts 90–91

seigneurs see landowners

Seine, river 173

self-castration 459–61

Selkirk, Thomas Douglas, 5th Earl of 658

semaphore 157

Semmelweis, Ignaz 420

Semper, Gottfried 316

Senegal 64, 637

sepoys 667; mutiny of 638–9

septicaemia 421

Septinsular Republic 59

Serao, Matilde 330–31

Serbia: army 673–4, 691, 696–7; and assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand 704–10; and Austria-Hungary 691–2, 706–7; in Balkan Wars 693–4, 696; and Battle of Kumanovo 693; Constitution 707; declaration of war on 707; electorate 569; ‘Greater Serbia’ 693, 697, 706; independence 677; irredentism in 692; Jews in 476; May Coup

(1903) 691; military coup (1903) 569; Muslims in 678, 697; ‘National Defence’ 693; nationalism in 673, 704; Orthodox Church in 61–2; and Ottoman Empire 53, 61–2, 344, 673–4; and outbreak of First World War 713; peasant revolt 678; population 696; Radical Party 691; Romanian emigration to 94; and Russia 696, 697, 713; and Slav nationalism 687; state bankruptcy 690; and Treaty of Berlin 677; tree-felling 367; ultimatum to 706–8; ‘Unification or Death’ (Black Hand’) 693, 696, 705, 706; Vojvodina 203; see also Serbs

Serbo-Bulgarian War 678, 690

Serbo-Croat (language) 487

Serbo-Ottoman War 673–4

Serbs 207, 209, 224, 260; blood feuds 344; Bosnian 88, 673, 704; in Hungary 201, 203–4, 583, 587; languages spoken by 487; literacy among 481; in Macedonia 688

serfdom: abolition of xix, xx, 15, 20, 43, 95, 97, 281, 282, 353, 435, 508; in Austria 221, 240; in Bukovina 240; in Croatia 204, 240; and domestic service 91–2; duties of and restrictions on serfs 89–91, 95, 127, 153; emancipation of serfs 88, 93–8, 102, 113; in Europe 88; in France 221; in Galicia 187, 203, 240; in Habsburg Empire 240; in Hungary 192, 240; and hunting rights 362; and merchants 324; punishment of serfs 86–7, 89, 91; in Russia 22, 85–8, 89, 91, 94, 153, 221, 236, 238, 287, 324, 326; serf revolts 93–4; in Silesia 90, 91; and slavery 88–9; in Transylvania 240; see also landowners

Sevastopol 234, 235–6, 674; Malakov redoubt 235

Seven Oaks, Battle of 658

Seven Years’ War 26

Seventh Cavalry (US army regiment) 242

Severing, Carl 711

Seville 41, 108, 160; tobacco factory 335

sewage farms 310

sewing machines 300, 336, 503–4

sewing-thread industry 300

sex manuals 410

sex workers see prostitution

sexual emancipation 174, 548

sexuality: among working class 411; and emancipation of women 171; extra-marital 414; and hypocrisy 525; and salons 320; women believed lacking in sexual impulse 410, 413, 416, 417

Shaftesbury, Anthony Ashley Cooper, 7th Earl of 145, 470

Shakespeare, William 185, 209; bowdlerization of 410; influence on Verdi 525; Henry IV Part II 410

Shanghai 394

sharecroppers xx, 108–9, 112–13, 127

Shark Island 655

Shaw, George Bernard 558–9; Mrs. Warren’s Profession 525; Pygmalion 525; Widowers’ Houses 525

sheep and cattle 115

Sheffield 241

Shelley, Mary, Frankenstein 451

shipbuilding 296

Shipka Pass, Battle of 675

shipping 293–6; and emigration to USA 348; sailing ships 394–5; tea-clippers 394; see also steamships

shooting (as sport) 363–4

shops and shopkeepers 326, 327–9, 353

shtetls 475

Siam (Thailand) 649

Sibelius, Jean 529, 546; Finlandia 528; Fourth Symphony 535; Karelia Suite 528

Siberia: exile in 44, 47, 50, 51, 86, 93, 94, 118, 211, 238, 246, 248, 272, 278, 352, 435, 438, 616; march to 435; Russian conquest of 352

Sicily: 1848 revolution in 190; banditry in 109; beggars in 117–18; blood feuds 344–5; bribery in 589; death in 406; guilds 159–60; and Italian Wars of Independence 243–4; and The Leopard 291–2; Mafia 345, 442, 589; noble lands in 100; Parliament 214; peasant revolts in 46, 111, 214, 570, 591; peasants 525

sickness insurance 551

Sidney, Samuel 374

Siegburg, mental hospital 425

Siemens, Carl von 302

Siemens, Werner von 302, 315

Siemens, Sir William 302

Siemens company 302, 303, 407

Silesia 90, 93, 123, 145, 146, 147, 165, 282; industry 297; landowners 288; Poles in 465

Silfverstolpe, Malla 320

silicosis 335

silk industry 67, 218, 296

Simbirsk 131

Simms, Frederick 382

Simplicissimus 515

Simplon Tunnel 379

Simpson, James Young 419, 420

Simpson, William, and Jones, Martin, Europe 1783-1914xiv, xvi

Sinclair, Upton 277

Sind 638

Singapore 361

Singer, Isaac 336

Singer, Isabelle-Blanche (later Decazes) 280

Singer, Paul 478

Singer family 280

Sinope, Battle of 233

Sisley, Alfred 530

Six Articles 77

Skibbereen 127

skiing 365

‘skimmington’ 343, 344; see also charivari

skirts, divided 503

Skobelev, Mikhail Dmitrievich 675

Skopje 462, 693

Skoptsy 87, 324, 459–61

Skrzynecki, Jan 50–51

Skutari (Shkodër), Albania 698

Skye 124

slate-quarrying industry 294–5, 339

slavery, slave trade: abolition movements 266–8, 537, 660, 682; in Algeria 635; in America 446, 537; Arab traders 633; compared to factory work 169; decline in 20, 637; depicted in art 451; in Haiti 19, 56–7; in Latin America 17; Napoleon and 19; outlawed 25, 667; in Romania 88–9; uprisings 267–8

Slavophiles 489

sleeping sickness 664

Slovak (language) 203

Slovaks 201, 203, 260, 583, 587

Slovenes 583

slums 308–9, 313, 402, 525

smallpox 8, 398–9, 400, 658, 664

Smetana, Bedřich: The Bartered Bride 528; Má vlast 526–7

Smiles, Samuel, Self-Help 227

Smith, Sir Harry 226

Smith, John (missionary) 267

Smith, Sydney 79

Smith, W. H. (stationers) 328

smuggling 611; of arms 208; of intoxicants 439, 640; and looting 626–30; of machinery 143, 357; throughout Europe 440; of troops 699

Smyrna (Izmir) 56

Snelmann, Johan Vilhelm 178

soap production 300

social clubs 319–20

Social Darwinism 543, 684–5

social democracy 557, 687, see also Germany, Social Democratic Party of Germany

social question 165–8

social revolution, pre-First World War 353–4

socialism 553–67; in Austria 567; in Britain 558–9; and colonialism 644; in France 177, 188, 200, 559–63, 597, 598–9, 711; and franchise 570; funerals as demonstrations 404; in Germany 551, 554, 565, 567; and global emancipation 353; institutions 567; international 711; in Italy 592; Jews and 478; origin of term 173, 174; post-1848 Revolutions 269–70; pragmatists 556; revisionists 556; and rise of welfare state 553; and rural labourers 113; in Spain 563–4; split between Marxists and Bakuninists 273; women and 564–6; and working class 621; see also Bakunin, Mikhail; Marx, Karl; Utopian socialism

socialist radicalism 558

‘The Society of the Friends of the People’ (conspiratorial society) 75

Society for German Colonization 647

Society of Rational Religionists 174

Society of the Rights of Man 67

Society of St Vincent de Paul 553

Society of United Slavs 43–4

sociology 173

soda production 301

Sofia 316–17, 370, 675, 679, 696; main railway station 317; National Assembly 317; Vitosha Boulevard 317

Solferino, Battle of 242

solidarity (as term) 173

Solingen 212

Sologne, France 122, 473

Solomon Islands 649, 652

Solway purification process 301

Somalis 631

‘Song of the Volga Boatmen’ 150

songbooks 510

Sorbs, Lusatian 482

Soult, Jean-de-Dieu 66, 67

South Africa xix; Union of 661

South America 16–17, 133, 179, 216, 243, 631, 635; abolition of slavery 268; European expansion into 640; see also Latin America

South Pole 633–4

South Slavs 487, 705

South Staffordshire 141

South-West Africa (Namibia) see German South-West Africa

Southampton 348

sovereignty 12, 16–17, 23, 28, 63, 74, 82, 178, 192, 547

Sowiński, Józef 51

space, conquest of 389, 442

Spain: agriculture in 100, 117, 129, 297; and Americas 297; anarchism in 563–4; anticlericalism in 466; aristocratic landowners in 286; army 41, 83, 169; Asturian Miners’ Union 549; banditry in 110; Basque language in 482; bullfighting in 362–3; bureaucracy 322; Catalan nationalism 572; census (1914) 520; cinema in 519–20; coal production 334; colonies 15, 25, 135, 222, 268, 624, 649; conspiracies 38; constitution 37–8, 74, 222, 223, 568; Constitution of Cadiz 484; constitutional monarchy 569; Cortes 38; cultivation of land 358; death rate 403; earthquake 370; economic depression 222–3; economy 37; emigration from 350; exports 297; factories 335–6; famine in 129; female domestic servants in 336; French invasion of 167; French troops in 4; General Union of Workers 549; Guardia Civil 440; guilds 160; industrial production 132, 305; iron production 297; Jews in 476; life expectancy 404; literacy in 481; loss of empire 18; Ministry of Commerce, Education and Public Works 229; Ministry of Education 484; minority languages in 484–5; Moyano Law 484; and Naples 70; Napoleonic occupation 37, 42; National Confederation of Labour 549; nobility 279–80, 281; number of cinemas 520; peasant revolts in 107–8; peasants in 616; and Peru 116; population 352; property sales 286; public executions in 432; Railway Law (1855) 377; railways 152, 153, 377; relations between Church and state 484; revolutionaries in 38, 41, 74, 82; royalists 107; smallpox in 403; State Mining Directorate 339; strikes 548; succession disputes 28, 260; tariff barriers 297; taxation in 108; textile industry 135, 338; tobacco factories 335–6; trade unions in 549; traffic regulation 314; tree-felling in 368; troops 16; turnismo 569; universal male suffrage 568; universities in 493; urban life 113; urban revolts 74; Welfare Law 119; Wellington in 629; Workers’ Circles 467

Spanish Empire (in America) 16, 37, 652

Spanish Inquisition 34, 37

Spanish Succession, War of 26, 28

Spanish-American War 591, 623, 649, 652

speed limits 382

Speenhamland System 120

Speke, John Hanning 630, 631

Spence, Thomas 45

Spencean Philanthropists 45–6

Spencer, Herbert 684

Speransky, Mikhail Mikhailovich 19, 47

Sperber, Jonathan: Europe 1850-1914: Progress, Participation and Apprehension xvi; Revolutionary Europe xvi

Spetses 61

Sphacteria 56

Spicheren, Battle of 262

spinning wheels and machinery 132, 134, 135, 136–8, 304

spirits, import and export 283

Spiritualism 174, 388–9, 408

Spitzweg, Carl, The Poor Poet 385

Spohr, Louis 450

sports, cruel 361–4, 442

Spurzheim, Johann 423

Stadling, Jonas 130

stags, hunting 363

Stalin, Josef (Djugashvili) 617

Stalybridge 138

Stambolov, Stefan 678–9

stamp duty 523

stamps, postage 380

Stanley, Henry 632

Stanley, Henry Morton 632–3

Stanley, Venetia 580

Starley, James 383

Starley, John Kemp 383

Staropolskie Basin 144

Staszic, Stanisław 144

state: growing power of xviii, 281–2; intervention 220, 298

Staufen 200

Stavropol 368

Stead, William Thomas: The Americanization of the World 623; ‘The Maiden Tribute of Modern Babylon’ 414

steam power xxi, 136, 139, 143, 150–51; locomotives 150–51

steamships xviii, 150, 189, 293–4, 296, 351, 379, 394–5

steel production 230, 304, 368, 380

Stefan, Archduke, Palatine of Hungary 191–2, 206

Steiff Company 360

Steindl, Imre 454

Steinschneider, Moritz 478

Stendhal (Marie-Henri Beyle): The Charterhouse of Parma 13; The Red and the Black 13

Stephan, Heinrich von 380

Stephenson, George 150, 152, 153, 155, 379

Stephenson, Robert 150

stereotypes: cultural 490; gender 469; racial 480, 490; see also antisemitism

sterilization of ‘inferior’ 439

Sternickel, August 345–6

stethoscope 422

Stevenson, Robert Louis, The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde 374–5

Stifter, Adalbert 447

Stiles, William H. 190

stock-breeding 115

Stöcker, Adolf 478

Stöcker, Helene 542–3, 543

Stockholm 225, 444, 467

Stoker, Bram, Dracula 358

Stolypin, Pyotr Arkadyevich 104, 290, 619

Stovakian dialect 487

Stowe, Harriet Beecher 537

Stralsund 328

Strasbourg (Strasburg) 32, 69; University 495

Strathspey 368

Straus, Oscar 535

Strauss, David Friedrich 471; The Life of Jesus, Critically Examined 470

Strauss, Johann 518

Strauss, Richard: Elektra 535; Der Rosenkavalier 534–5; Salomé 535

Stravinsky, Igor Fyodorovich: The Firebird 535; Petrushka 518, 535; The Rite of Spring 535–6

streets: animals in 309; congestion in 315; lighting 305, 314–15

strikes 136–7, 138, 162, 163, 164, 227, 270, 374, 523, 548–50, 560, 587, 687

Strindberg, August: The Father 524; Miss Julie 524

The String of Pearls (melodrama about Sweeney Todd) 516

Stritt, Marie 542, 543

Strousberg, Bethel Henry 153

Struve, Gustav 190, 196, 200, 212

Stuck, Franz von, Sin 531

students 32, 33, 34–5, 64, 103, 187, 191, 194–5, 205; Academic Legion 194; facilities for 498; French 32, 64; German 33, 34–5, 187; Greek 462; increase in numbers 187; Jewish 475; law 321; medical 322–3, 504–5; Norwegian, and skiing 365; riots 496; Russian 610–11; in Vienna 191, 194, 205; see also universities

Sturdza, Mihail, Prince of Moldavia 203

Stuttgart 52, 211–12, 557; Assembly 212

Styria (Steiermark) 297

Sudan 646, 653, 677

Sue, Eugène: Mathilde 167; The Mysteries of Paris 167

Suez Canal 294, 394, 618, 645–6, 648, 649, 661, 683

suffrage: adult male 196, 218, 221, 566; extension of 66, 79, 281, 282, 483, 568, 570, 600, 621; universal adult 543, 546, 567, 571; universal male xviii, 12, 78, 194, 223, 228, 257, 265, 548, 568–9, 585, 593, 601, 609, 621; women’s xviii, 505, 508, 537–48, 542–8, 566, 582

suffragettes 416, 538–40, 547, 581; demonstrations by 538–40

Sufism 636

sugar: in European diet 418; plantations 100, 112, 122, 226, 267, 283, 640; refineries 122, 298, 337, 351

Sumatra 631

Sumbawa, Dutch East Indies 5–6

superstition 472–4

Suriname 268

Surrey 594

Suttner, Bertha von, Lay Down Your Arms! 687

Swan, Sir Joseph 302, 315

Sweden: Academy 445; alcohol consumption in 512; anti-war campaign 558; Association for Married Women’s Property Rights 507; birth rates 408, 409; as constitutional monarchy 225; cremation in 407; death in 407; drama in 524; emigration from 348–9; Estates 567; famine in 128; farm labourers in 101; feminism in 507; industrial production 132, 300, 304; infant mortality 403; iron production 142; Jews in 476; Karl Johan furniture 447; legislature 570; life expectancy 404; missionary societies in 469; nobility 279; and Norway 26; and Norwegian independence 546, 558; Parliament 567, 568; passport requirements 483; Protestant sects in 467; railways 152; riots 225; and Schleswig-Holstein 199; Swedish Social Democratic Party 558; timber exports 304; trade unions in 549; traffic regulation 314; universal male suffrage 568; universities 495; welfare measures 551; wolf-hunting in 358; women’s rights in 505; women’s suffrage in 547; see also Bremer, Fredrika; Scandinavia

Swedish Finland 444

Swedish (language) 487, 546

Swedish Pomerania 25, 33, 88

Swiss Reformed Church 459

Switzerland 7, 9, 43, 179, 200, 211, 216, 272, 277, 290, 359, 372, 557, 563; army 182; art associations 534; ban on absinthe 512; bears in 359; carbonari in 43; Civil War 182; Constitution 26, 60, 512; exile in 611, 613, 614; Federal Diet 78; Federal Treaty (1815) 182; flight of insurgents to 211; independence 78; industrial production 132; judicial power in 99; languages 488; Rosa Luxemburg in 557; Mazzini in 179, 216; mental institutions 430; mortality rates 9; Protestantism in 459; railways 151; reform 78, 79, 80; Romanian boyars in 290; serfdom in 88; Sonderbund 182; Swiss Confederation 25, 77–8; textile industry 7, 132; universities 496, 506; watchmaking 305; women at university 506; women’s suffrage movement in 566

Symbolism 531–2; in art 531; in literature 531–2

symphonic poems 529

symphonies 529

synagogues, reform 476

syphilis 412, 470; as cause of insanity 427, 428

Syria 53, 57

Széchenyi, Count István 143, 181, 191–2, 205–6, 357

Szeged 208, 369

Szeged-Pest railway 110

Szela, Jakub 187

Szemere, Bertalan 355–8

Taaffe, Count Eduard 584–5

Talleyrand-Périgord, Prince Charles-Maurice de 23, 29, 30, 65, 71

Talyllyn railway 294–5

Tambora volcano 5–6

Tambov 131

Tanganyika, Lake 631, 632

Tangiers 699

Tanzania 646

Taranto, Gulf of 369

Tarn, south of France 376

Tashkent 641

Tasmania 226, 658–9; Black Line 659

taxation: in Albania 223; in Algeria 635–6; in American colonies 17; in Belgium 71; in Britain 228; by Napoleon 11, 19; in Ceylon 226; in China 651; in France 11; in Germany 285, 603; in Greece 60, 690; in Habsburg Empire 194, 357; in Hungary 586; in India 665, 666; in Italy 112, 215; and nobility 281–2; in Poland 247; in Russia 131, 324; in Spain 38, 108; in Tunisia 645

Taylor, Harriet 540

Taylorism 623

Tbilisi 617

Tchaikovsky, Nikolai Vasilyevich 613

Tchaikovsky, Pyotr Ilyich 502, 519; The Year 1812 527–8

tea trade 293, 300, 394, 640

tea-drinking 513

teachers: as government employees 325; salaries 327, see also professors and teachers

technology 53, 352, 379, 443, 622, 623, 653–4

teddy bears 360

Tel el-Kebir, Battle of 646

telegraph xviii, 157–8, 229, 254, 302, 353, 379, 391; and news organizations 392; state control of 392

telegraphy, wireless 392–3

telephone xviii, 330, 374, 392

telescopes 388, 498

Tell, Wilhelm 77–8

Temes 358

Temesvár (Timisoara) 315; Battle of 208–9

temperance campaign 345, 467, 489, 503, 511–12, 517, 542

Ten Articles 77

Tennant, Margot 579

Tenniel, Sir John, ‘Dropping the Pilot’ 607

Tennyson, Alfred, Lord 518; In Memoriam 406

Teplice-Šanov (Teplitz-SchÖnau) 355

Terezín (Theresienstadt) 705

terrorism 616, 715

Teste, Jean-Baptiste 186

Tewfik Pasha, Khedive of Egypt 646

textile industry 132–9, 187, 294, 296, 306–7; mechanization 133–6, 300; and railway expansion 380; women working in 335

Thames, river 150, 310, 375, 503

Thebes 626–7

theology 33, 34, 471, 495

Thérèse of Lisieux, St (Thérèse Martin) 455

Thermopylae (tea-clipper) 394

Thessaly 690

Thibaw Min, King of Burma 668

Thienemann, August 309

Thiers, Adolphe 31, 64, 65, 66, 67, 188–9, 215, 218, 265, 271–2, 594

Thimonnier, Barthélemy 336

Thirty Years’ War 26

Thistlewood, Arthur 45–6

Thomas, Sidney Gilchrist 295, 297

Thomas, Walter Aubrey 385

Thompson, Sir Henry 407

Thomson, Joseph 498

Thorn, Poland 319

Thrace 675, 693, 695, 696

Threlkeld, Lancelot 658

Tiber, river 369–70

Tibet 649

Tietz, Leonhard 328

Tietz, Oskar 328

Tigre 652–3

Timbuktu 629

time: measurement of 389–96, 442; as theme in art 395

The Times 235, 237, 245, 339, 392, 708

Tirana 695

Tirpitz, Alfred von 502, 700–701

Tisza, Count István 587

Tisza, Kálmán 586

Titanic (unfortunate ocean liner) 395, 623

Tito, Josip Broz 517

tobacco industry 300; women in 335–6

Tobermory 631

Tocqueville, Alexis de 230, 436; Democracy in America 188

Togoland (Togo) 646, 647, 657

Tolpuddle Martyrs 162

Tolstoy, Leo Nikolayevich 502; Anna Karenina 289, 505, 524; ‘The Death of Ivan Ilyich’ 406; ‘Three Deaths’ 406; War and Peace 526

Tolstoy, Count Pyotr Alexandrovich 48

Tonality in music 530, 534, 536

Tondini de Quarenghi, Abbé Cesare 393

Tonga 640, 652, 661

Tongking 649

Tönnies, Ferdinand, Community and Society 500

Tonypandy 581

top hats 503

Torlonia, Alessandro, Prince of Civitella-Cesi 369

Totleben, Eduard 236, 674

Toulouse-Lautrec, Henri de 516

Tour de France 383

tourism 489–90

Toynbee, Arnold xv

Tractarian movement 457

trade: overseas 353, 400; in Russia 87; tea and opium 125; treaties 285; world 26, 53, 654

trade associations 300

trade unions xx, 78, 113, 162–3, 227, 270, 548–50, 559, 561, 566, 582, 615; in Britain 162–3, 227, 270, 549, 550–51, 582; and British Labour Party 559, 582; in France 549–50; in Germany 549; in Manchester 78; and rural labourers 113; in Spain 549; in Sweden 549; throughout Europe 548–50; and women’s work 566; ‘yellow’ 549

Trafalgar, Battle of 16, 406

traffic regulation 314

trams 302, 305; horse-drawn and electric 315

Trans-Siberian Railway 377

translation 490

Transleithania 583

transnational history xvixvii

transportation 145, 147–57; of coal 149, 151; of convicts 435–6

Transvaal 637, 660–61

Transylvania 7, 94, 202, 208, 209, 240, 358, 407, 452; German-speakers in 483; Romanian nationalists in 681

Trappists 464

Traugutt, Romuald 247–8

travel, foreign 87, 117, 148–56, 191–2, 308–9, 317, 355–6, 375, 379–90, 483, 489–90, 630

Travnik 225

treadmill 436–7

Treitschke, Heinrich von 499

Trepov, Fyodor Fyodorovich 613

Trevelyan, Sir Charles 124

Trevithick, Richard 150

trial by jury 190, 192, 210, 220, 238, 345, 567, 584, 686

tricolor flag 29, 65, 66, 75, 78, 214, 593

tricornes 503

Trier 177; Bishop of 465; Cathedral 455; procession of the Holy Robe 455

Trieste 294, 318

Trinidad 667

Triple Alliance (1882) 677, 698

Triple Entente (between Britain, France and Russia) 707–8

Tripoli (Libya) 649

Tripolitsa 55

Tristan, Flora 169–71, 173, 268, 269, 482, 489; Peregrinations of a Pariah 170

Trollope, Anthony: The Barsetshire Chronicles 524; The Pallisers 524; The Vicar of Bullhampton 322

Troppau (Opava), Congress of 40–41

Trotha, Lothar von 655

Trotsky, Leon (Lev Davidovich Bronstein) 517, 619

trousers 503

Troy, ancient 630

trusts 300, 303

Tsarskoe Seloe 151

Tsiolkovsky, Konstantin Eduardovich, The Exploration of Cosmic Space by Means of Reaction Devices 389

tsunami 371

tuberculosis (consumption) 332, 396–8

Tucepi 8

Tulla, Johann Gottfried 370

Tunis 53; Pasteur Institute 400

Tunisia 571, 645

turbines 134

Turgenev, Ivan Sergeyevich: Fathers and Sons 523, 611; Smoke 289

Turin 209, 303, 381; council of commerce 80

Turkey 304, 357; cholera in 401; in Crimean War 27; ID requirements 483; looting from 630; Russia and 677, see also Ottoman Empire

Turkmenistan 641

Turks 482

Turner, J. M. W.: Rain, Steam and Speed: The Great Western Railway 155; The Slave Ship 451; Snow Storm: Steam-Boat off a Harbour’s Mouth 451

Tuscany, Grand Duchy of: liberalism in 38–9, 181, 213; peasants in 221; Piedmont and 243; prisons 437; republicanism in 214–15; sharecropping in 108, 112

Tuskegee Institute, Alabama 657

Twain, Mark 308, 664

Two Sicilies, Kingdom of 38–40, 41, 111, 193, 292, see also Sicily

Tyldesley, spinning factory 137

typewriters 300, 304, 327, 330; see also Olivetti

typhoid 310, 311–12, 399, 402

‘Typhoid Mary’ 399

typhus 8, 57, 125, 131, 217, 399, 402, 697

tyres, pneumatic 381, 383

Ufa (Russian city) 131

Uganda 647, 648

Ukraine 43, 94, 100, 103, 117, 203, 247, 285, 288; Jews in 474, 475; metallurgical industry 298–9; nationalism 490; Uniate Church in 461, Ukrainians 583

Ukrainian (language) 203

Ulster 581-2, 708; Protestants 707

Ultramontanes 455, 466

‘Ultras’ 30, 31, 32

Umberto I, King of Italy 563, 591, 600, 601

unconscious, collective 418

unemployment and underemployment xix, 7, 9, 220

Uniate Church 461

Union of Salvation (later Union of Welfare) 43

Unitarians 457

United Alkali 302

United States of America: agricultural machinery 283; anarchism in 564; and China 651; and Chinese treaty ports 650; cholera in 401; cinema industry 520; Civil War 346, 387, 622, 632, 702; coal industry 300; communes in 172, 174; Congress 57, 348; conservatism in 624; Constitution 43, 623; cotton exports 136; democracy in 623; economic growth 715; emigration to 2, 8, 212, 242, 346–8, 350–52, 622; European expansion in 640; farmland in 127; federal system 623; and female emancipation 622; focus on internal affairs 18; gardens 364; German admiration of 623–4; grain exports 284–5; Great Plains 348; Homeland Act (1862) 348; ideologies of 19; as image of future 622–4; industrial production 300, 352, 622; interdependence with Europe 622; Jews in 476; Kossuth in 209; machine tool export 381; and Monroe Doctrine 16; motor manufacture 352, 381–2; Navy 635; oil production 299; Parnell in 576; and Pearl Harbor bombing 618; philhellenism in 57; Polish Central Committee 346; population 352; Revolution 31, 71, 835; slavery 331, 537, 635, 649; socialism in 566; Swedish-Americans 348; technology 622, 623; transportation of convicts to 435; Union Army 387; War of 1812 25; War of Independence 15; weights and measures in 376; women in 622–3; women’s suffrage movement in 566, 622; see also Spanish-American War

Universal Postal Union 380

Universalgeschichte xv

universities 493–9; in Britain 305–6, 496, 497–8; in Bulgaria 495; in Denmark 495; in France 32, 493–4; in Germany 187, 302, 305, 321, 323, 325, 494–5, 496, 496–7; in Greece 495; in Italy 321, 493; in Norway 495; in Poland 495–6, 497; in Russia 19, 47, 238, 324, 496, 497; in Spain 493; in Sweden 495; in Switzerland 496; women in 545

The Unmasker 610

Upper Burma 649, 668

Upper Nile 649

Upper Rhine 212

Upper Saône valley 368

Upper Silesia 125, 341, 399, 488

Uppsala 320

Urals 377

Uranus (planet) 388

urban improvement 306–17, 354

urbanism 113, 229

urbanization 281, 306–17, 320, 360, 666; and atmospheric pollution 442; in Berlin 316; in Britain 306–7, 309–10, 313, 314, 315, 316; in Budapest 310–16; and decline in crime 345; in Europe 306–17; and growth of crime 342; in Hamburg 307–8, 309, 311; and mental patients 430; in Paris 312–13, 314; in St Petersburg 308–9, 315; in Sofia 316–17; in Vienna 314

Urfa, cathedral 689

Uruguay 16, 17; Civil War 179

Ussher, James 394, 471

utilitarianism 121, 522

Utopian communities 446, 636

Utopian socialism 171–5, 184, 187, 269, 565, 611

Uusikaupunki, Turku province, Finland 128

Uvarov, Count Sergei Semyonovich 47

vaccination 398–9, 402

Vachell, Horace, The Hill 704

Vaillant, Auguste 562–3

Valencia 107, 467

Valley of the Kings 628

Valuev, Pyotr Alexandrovich 490

vampires, legends of 407

Van Amburgh, Isaac 360–61

Van Gogh, Vincent 428, 532; The Potato Eaters 521; Starry Night 532

Varenne, Alexandre 561

Varennes 194

Varice 264

Varna 234

Vas, Hungary 481

Vatican City: and ban on Catholics in politics 592; Bismarck and 465; and Italian state 463, 589; and Lateran Treaty 246; Pope Pius IX and 463; Ricasoli and 589

Vaughan Williams, Ralph 533, 534

Velázquez, Diego, The Rokeby Venus 539

Velikoe 85–7, 89

velocipede 383

Vendée 11

vendettas 344–5

Venetia 243, 253

Venezuela 13, 16

Venice 59, 217, 379; Austrian blockade 193; British in 489; Constituent Assembly 193; Italian Club 217; as republic 192–3; siege of 217

Venizelos, Eleftherios 502, 690–91

Verdi, Giuseppe: Falstaff 525; Nabucco, Chorus of the Hebrew Slaves 527; Otello 525; La Traviata 525

Verga, Giovanni, Cavalleria Rusticana 525

Verlaine, Paul 531

Verne, Jules: Around the World in Eighty Days 379; The Carpathian Castle 358; Five Weeks in a Balloon 386–7

Versailles 271; Armistice of (1871) 265

Vesuvius 371

Vickers 299

Victoria, German Empress 606

Victoria, Queen of Great Britain: in Baden-Baden 289; and Samuel Baker 631; and Buffalo Bill show 623; and chloroform 418–19; and colliery disaster 145; death 580; Diamond Jubilee 624, 643; at Drury Lane 360; as Empress of India 643, 644; on Ferdinand I of Bulgaria 678; Golden Jubilee 643; at Great Exhibition 292; and homosexuality 416; in mourning for Prince Albert 405; on Nicholas I 49; and outlawing of homosexuality 41; and Salic Law 182, 252

Vidi I, Prince of Albania (Prince Wilhelm of Wied) 695

Vidin, Bulgaria 631

Vidocq, Eugène François 340, 346

Vienna: aristocracy in 274; Austrian Postal Savings Bank Building 385; Ballhausplatz 191; banking crisis in 241; beggars in 7–8; bourgeoisie 319; Café Central 517; Carmen in 526; as centre of Habsburg Empire 39; children’s hospitals 422; Congress of 20–26, 28, 60, 63, 70, 78, 80, 146, 229, 252, 634; cycling in 384; Exposition (1873) 407; fire hydrants 374; General Hospital 420; Jews in 477, 479; Lueger and 585; Ministry of War 206; and Modernist music 535; multinationality 33; music in 518; Ottoman siege of 18, 53; Prater 205; Protestantism in 459; Razumovsky Palace 20; and resignation of Metternich 191; Ringstrasse 314, 583; riots 75, 191, 201; St Stephen’s Square 206; as seat of Dual Monarchy 259; Settlement 25–6, 52, 229, 266; Steinhof mental hospital 427; stock market crash 584; Town Council 585; University 195; uprising (1848) 205–7; World Exhibition (1883) 302

Villafranca, Peace of 243

villages, life in 375, 510–11

Villain, Raoul 711

Villèle, Jean-Baptiste, Comte de 31, 32

Villiers (Champigny), Battle of 264

Vilna, University of 49

violence: by IMRO agents 688; in colonies 656, 658, 662; in early 20th century xix; wartime 715, see also atrocities

Viollet-le-Duc, Eugène 453

Virchow, Rudolf 399–400

Vítkovice iron works 143

Vittorio Emanuele I, King of Piedmont-Sardinia 38, 40, 242, 255

Vittorio Emanuele II, King of Sardinia (later King of Italy) 214, 245, 589, 600

Vittorio Emanuele III, King of Italy 563, 600–601; as numismatist 600

Vizcaya 377

Vlachs, in Macedonia 688

Vladimir 136

Vladimirescu, Tudor 54

Vladivostok 377

La Voix des Femmes 269

Vojvodina 6

volcanic eruptions 5–6, 371, 403

Volga, river 103, 150

Volhynia 359

Vollmar, Georg von 556

Voltaire 176

Volterra 437

Volturno, Battle of 245

Voortman textile mill, Ghent 136–7, 138–9

Vorarlberg 135; literacy in 481

Voronezh 130, 131

Vosges 368

Votes for Women and Chastity for Men 416

Vyatka 48

Vyrnwy, Lake 312

Waghäusel, Battle of 212

Wagner, Cosima 478–9

Wagner, Otto 385, 427

Wagner, Richard 210, 211, 478, 529–30, 534, 686; The Mastersingers of Nuremberg 527; Parsifal 529; Das Rheingold 383; Tristan and Isolde 530

Waitangi, Treaty of 640

Wakefield, Edward Gibbon 639–40, 657

Waldeck-Rousseau, Pierre 561

Waldeyer-Hartz, Heinrich Wilhelm Gottfried von 431–2

Wales 8, 140, 143, 147, 490; coal industry 377; crime rates 345; Evangelical revival in 457; miners’ strike 581; slate-quarrying industry 294–5, 339

Walewski, Count Alexandre 120

Walker, James 153

Wallace, Alfred Russel 389, 471

Wallachia 53, 54, 105, 122, 202–3, 233, 679; Proclamation of Islaz 203, see also Danubian Principalities

Wallonia, coalfields 136

Walloons 194, 488

Wallsend pit, Newcastle 140, 141

Walter, Jakob 1–3, 7

‘The Wanderers’ 522, 526

war: diseases spread by 398, 399, 401; limitation of damage from 687; see also arms and warfare methods; guerrilla warfare; Crimean, Russo-Turkish etc.

War of the Early Risers (Second Carlist War) 108

War of the Ragamuffins 179

Warburg, Carl 396

Warburg’s Tincture 396

Ward, Sir Adolphus xvii

Ward Jackson, steamship 248

Wars of Italian Unification 27, 242–6, 583

Warsaw 49, 51, 208, 248, 526; City Delegation 246–7; infantry officers’ school 50; Pawiak Prison 248; University 496; water-supply system 311–12; Wola churchyard 51

Warsaw, Grand Duchy of see Congress Poland

Wartburg castle, Germany 34, 77

Washington, Booker T. 657

Washington, George 172

Washington, DC: conference on world time standardization (1884) 393; White House 25

Wasserpolacken 488

watchmaking 305, 390

water closets 310

water supplies 308–13; purification of 399, 402

Waterloo, Battle of xvi, 5, 9, 10, 12, 13–14, 20, 22, 23, 63, 78–9, 234, 237

watermills 136, 139

waterways see canals, rivers

Wawrinsky, Richard 407

weavers 133–4, 338; riots by 67, 162, 165, 218

Webb, Beatrice 559

Webb, Sidney 559

Weber, Carl Maria von 448

Weber, Max 469

Webern, Anton 534, 535

Wedekind, Frank: Earth Spirit 416; Pandora’s Box 416; Spring Awakening 416

Wednesday Psychological Society 417

weeping, by men 500–501

weights and measures 15, 375–7; imperial system 376–7; standardization 376–7

Weinbrenner, Friedrich 316

Weininger, Otto, Sex and Character 501

Weitling, Wilhelm 75; The Gospel of Poor Sinners 174; Humanity: As it is and as it should be 174

Wekerle, Sándor 587

Welcker, Carl 183

welfare measures 10, 567

welfare state 118, 548, 551–3, 596

Wellington, Arthur Wellesley, Duke of 12, 13–14, 29, 58, 79, 127, 150, 169, 184, 476, 629; funeral 404, 405

Wells, Herbert George: The First Men in the Moon 389; The Time Machine 685; The War of the Worlds 389

Welsh 482

Welsh (language) 490

Weltpolitik 700

Werkbund 533–4

Werner, Anton von 527

Wesley, John 457

West Africa 267, 628–9, 630, 644, 652, 662

West African Frontier Force 662

West Indies 267, 658

West Prussia 338; literacy in 481

Westende coalmining company 303

Westphalia, Kingdom of 14, 287, 294, 376

Westrobothnia 128

Wetterhorn 365

whaling 304

Whewell, William 497–8

whipping: of animals 359; of convicts 438; as disciplinary measure 119, 434–5, 656, 663; of farm servants 87, 101–2; of prisoners 655; of serfs 86, 91

‘White Fathers’ 469

White Star steamship company 395

Whymper, Edward 365

Wichern, Johann Hinrich 467

Wicklow, County 347

Wielopolski, Count Alexander 246–7, 248

Wiesbaden 376

wife-sales 509

Wilberforce, Samuel 471–2

Wilberforce, William 456

Wilde, Oscar 362, 415, 416, 581; The Picture of Dorian Grey 532

Wilhelm, Duke of Brunswick 76

Wilhelm I, King of Prussia (later German Emperor) 250–51, 254–8, 289, 434, 479, 564, 603; assassination attempts on 603–4; death 606; and Franco-Prussian War 263; side-whiskers 502; and Spanish succession dispute 260–61

Wilhelm I, King of Württemberg 183

Wilhelm II, Elector of Hesse 76

Wilhelm II, German Emperor: accession to Prussian throne 434, 606; and Agadir Crisis 692; and Bismarck 607; and ‘blank cheque’ of support for Austria-Hungary 706; and British 607; and Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Show 623; Camarilla 607–8; car horn 383; character and personality 606–7, 609; on China 651; and education 491; in exile in Netherlands 715; fall of 600; and German navy 700–701; and German South-West Africa 655; and Herzl 478; as hunter 363; intervention in world affairs 700; and ministers 608; in Morocco 699–700; moustache 502; and public scandals 415; recording of voice 518; and Silesian landowners 288; and socialism 556; as traveller 606; and ultimatum to Serbia 708; and Vittorio Emanuele III 601; and Werner 527

Wilhelmina, Queen of the Netherlands 72

Willem I, King of the Netherlands 70, 72

Willes, James Shaw 500

William IV, King of the United Kingdom 372

Willkomm, White Slaves 166

Wills, Sir Alfred 365

Wilson, Sir Henry 702

Wilson, Rev. James 416

Winchester College, Hampshire 492

Windischgrätz, Prince Alfred zu 99, 204–5, 206, 206–8

windmills 132, 139, 370

Windthorst, Ludwig 602

wine production 116, 570

Winkworth, Catherine 638

Wirth, Johann Georg 77

Wismar 328

Wissembourg, Battle of 262

witchcraft, alleged 473

Witte, Sergei Yulyevich 131, 298, 299, 324, 617

Woking, Surrey, crematorium 407

wolves 355; hunting of 358–9

women: barred from politics 508; barred from professions 504; barred from universities 504, 505–6; believed lacking in sexual impulse 410, 413, 416, 417; in bourgeois households 325–6; in British Labour Party 566; and Catholic Church 541; and charitable work 325; and children 507; and Code Napoléon 504–5; and conquest of nature 443; and crime 504; diagnosed as ‘nymphomaniac’ 426–7; disparity in wages 338; and divorce 504; as doctors 509, 544; domestic roles 543; in domestic service 335, 336, 337; dress 503–4; education of 269,

481, 504, 506–7, 509, 541; emancipation of xix, xx, 171, 173–4, 268–9, 450, 537, 558, 565, 622; employment of 330, 335–7; in food and drink industries 336; freedom of 451; and gender stereotyping 320, 468–9, 499–500; in Germany 330, 506, 507, 566; as half of European population xxii; hysteria in 430, 448–9, 509; in journalism 507; labour of 132, 134, 138–9, 171, 508; lack of legal protection 504–5; lesbianism 415–16; literacy 481; mass rapes of 651; as match-girls 335; and Mechanics’ Institutes 485–6; Napoleon’s views on 15; in new areas of employment 330, 336; as novel-readers 523; orgasmic dysfunction diagnosed in 430; in Paris 268; and philanthropy 505, 509; in politics 269, 546, 547; professional 509, 547; and property 505, 507, 508, 509, 547; and Protestantism 508; Proudhon on 175; rights of 15, 171, 268–9, 503, 504, 505–7; ‘romantic friendships’ among 416; in rural areas 508; as rural workers 338; and salons 320, 501; as scientists 497; and secularization 468–9; seen as emotional 468, 499–500, 504, 509; sexuality 174, 410, 413–16, 417; and socialism 564–6; as students 384, 506–7, 509; suffrage xviii, 505, 508, 537–48, 542–8, 566, 582; in textile factories 335, 336; as tobacco workers 335–6; treated as minors 504; unemployment and 169; in universities 545; as unmarried mothers 543; in USA 622–3; Weininger on 501; working-class 336, 411, 509, 521, 543, 544, 565; see also divorce; feminism; marriage; prostitution

Women’s Franchise League 538

Women’s Freedom League 540

Women’s Social and Political Union (suffragettes) 538, 539, 541

Women’s Socialist International Congress (Copenhagen, 1910) 566

Women’s Suffrage Journal 538

wood theft 103, 108, 342–3; see also forests

wool production 132, 135

Wordsworth, William 447

Workers’ International, French Section 561

working class 158–65, 331–9; in Austria-Hungary 583; and bourgeois values 354; diet 333; emergence of 583; formation of 187; housing 307, 308, 313–14, 523, 552, 576, 684; living and working conditions 306–7, 350; socialism and 553, 567; use of term 165; voting rights 548; and welfare schemes 552; women 336, 411, 509, 521, 543, 544, 565;v see also labour

Working Men’s Charter 184

Working Men’s International 553–4, 562, 563, 711

workshops: artisanal 132, 146, 329–30; national 200

World Congress of Esperantists 490

‘The World’ (conspiratorial society) 75

World Fairs 353

World Zionist Organization 478

Worsdell, Thomas 153

worship, freedom of 15

Wrangel, Baron Nicholas Alexandrovich von 703

Wright, Orville and Wilbur 387–8

Wróblewskí, Zygmunt 497

Wuppertal 135, 301

Württemberg 1, 2, 6, 8, 21, 26, 88, 97, 183, 190, 212, 605; Jews in 476; potato blight in 123

Würzburg 10

X-rays 497

Xhosa people 659–60

Yablochkov, Pavel Nikolayevich, candle 315

Yassakh 87

yeast extracts 301

Yellow Book 416

Yerkes, Charles 302

Yiddish 475, 482

Yonne, river 149

Yorkshire 133, 142

Yorktown, Siege of 172

Young, Thomas 396–7

Young Argentina 179

Young Austria 179

Young Bohemia 179

Young Czechs 585

Young Germany 178

Young Hegelians 176–7, 470

Young Ireland 179

Young Italy 178–9

Young Ottomans 674

Young Poland 179, 186

Young Turks 439, 689–90, 691, 695

Young Tyrol 179

Ypsilantis, Alexander 54

Yuzovka settlement, Ukraine (Stalino, Donetsk) 288–9, 298

Zabern (Saverne) Affair 609

Zagreb 204, 370, 379

Zambezi, river 633

Zamenhof, Ludwik Lazard, Unua Libro 490

Zamindars 665

Zamoyski estates, Congress Poland 144

Zanardelli, Giuseppe 43

Zanzibar 648, 661, 662

Zaragoza 222

Zasulich, Vera 613, 614

Zeitz district 508

Zeppelin, Count Ferdinand von 387

Zetkin, Clara 565, 566

Zetkin, Ossip 565

Zietz, Luise 565

Zionism 478

Zlín 298

Zminj, Croatia 6–7

Zola, Émile 484; on Huysmans 532; L’Assommoir 523; Au Bonheur des Dames 328; The Debacle 526; Germinal 411, 523, 562; J’accuse 597, 598; Nana 413; ‘Naturalism in the Theatre’ 524; Paris 384; Les Rougon-Macquart 326, 523–4

zoos 360–61; native villages in 643

‘Zouaves of Death’ 248

Zubatov, Sergei Vasilyevich 615

Zucchi, Carlo 75

Zulus 594, 660

Zundel, Georg 565

Zürich 78, 565, 612; University 496, 506, 557

Zwanziger family 165

Zweifel, Paul 409

Zwickau 147

Żyrardów 135