A History of the World

by Andrew Marr

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  Mitgang, Herbert, Abraham Lincoln: A Press Portrait (Quadrangle 1971)

  Mokyr, Joel, The Enlightened Economy: Britain and the Industrial Revolution 1700–1850 (Yale University Press 2009)

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  Norwich, John Julius, A History of Venice (Penguin 1983)

  ––– Byzantium: The Early Centuries (Viking 1988)

  ––– Byzantium: The Apogee (Viking 1991)

  ––– Byzantium: Decline and Fall (Viking 1995)

  ––– The Popes: A History (Chatto 2011)

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  Rediker, Marcus, The Slave Ship ( John Murray 2007)

  Reston, James Jr, Galileo: A Life (Cassell 1994)

  Reynolds, David, America, Empire of Liberty (Allen Lane 2009)

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  Roberts, Andrew, A History of the English-Speaking Peoples Since 1900 (Weidenfeld & Nicolson 2006)

  Roberts, J.A.G., A History of China, 2nd edition (Palgrave Macmillan 2006)

  Robinson, J. Armitage, The Passion of St Perpetua (Cambridge University Press 1891)

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  ––– Citizens (Viking 1989)

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  ––– Jerusalem (Weidenfeld & Nicolson 2011)

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  Uglow, Jenny, The Lunar Men (Faber and Faber 2002)

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  Watson, Peter, The Great Divide (Weidenfeld & Nicolson 2012)

  Watson, Steven, The Reign of George III (Oxford University Press 1960)

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  Williams, Glyndwr (ed.), Captain Cook’s Voyages (The Folio Society 1997)

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  Wilson, James, The Earth Shall Weep (Grove Press, New York 1998)

  Wood, Alan, Russia’s Frozen Frontier (Bloomsbury Academic 2011)

  Wood, Frances, Did Marco Polo go to China? (Secker & Warburg 1995)

  Wood, Michael, In Search of the Trojan War (BBC Books 2005)

  Woods, David, ‘On the Death of the Empress Fausta’, Greece & Rome, vol. xlv

  Wright, Esmond, An Empire for Liberty (Blackwell 1995)

  Index

  Abbasids ref 1, ref 2

  Abd al-Rahman I ref 1

  Abd al-Rahman III ref 1

  aboriginal Australians ref 1, ref 2, ref 3, ref 4

  encountering of by Cook and Banks ref 1, ref 2

  and European colonization ref 1, ref 2

  kidnapping of Bennelong ref 1, ref 2

  absolutism ref 1, ref 2, ref 3, ref 4, ref 5, ref 6

  Abu Bakr ref 1

  Achilles ref 1

  Actium, battle of (31 BC) ref 1

  Acts of the Apostles ref 1

  Adams, John ref 1

  Adams, William ref 1

  Afghanistan

  invasion of by Soviet Union (1978–9) ref 1, ref 2

  Afghanistan war ref 1

  Africa ref 1, ref 2, ref 3, ref 4

  agriculture ref 1, ref 2

  annexation of Congo by Leopold II ref 1, ref 2

  art ref 1

  decolonization ref 1

  desertification of North ref 1

  development of society ref 1

  domestication of camels ref 1

  European imperialism in ref 1

  evolvement of hominids in ref 1, ref 2

  food production ref 1

  Mali empire ref 1, ref 2, ref 3

  migration of early humans from ref 1, ref 2

  and Muslims ref 1

  penetration of by European explorers ref 1

  population growth ref 1

  pre-colonial societies ref 1

  religion ref 1

  salt trade ref 1

  ‘scramble for’ ref 1, ref 2

  slave trade/slavery ref 1, ref 2

  succession issue ref 1

  see also individual countries

  agriculture ref 1, ref 2, ref 3

  Africa ref 1, ref 2

  Britain ref 1

  changes brought about by ref 1

  China (ancient) ref 1, ref 2

  and climate change ref 1, ref 2

  development of new skills ref 1

  and emergence of early villages ref 1 />
  and enclosures ref 1

  and Fertile Crescent ref 1

  and fertilizers ref 1, ref 2

  health and lifespan of early farmers ref 1

  India (ancient) ref 1

  Minoan ref 1

  Native American ref 1

  origins ref 1

  and population growth ref 1, ref 2, ref 3, ref 4

  Russia ref 1

  slash-and-burn ref 1

  Ahiram, King ref 1

  air pollution ref 1, ref 2

  Akbar the Great ref 1, ref 2

  Akkadians ref 1, ref 2

  Aksum ref 1

  al Qaeda ref 1, ref 2

  al-Andalus ref 1, ref 2, ref 3, ref 4, ref 5, ref 6

  Ala-ud-din ref 1

  Alans ref 1

  Albania ref 1

  Alberti, Leon Battista ref 1

  Alcibiades ref 1

  Alexander II, Czar ref 1, ref 2, ref 3

  Alexander III, Czar ref 1

  Alexander III, the Great, King of Macedon ref 1, ref 2, ref 3, ref 4, ref 5

  adopting of Persian culture ref 1

  conquests ref 1, ref 2

  death ref 1, ref 2

  education ref 1, ref 2

  killing of Cleitus ref 1

  Alexandria (Egypt) ref 1, ref 2

  Alexandria Library ref 1

  algebra ref 1

  Algeria

  seizure of by French (1830) ref 1

  Allende, Salvador ref 1

  Almohads ref 1, ref 2

  Almoravids ref 1, ref 2

  alphabet

  Greek ref 1

  Phoenician ref 1, ref 2

  Ambedkar, B.R. ref 1

  Amenhotep III ref 1

  American Civil War (1861–5) ref 1, ref 2, ref 3

  and blacks ref 1

  death toll ref 1

  economic and cultural factors ref 1

  impact of ref 1, ref 2

  reasons for fighting by Confederate soldiers ref 1

  Reconstruction following ref 1

  and slavery ref 1, ref 2

  surrender of Lee’s army ref 1, ref 2

  American colonies ref 1, ref 2, ref 3, ref 4, ref 5

  American War of Independence (1776–81) ref 1, ref 2

  Americas ref 1, ref 2

  behind in development compared with Eurasia ref 1

  and Columbus ref 1

  European invasions and colonization ref 1, ref 2, ref 3

  killing of natives by European diseases ref 1, ref 2, ref 3, ref 4

  native societies ref 1

  and the Nazca ref 1

  Spanish conquest of Incas and Aztecs ref 1, ref 2

  tectonic activity and natural disasters ref 1

  Amin, Idi ref 1

  Amrapali ref 1, ref 2

  Amritsar Massacre (1919) ref 1, ref 2

  Analects ref 1, ref 2, ref 3

  Anasazi people ref 1

  Anatolia ref 1, ref 2, ref 3

  anatomy ref 1

  ancestor worship ref 1, ref 2, ref 3, ref 4

  Andes ref 1

  Andropov, Yuri ref 1

  Anemospilia temple ref 1

  Angel, J. Lawrence ref 1

  Angkor Wat ref 1

  Angola ref 1

  animals

  early domestication of ref 1, ref 2, ref 3, ref 4

  reverence of in hunter-gatherer societies ref 1

  animism ref 1, ref 2

  Anne, Queen ref 1, ref 2, ref 3

  anti-Semitism ref 1

  Antigonus the One-eyed ref 1

  Antiochus IV, King ref 1

  Antiochus XIII, King ref 1

  Antoninus Pius, Emperor ref 1

  Antony, Mark ref 1, ref 2, ref 3

  Apsu (god) ref 1

  Aquinas, Thomas ref 1

  Arabia ref 1, ref 2

  Arabs

  conquests made by ref 1

  invasion of Spain ref 1

  sacking of Rome (846) ref 1

  and Second World War ref 1

  trade ref 1

  Aramaic ref 1

  Arapaho ref 1, ref 2

  Archimedes ref 1

  Arian Heresy ref 1

  Arians/Arianism ref 1

  Aristobulus ref 1

  Aristotle ref 1, ref 2, ref 3, ref 4, ref 5, ref 6

  Politics ref 1

  arms race ref 1

  Armstrong, Karen ref 1

  Arrian ref 1

  Arsenale (Venice) ref 1

  art

  ancient Egypt ref 1

  Byzantium ref 1

  cave ref 1, ref 2

  and first Mesopotamian cities ref 1

  Minoan ref 1, ref 2

  Nazca ref 1

  pre-Colonial Africa ref 1

  Artificial Intelligence ref 1

  Aryans ref 1, ref 2

  Ashoka ref 1, ref 2, ref 3

  Assyrians ref 1, ref 2

  astrolabes ref 1, ref 2

  astrology, and Muslims ref 1

  Astyages, King ref 1

  Atahualpa, Emperor ref 1

  Athens/Athenians ref 1, ref 2, ref 3, ref 4

  democracy ref 1, ref 2

  drama ref 1

  and Four Hundred ref 1

  Parthenon ref 1

  rule of the Thirty Tyrants ref 1

  slavery ref 1

  Syracuse disaster and defeat of by Sparta ref 1

  war with Persians ref 1, ref 2

  Atlantis ref 1

  atom bomb ref 1, ref 2

  Augsburg, Peace of (1555) ref 1

  Augustus, Emperor ref 1, ref 2, ref 3, ref 4

  Aurangzeb, Emperor ref 1

  Austerlitz, battle of ref 1

  Australia ref 1

  Cook’s voyage to ref 1, ref 2

  European colonization ref 1, ref 2

  transportation of British convicts to and first settlements ref 1

  Australian Aboriginals see aboriginal Australians

  Austria ref 1

  anti-Semitism ref 1

  and Habsburg rulers ref 1

  Austro-Hungarian Empire ref 1, ref 2

  Averroës (Ibn Rushd) ref 1, ref 2

  Avicenna ref 1, ref 2

  ‘axial age’ ref 1

  Aztecs ref 1, ref 2, ref 3, ref 4

  Baal (storm-god) ref 1

  Babur (Zahir-ud-Din Muhammad) ref 1, ref 2, ref 3

  Babylon/Babylonians ref 1, ref 2, ref 3, ref 4, ref 5

  Baghdad ref 1, ref 2, ref 3

  Bahamas ref 1

  Baldwin, Stanley ref 1

  Ban Chao, General ref 1

  Banda, Hastings ref 1

  Bank of England ref 1

  banking crisis (2008) ref 1

  Banks, Sir Joseph ref 1, ref 2, ref 3