The Transformation of the World (275 page)

disease epidemics in,
186

education and literacy in,
609
,
611
,
793
,
820

French occupation of,
66
,
284
–
85
,
401
,
412
,
420
,
440
,
480
,
503
,
581

GDP,
169

migration and settlement of,
147
,
212

religion in,
901

resistance to French in,
281
,
406
,
425
,
440
,
771
,
909

reunification of,
238
,
412

social hierarchy or class in,
611
,
771
,
838

Tay Son uprising in,
519
–
20

trade,
655
,
682
,
712

Villa, Pancho (José Doreteo Arango Arámbula),
348

villages,
676
–
78

Virchow, Rudolf,
194
,
780
,
861

Vivekananda Svami,
900

Vladivostok,
260
,
290
,
366
,
714

volcanic eruptions,
198
–
99
,
206

Vries, Peer,
392

wages,
124
,
159
,
161
,
166
,
168
,
171
,
175
,
216
,
224
–
25
,
281
,
687
–
88
,
690
,
693
,
736
,
862

Wagner, Richard,
5
–
6
,
546
,
586
,
692
,
867

Wahhabism,
446
–
47
,
894
–
95

Wallachia,
148

Wallerstein, Immanuel,
326
,
392
,
650
,
669
,
724

walls

cities as walled space,
297
–
300

port enclosures,
278

Walras, Léon,
65

Wang Shixiong,
189

Ward, David,
248

warfare, weapons technologies and tactics,
127
,
512

American Indian culture and,
334
,
335
,
344

arms races and,
471

communications as,
395
,
720

conscription,
616
–
18

economic,
454
,
524

fascist ideology and,
368
–
69

Geneva Convention and norms for,
505
–
6

genocides,
127
,
833
–
34

guerilla techniques,
396
,
488
–
91

industrialization and,
433

mountain,
328

naval,
277
–
78
,
491
–
93

organizational and technological advances,
483
–
86
,
512

photography as,
40
,
41

sieges,
210
–
11

War of the Spanish Succession,
125

War of the Triple Alliance,
476
–
77

Warren, Robert Penn,
4

wars

“colonial wars,”
127
,
486
–
91
,
512
,
833
–
34

disease outbreaks and,
182
,
185
,
191
,
194

imperial expansion and,
474

legitimacy of offensive,
394
,
471

population disasters and,
120
–
21
,
126
,
140

social status and military service,
764

See also
revolutions
;
warfare
, weapons technologies and tactics;
specific

Wars of German Unification,
125

See also
Franco-Prussian War
;
Sadová
,
Battle of

Washington, George,
539
–
40

Washington Conference,
915

Washington D.C.,
159
,
269
,
271
–
72
,
319

watches,
71
–
72
,
74

water

irrigation systems,
146
,
175
,
199
–
200
,
208
,
214
,
443
,
657
,
683

as natural resource,
339

rivers as channels of transportation,
349
,
694
,
713

turbines and energy production,
653
,
657

water and sewer systems,
172
–
76
,
195
,
245
,
291
,
310

See also
hydraulic engineering

Watt, James,
654

wealth

growth in value production,
908

liquidity and mobility,
911

weapons,
64
,
153
,
340
–
41
,
349
,
383
,
395
,
485

Webb, Walter Prescott,
326

Weber, Adna Ferrin,
251

Weber, Max,
18
,
25
,
53
,
392
,
569
,
574
,
607
,
612
,
630
,
639
,
668
–
69
,
704
,
746
,
813
,
861
,
874

and energy theory of culture,
651
–
52

Wei Yuan,
92
–
93

welfare, social insurance programs,
623
–
25
,
708
–
9

Wellesley, Richard Colley, Marquess of,
54
,
432
–
33
,
532

Wellington, Arthur Wellesley, Duke of,
541

the West,
86
–
87

as “civilized” world,
836
–
37

as North American Frontier,
331
–
46

population of,
118

use of term,
495

Western civilization, reference density and

peripheries of,
912
–
13

Westernization,
87
,
626

in China,
227
–
28
,
775

clothing and,
235
–
37

colonial,
288
–
91

of diet,
227
–
28

in Japan,
236
–
37

in Latin America,
234
–
35

in Ottoman Empire,
626
–
27

resistance to,
628

self-Westernization and urban life,
291
–
93

technology and,
912
–
13

See also
Europeanization

West Indies,
81
,
132
–
33
,
429
,
644
,
829
–
30
,
840

West Sudan,
106

Weyler y Nicolau, Valeriano,
487

whaling,
332
,
386
–
89
,
694

White, Richard,
323

Whitehead, Alfred North,
908

whooping cough,
178

Wiesbaden,
265

Wilberforce, William,
541

Wilhelm, Richard,
813

Wilhelm I, King of Prussia, later German

Emperor,
19
,
266
,
584

Wilhelm II, German Emperor,
398
,
471
,
501
,
578
,
585
,
586
,
589
,
805

Wilhelmshaven,
277

Williamson, Jeffery G.,
392

Wilson, Woodrow,
501
,
504
,
837
,
907
,
918

Winckelmann, Johann Joachim,
11

Witte, Sergei,
561
,
647
,
655
,
692
–
93

Wolff, Bernhard,
38

Wollstonecraft, Mary,
507
–
8

women

emancipation and social equality of,
916

as explorers,
80

famine and vulnerability of,
201
–
2

imperialism and changing roles of,
464

international women's movement,
507
–
8

as labor,
151
,
280
,
324
,
687
–
88
,
695
–
97

sati
in India,
831

suffrage and democracy,
404
,
507
,
594

wood.
See
forests as natural resources

Woolf, Virginia,
919

workhouses,
224
,
225
,
623

World War I,
120
,
907
,
909
,
916
,
918

as end of nineteenth century,
47
–
48

Wrigley, E. A.,
249

Wuhan

Wuhan (Hankou),
280
,
293
–
95
,
597
,
661
,
772

Wu Woyao,
21

Wyoming,
477
,
603

Xiamen (Amoy),
92
,
162
,
290

Xinhai revolution in China,
556
–
70

Xu Jiyu,
92
–
93

Xuyun,
164

Yakuts,
357

Yale, Elihu,
806

Yalta, Crimea,
265

Yamagata Aritomo,
618

yellow fever,
193

Yellow Sea,
84
,
86
,
104
,
418

Yersin, Alexandre,
186
–
87

Yihetuan Uprising (Boxer Rebellion),
3
,
21
,
42
,
63
,
248
,
299
–
300
,
497
,
560
,
564
,
818
,
890

Yokohama,
42
,
290
,
312
,
714

Yongzheng Emperor of China,
593
,
625

Yoshida Shigeru,
918

Young, Brigham,
895
,
901

Young, G. M.,
58
–
59

Younghusband, Sir Francis,
457
,
488

Young Turk Revolution,
35
,
54
,
138
,
237
,
409
,
504
,
559
–
60
,
566
–
68
,
570
,
658
,
849

Yuan Shikai,
559
,
570
,
590
,
730

Zamenhof, Ludwik Lejzer,
511

zamindars,
755
–
56

zemstvo,
564

Zhang Jian,
687

Zhejiang,
120
,
549

Zheng He,
492

Zola, Émile,
19
,
21

zoos,
384

Zulus,
350
–
51
,
487
–
88
,
583
,
616

Zunz, Olivier,
248

Zurich,
138
,
268
,
298

Zweig, Stefan,
918

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