The Hutchinson dictionary of world history.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Helicon Publishing, issuing body.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Encyclopedias and dictionaries.

History--Dictionaries.

History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (2023 pages)

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon : Helicon Pub., 2006.

Summary:

Companion to world history, ranging from the early civilizations of Mesopotamia, Egypt, and China to the Balkan states and ex-Soviet republics.

Contents:

Intro

The Hutchinson Dictionary of World History

Preface

Table of contents

A

B

C

D

E

F

G

H

I

J

K

L

M

N

O

P

Q

R

S

T

U

V

W

X

Y

Z

Abbadid dynasty (lived 11th century)

Abbas II (1874-1944)

also known as Abbas Hilmi Pasha

Abbas I, the Great (c. 1571-1629)

Abbasid dynasty

Abd al-Hamid II (1842-1918)

Abd al-Karim (1880-1963)

also known as Abd al-Karim el-Khettabi

Abd Allah (1846-1899)

also known as Abd Allah ibn Muhammad at-Tai'shi

Abd al-Malik Ibn Marwan (647-705)

abdication crisis

Abdullah, Sheikh Muhammad (1905-1982)

Abdullah ibn Hussein (1882-1951)

Abdullah ibn Hussein (1962- )

Abelard, Peter (1079-1142)

French Pierre Abélard

Aberdeen, George Hamilton Gordon, 4th Earl of Aberdeen (1784-1860)

ABM

abolitionism

Aboukir Bay, Battle of

or the Battle of the Nile

Abraham, Plains of

absolutism

or absolute monarchy

Abu Simbel

Abyssinia

Achaea (or Achaia)

Achaean League

Achaemenid dynasty

Acheson, Dean (Gooderham) (1893-1971)

Acre

acropolis

(Greek 'high city')

Action Française

Actium, Battle of

Adams, John (1735-1826)

Adams, John Quincy (1767-1848)

Adams, Samuel (1722-1803)

Addington, Henry, 1st Viscount Sidmouth (1757-1844)

Adelaide (1792-1849)

Aden

Arabic 'Adan

history

Adenauer, Konrad (1876-1967)

admiral

Admiralty, Board of the

Adrian IV (c. 1100-1159)

born Nicholas Breakspear

Adrianople

Adwa, Battle of

Aegean civilization

Aetolia

affirmative action

Afghanistan

government

independence as a monarchy: 1919-73

republic and Soviet influence: 1973-79

Soviet invasion and control: 1979-89

battle for control over Afghanistan: 1989-92

the Mujahedin in power: 1992-96.

the Taliban in power: 1996-2001

overthrow of the Taliban in 2001

rebuilding the country from 2002

natural disasters

Afghanistan War

Afghan Wars

Afonso I (1094-1185)

African nationalism

Africa, the scramble for

Bismarck intervenes

Afrika Korps

Agadir Incident

or the Second Moroccan Crisis

Agent Orange

Agincourt, Battle of

the battle

agitprop

(Russian 'agitation propaganda')

agora

agrarian revolution

causes of improvement

new crops

four-course rotation

livestock farming

Agricola, Gnaeus Julius (40-93)

agricultural revolution

agriculture, 19th-century British

Agrippa, Marcus Vipsanius (c. 63-12 BC)

Ahab (c. 875-854 BC)

Ahasuerus

Persian Khshayarsha, Greek Xerxes

Ahmad Shah Durrani (1724-1773)

aide-de-camp

ADC

(French 'camp assistant')

Aidid, Muhammad Farah (1936-1996)

aircraft carrier

air force

air raid

Akbar, Jalal ud-Din Muhammad (1542-1605)

Akhenaton (or Ikhnaton)

Akhetaton

Akkad

Akko

formerly Acre

New Testament Ptolemais

Aksum

or Axum

Alamein, El, battles of

Alamo, the

Alanbrooke, Alan Francis Brooke (1883-1963)

1st Viscount Alanbrooke

Alaric (c. 370-410)

Albania

independence

the 'Hoxha experiment'

open dissent

end of one-party system

civil unrest

first multiparty elections

economic problems

first noncommunist leaders

Albert, Prince Consort (1819-1861)

Albert I (1875-1934)

Albion

Albuquerque, Afonso de (1453-1515)

Alcazarquivir, Battle of

Alcibiades (451/0-404/3 BC)

Alcock, John William (1892-1919)

Alcuin (735-804)

born Flaccus Albinus Alcuinus

Aldermaston

Alemanni (or Alamanni)

(Gothic 'united men' or 'men from all parts')

Alexander, Harold Rupert Leofric George (1891-1969).

1st Earl Alexander of Tunis

Alexander

Alexander III (died 1181)

born Orlando Bandinelli

Alexander VI (1430 or 1432-1503)

born Rodrigo Borgia or Rodrigo Borja

Alexander I (1777-1825)

Alexander II (1818-1881)

Alexander III (1845-1894)

Alexander I (c. 1078-1124)

Alexander II (1198-1249)

Alexander III (1241-1286)

Alexander I, Karageorgevich (1888-1934)

Alexander Nevski, St (1220-1263)

Alexander Severus (AD 208-235)

born Marcus Aurelius Severus Alexander

Alexander (III) the Great (356-323 BC)

Alexander the Great

Alexandra Feodorovna (1872-1918)

Alexandria

or El Iskandarîya

Alexandria, Library of

Alexandria, school of

Alexius

Alexius I, Comnenus (1048-1118)

Alexius III, Angelos (died 1210)

Alexius IV, Angelos (1182-1204)

Alfonso

Alfonso VII (c. 1107-1157)

Alfonso (X), the Wise (1221-1284)

Alfonso (XI), the Avenger (1311-1350)

Alfonso XII (1857-1885)

Alfonso XIII (1886-1941)

Alfred the Great (c. 849-c. 901)

Algeciras Conference

Algeria

French colonization

struggle for independence

Chadli's presidency

military rule

mounting civil strife

opposition proposals rejected

Algiers, Battle of

Ali (c. 598-661)

Ali Pasha, Mehmed Emin (1815-1871)

Allenby, Edmund Henry Hynman (1861-1936)

1st Viscount Allenby

Allende (Gossens), Salvador (1908-1973)

Allies, the

Almohad

Almoravid

Altamira

Alva, Ferdinand Alvarez de Toledo (1508-1582)

Duke of Alva or Alba

Alvarado, Pedro de (c. 1485-1541)

Amal

Amalekite

Amanullah Khan (1892-1960)

Amenhotep

Amenhotep III (1391-1353 BC)

American Civil War

American Federation of Labor

in full American Federation of Laborand Congress of Industrial Organizations, (AFL-CIO)

American Revolution.

or War of American Independence

The American Revolution

reasons for revolution

the settlement of North America

the seeds of unrest

the Declaration of Independence

British overconfidence and American victory

the adoption of the Constitution of 1787

the repercussions of the American Revolution

American Revolution: key dates

Amin (Dada), Idi (1925-2003)

Ammonite

Amorites

amphitheatre

(Greek amphi 'around')

Amritsar Massacre

or Jallianwalah Bagh massacre

Amsterdam Treaty

ancien régime

Andorra

emergence of democracy

democratic elections

Andrássy, Gyula (1823-1890)

Count Andrássy

Andropov, Yuri (1914-1984)

Angevin

Angkor

Angle

Anglo-American War

Anglo-Irish Agreement

or Hillsborough Agreement

Anglo-Saxon

Anglo-Saxon Chronicle

Angola

republic

Lusaka Agreement

fighting resumes after free elections

escalation of hostilities

peace treaty

Anjou

Anna Comnena (1083-after 1148)

Annales school

or total history

Annam

Anne (1665-1714)

Anne of Austria (1601-1666)

Anne of Cleves (1515-1557)

Anne of Denmark (1574-1619)

anno Domini

(Latin 'in the year of our Lord')

Anschluss

(German 'union')

Anson, George (1697-1762)

1st Baron Anson

Antall, József (1932-1993)

antebellum

(Latin ante bellum 'before the war')

Anthony, Susan B(rownell) (1820-1906)

anthropology

(Greek anthropos 'man', logos 'discourse')

biological anthropology

social anthropology

participant observation

antibiotic

anticlericalism

Anti-Corn Law League

Antigonus (382-301 BC)

Antigua and Barbuda

independence from Britain

ruling ALP retains hold on power

Antioch

Antiochus

Antiochus I (c. 324-c. 261 BC).

Antiochus II (c. 286-c. 246 BC)

Antiochus (III) the Great (c. 241-187 BC)

Antiochus IV (c. 215-164 BC)

Antiochus VII (c. 159-129 BC)

Antiochus XIII (lived 1st century BC)

anti-Semitism

Antonescu, Ion (1886-1946)

Antonine Wall

Antoninus Pius, Titus Aurelius Fulvus (AD 86-161)

Anzac

acronym for Australian and New Zealand Army Corps

Anzio, Battle of

Apache

(Apache 'fighting men')

leadership

wars

APC

Apis

appeasement

Appomattox Court House

Aquinas, St Thomas (1225-1274)

Arab-Israeli Wars

first Arab-Israeli War

second Arab-Israeli War

third Arab-Israeli War, the Six-Day War

fourth Arab-Israeli War, the October War or Yom Kippur War

fifth Arab-Israeli War

events in the 1990s

Arafat, Yassir (1929-2004)

born Muhammad Yassir Abdul-Ra'ouf Arafat As Qudwa al-Husseini

Arakan

or Rakhine

Ara Pacis

(Latin 'altar of peace')

Arapaho

(Arapaho 'trader')

Arawak

Arbenz Guzmán, Jácobo (1913-1971)

Arc de Triomphe

archaeology

(Greek archaia 'ancient things', logos 'study')

related disciplines

archive

archon

(Greek 'ruler')

Arendt, Hannah (1906-1975)

Argentina

the first European settlements

Spanish colonial rule

the struggle for independence

the early republic

territorial wars

the dispute with Chile

the early 20th century: prosperity and reform

the overthrow of the Radicals

Argentina in World War II

the rise of Péron

Perón's first presidency

Argentina since the 1950s

the return of Perón

the rule of Isabel Perón

Videla and the 'dirty war'

the Falklands conflict

Alfonsín's reforms and investigations

Menem tackles high inflation

Menem's constitutional reforms approved

access to the Falklands regained

Rúa comes to power

Menem arrested.

British prime minister visits.

Notes:

Description based on print version of record.

Contains:

Dictionary of world history.

ISBN:

1-280-75112-6

9786610751129

1-85986-524-0