A History of Modern Europe - From the Renaissance to the Present
A-36 Index
ballet, 81 1
Balzac, Honore de, 535, 541
banditry, 11
Bangladesh (East Pakistan), 1162
bankers, see financial institutions, merchant
bankers
Bank of Amsterdam, 169
Bank of England, 169, 997, 1052, 1126
Bank of France, 495, 527, 728
Bank of Prussia, 529
Bantus, 832
Bao Dai, 1167
Baptists, 221, 224, 326, 688
Barbie, Klaus, 1119
Barbizon painters, 799-800, 802
Barbon, Praise-God, 223
Barebones Parliament, 223
Barnum, P. T., 779
barometers, 307
baroque style, 122-23, 241, 330, 330
Barras, Paul, 470, 481
Barthou, Jcan-Louis, 1016
Bashkirs, 936
Basques, Spanish, 1 106, 1 186, 1 188, 1233
Bassi Veratti, Laura, 304-5
Bastille, storming of the (1789), 445-46, 446
Bather, The (Courbet), 800, 801
Batista, Fulgencio, 1155
Battle of Algiers, The, 1139
Baudelaire, Charles, 799, 799, 810
Bauhaus, 1027
Bavaria, 210, 249, 262, 265, 281, 330, 363,
395, 401, 575, 731
Catholic Reformation in, 116
1848 unrest in, 619, 629, 631, 636
French Revolution and, 476
German unification and, 667, 670
Napoleonic Wars and, 486, 488, 489, 491,
502, 507, 511
Reformation and, 81
Thirty Years’War and, 146, 150, 154, 156,
157
War of Bavarian Succession and, 401
Bay of Pigs invasion (1961), 1156
bayonets, 402, 403
Beaucaire, 24
Beauharnais, Eugene de, 495
Beauvoir, Simone de, 1138, 1140
Beccaria, Cesare Bonesana, marquis of,
336-37
Beckett, Samuel, 1137
Beckmann, Max, 990, 991, 1029
Beer Hall Putsch (1923), 1013
Beethoven, Ludwig van, 487, 584
Belarus (White Russia or Byelorussia), 270,
716, 762, 937,951, 1073, 1208
Belgian colonies, 819-20, 826, 828, 859, 1106
independence of, 1161
Belgium, independent:
agriculture in, 1125
Catholic Church in, 792, 1020
cities of, 549, 1142
1848 unrest in, 614
in European organizations, 1115, 1123,
1226, 1227
fascism in, 1003, 1019-20
French designs on, 729
independence gained by, 458, 598-600,
599, 612
Industrial Revolution in, 524, 524
inter-war politics in, 993, 1004
Locarno treaty signed by, 986
migration from, 1018
Nazi collaborators prosecuted in, 1117
neutrality of, 1054-55
nuclear power in, 1233
population growth in, 515, 516
post-World War II economic conditions in,
1120, 1120, 1121, 1122-23, 1122
post-World War II politics in, 1130, 1226
railroads in, 522, 524
reform movements in, 786
Ruhr occupied by, 984, 986
Second Industrial Revolution in, 763
Versailles Treaty and, 967
voting rights in, 614, 646, 979
workers in, 763, 1019
in World War I, 884-85, 887, 889, 891,
922, 924
in World Warll, 1049, 1057, 1061, 1062,
1083
Belgium (Southern Netherlands), 279, 281,
396, 424-25, 458, 459
and Congress of Vienna, 575
French Revolution and, 461,463, 464,
472, 473, 474, 481
independence of (1831), 458, 598-600,
599, 612
liberalism and nationalism in, 586, 598—600
middle classes in, 532
Napoleonic Wars and, 486, 508, 509
nobles of, 425
taxes in, 598
and Treaty of Paris, 571
Belinsky, Vissarion, 707
Bell, Alexander Graham, 755
“Belle Epoque,” 744, 778, 779
Ben Bella, Ahmed, 1169
Benes, Eduard, 1052, 1133
Bengal, 388, 399
Bentham, Jeremy, 546, 581, 696, 771
Benz, Karl, 753
