A History of Modern Europe - From the Renaissance to the Present
Index A-81
Russian Revolutions and, 722, 723, 917,
937, 948-49
science in, 306
serfdom in, 245, 511
Soviet domination of, 1057, 1105, 1132,
1134, 1152, 1153
Swedish conflicts with, 276
in Thirty Years’ War, 153
towns in, 23
trade and commerce in, 235
uprising of 1830-1831 in, 602—3, 602,
604, 612
uprising of 1863 in, 664, 668, 679, 681, 711
in War of the Austrian Succession, 394
West German relations with, 1181
World War I and, 922, 937
in World War II, 1060, 1073-75, 1076,
1077, 1080, 1110, 1181
police, see crime and social control
Polignac, Prince Jules de, 595, 596
Polish Corridor, 965, 969, 1030, 1052, 1056,
1073
Polish Democratic Society, 621
Political Economy Club (Great Britain), 581
Political Register, 562
“Political Testament” (Lenin), 1036
politics, see government and politics
politiques, 133, 135, 144
pollution, 1232-33
Polo, Marco, 24
Poltava, Battle of (1709), 277
Pombal, Sebastiao, marquis of, 338
Pomerania, 153, 158, 266, 270, 573, 964
Pompidou, Georges, 1179
Poniatowski, Stanislas, 428
Pontecorvo, Gilles, 1139
Ponts-de-Ce, Battle of (1620), 143
poorhouses, 383
Poor Law Amendment Act (Great Britain;
1834), 559, 609, 698, 785
Poor Law Commission (Great Britain), 696
Pope, Alexander, 301
popular culture:
during English Civil War, 218
in fifteenth and sixteenth centuries,
16-18, 119-20
in Second Industrial Revolution, 773-78
Popular Front (France), 1018-19, 1046, 1047
Popular Front (Spain), 1043
Popular Movement for the Liberation of
Angola, 1174
Popular Republican Movement (MRP;
France), 1128-29
population growth, 285
agriculture and, 285, 350
in eighteenth century, 364-66, 365
in England and Great Britain, 187-88,
192, 283
in fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries,
4, 15-16, 19-21, 166
in France, 20, 364, 364, 366
in late nineteenth and early twentieth
centuries, 758-63
in late sixteenth and seventeenth cen
turies, 20, 128—29, 170
in medieval period, 19-21
in the Netherlands, 234, 364
in nineteenth century, 513, 515-17, 743
in Spain, 20, 364
after World War II, 1124, 1221, 1222
populists, in Russia, 715
Portrait of an Officer of the Chasseurs Com
manding a Charge (Gericault), 583,
584
Portsmouth, Treaty of (1905), 721
Portugal, 204, 206, 280
absolutism in, 246, 249
agriculture in, 519
American Revolution and, 418
authoritarianism in, 993
Catholic Church in, 87, 249, 338-39, 792
colonies of, 240, 338, 388, 389
democratization of, 1186
as emerging state, 18
Enlightenment in, 323
in European organizations, 1226, 1227,
1229
land ownership in, 249
liberal movements in, 587
merged with Spain, 172
migration from, 762, 1185
military dictatorship in, 1002, 1047, 1048,
1185-86
Napoleonic Wars and, 500
in NATO, 1115
in nineteenth and twentieth centuries,
641, 821, 824, 826
overseas trade of, 73, 373, 388-89, 418
population of, 20, 516
post-World War 11 economic conditions in,
1123
post-World War 11 politics in, 1106, 1176,
'll 85-86
representative government in, 588
textile manufacturing in, 515
tourism in, 1143
in War of the Spanish Succession, 280
in World War I, 920
Portuguese Empire, 240, 338, 388
decolonization of, 1106, 1174, 1185-86
exploration and conquests of, 1, 35-42,
36, 40, 73