A History of Modern Europe - From the Renaissance to the Present
A-100 Index
William, prince of Wales, 1183
William 1, emperor of Germany (king of
Prussia), 649, 661, 662, 667, 668,
670, 671, 731
William I, king of Netherlands, 575, 598
William I, prince of Orange, 198, 199, 201
William II, emperor of Germany, 672-73,
672, 779, 834, 870, 871-72, 873,
874, 879, 883
abdication of, 923, 957
in World War I, 887, 898, 921
William II, prince of Orange, 232
William III, king of England, 208, 228-30,
229, 232, 240, 279, 314, 390
William IV, king of England, 608
William V, prince of Orange, 424
Wilson, Daniel, 737
Wilson, Harold, 1181, 1226
Wilson, Woodrow, 914, 919, 921-22, 925,
969, 992
Versailles Treaty and, 956, 957, 960-63,
973
Wind in the Willows (Grahame), 809
Windischgratz, Prince Alfred, 633, 641
Winthrop, John, 196
witchcraft and magic, 17, 119, 121-22
Witte, Sergei, 722, 723-24
Wolfe, James, 400-401, 400
Wollstonecraft, Mary, 458, 459
Wolsey, Thomas, 112, 114, 179, 180, 192
women:
accused as witches, 121-22
in Austria-Hungary, 911
on bicycles, 780
charitable work of, 545
church attendance of, 777
Diderot on, 320
education of, 328, 337, 774-76
in 1848 unrest, 617-19, 618, 641
in English Civil War, 221
Enlightenment and, 328, 348
excluded from clubs, 544
in French Revolution, 448, 449-50, 450,
454, 455, 458, 466, 467, 470, 471
in Germany, 790-91, 797, 979, 1024,
1025-26, 1086
in Great Britain, 539, 546, 553, 554, 696,
796-98,910-11,979, 1065
in Italian Renaissance, 61-62, 66
in labor unions, 561, 787
literacy and, 328
Locke on, 315
in modern France, 538, 553, 566, 617-19,
6/8, 627, 732, 734,911, 1140
in Napoleonic Code, 496
in Netherlands, 239
in nineteenth century, 537-38, 539,
553-54
as novelists, 328
in Paris Commune, 732, 732
in Portugal, 548
in post-World War II era, 1140
Reformation role of, 121-22
salons hosted by, 333, 334, 334
in science, 303—5
as socialists, 791
in Soviet Union, 1039-40
in Tudor England, 192, 193
Versailles Treaty and, 973
voting rights for, 430, 458, 539, 618-19,
796-98, 899, 979, 1010
in white-collar jobs, 772
as workers, 367, 368, 378, 553-54, 562,
747, 748, 755, 763-66, 772, 787,
796, 910-11
in World War I, 910-11
in World War II, 1065, 1086
Women’s Social and Political Union (Great
Britain), 798
Womens Voice, The, 618
Woodforde, Parson, 349
woolens industry, 22, 23, 46
Wordsworth, William, 582
workers:
children as, 555-56, 555, 562, 609, 742,
764, 764
class consciousness of, 559-61, 693, 763,
764
de-skilling of, 763
1848 unrest and, 616, 624, 626-28, 630,
633, 637
in eighteenth century, 381, 382
in French Revolution, 455
in Industrial Revolution, 513-14, 532,
551, 553-63
insurance programs for, 784-86, 982
in Napoleonic Code, 496
in Russia, 532
Russian Revolutions and, 721-22, 931,
932, 938, 943
in Second Industrial Revolution, 761,
763-64, 767, 773
standard of living of, 556-59
wages of, 557-58
women as, 553-54, 562, 747, 748, 755,
763-66, 772, 787, 796, 910-11
workday limits for, 556, 562, 609,
618-19, 785, 786, 791, 980, 1011,
1018
in World War I, 899
see also artisans; labor unions; socialism;
strikes; specific countries
