Temma Kaplan - Democracy: A World History

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Richard I, King, of (Richard the Lion

Heart), 17 Robinson, JoAnn, 91 Roman Empire, 13-14 Roman Republic, 11-13 Roosevelt, Eleanor, 86 Russia, 49-50, 66-68, 70-72, 76. See also Soviet Union

Saadawi, Nawal el, 113 Sangats (meetings), 18, 19 Santo Domingo, 61 Scandinavia, 96 Schwimmer, Rosika, 68-70, 69 secret ballot, 50 Senegal, 53

serfs (feudal peasants), 49

Sikhs, 18-21, 19

Silinga, Annie, 89

Sisulu, Walter, 80

slavery, 37, 41, 43-44, 53-54

Socrates, 10

Solon, 8, 9

South Africa, 77-82, 82,

86-91, 94, 96 South Asia, 18-21, 30 Soviet Union, 100, 116-17.

See also Russia soviets: in China, 75, 121; in Russia, 67,

71-72, 76 Spain: democratic movements in, 126; Muslims in, 16; Napoleon Bonaparte and, 47; urbanization in, 21-26, 30, 36; women's movements in, 112-13 Sparta, 10

Stanton, Elizabeth Cady, 53-55 Stanton, Henry, 53 strikes: in East Germany, 97-98; in France, 103-6; in India, 83; in Mexico, 65; in Poland, 114-17 student demonstrations: in China, 74-75, 121-23, 122; in France, 101-6, 104; in Mexico, 106-8; Vietnam War and, 101-6, 104; in West Germany, 99-100, 102 students, 95-96 Sufis, 20 Sun Yat-sen, 74 Switzerland, 96

Taiping Rebellion (China), 55-58 Tambo, Oliver, 80 taxation, 17, 20, 33, 42, 72-74 Ten Commandments, 14 Ten Years' War (1868-78), 60 Teresa of Avila, Santa, 25 Teutonic Knights, 16-17

Tiananmen Square Uprising (China), 121 Tin Oo, U, 125

Tiradentes (Joaquim Jose da Silva Xavier), 42, 42

Toussaint l'Ouverture, Fran^ois-

Dominique, 37 trade unions, 50, 66-67 Trotsky, Leon, 72 Tunisia, 125-26 Turkey, 96 Turner, Nat, 37

Umar, 15

umma (community), 15 United Nations, 86

United Nations Economic, Social, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), 86 United States: Chile and, 117, 118; Civil Rights movement in, 77, 90, 91-94, 99, 113; Constitution and, 3; democratic movements in, 126; higher education in, 95-96; racial discrimination in, 77; segregation and desegregation in, 81, 98-99; slavery in, 43, 53-54; Vietnam and, 101-2; women's suffrage movements in, 53 -55; workers' rights in, 65. See also American colonies Universal Declaration of Human Rights

(UN), 86, 87 universal male suffrage: in England, 36,

50, 52; in France, 51; in Mexico, 49 universities, 95-96

urbanization: in England, 26-30; in South Asia, 18-21, 30; in Spain, 21-26, 30, 36

Verdi, Giuseppe, 51 Vietnam, 101-2, 104

voting rights: universal male suffrage and, 36, 49, 50, 51, 52; women and, 52-55, 58, 66, 68-70, 74, 75, 76

Wagner Act (1935), 65

Walentynowicz, Anna, 114, 115, 116

Walesa, Lech, 114, 116

Walvyn, William, 26, 29

Warren, Earl, 98

Warren, Joseph, 35

water, 5-8

Wei Jingsheng, 121

Wojtyla, Karol (Pope John Paul II), 115 Wollstonecraft, Mary, 37 women: American Revolution and, 34; French Revolution and, 36-39, 40, 44-45; strikes and, 97; voting rights and, 52-55, 58, 66, 68-70, 74, 75, 76 women's movements: in Burma

(Myanmar), 122-25, 124; in Chile, 113, 117-120, 119; in China, 121-23,

122; in Egypt, 113; in India, 113; in Kenya, 109-10, 110; in Nigeria, 72-74; in Poland, 114-17; in Russia, 70-71; in South Africa, 80-81, 89-91; in Spain, 112-13; in the US, 113 Women's War (Nigeria), 74 World War I, 70, 74, 83

World War II, 77, 80, 85-86, 101 Yemen, 125

Zapata, Emiliano, 62-65, 63 Zoroastrianism, 14 Zulus, 78

 

 

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