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Chinese opera, 91
Chomsky, Noam, 85
Chongqing, 103
“Christian Confucians,” 127
Christianity, 76, 81, 87, 88, 97–98, 122, 124, 125, 127, 172, 262
Christmas, 87–88
Chrysler, 44
Churchill, Winston S., 47, 168, 180, 196, 254
Civil Rights Act (1964), 283
Civil War, U.S., 194
Clark, Gregory, 67
climate change, 33–34, 40, 85
Clinton, Bill, 245–46, 247, 249–50, 272, 283
clocks, 69, 71, 124n
clothing, 88–90
CNN, 96
coal, 33–34, 65, 103–4
Coca-Cola, 58
Cold War, 4, 8–9, 20, 38, 141, 143, 144, 163–66, 199, 244–45, 247, 251, 254–56, 271, 274, 277, 284
collectivization, 117
colonialism, 36, 37, 57, 60, 65, 78–83, 129, 156, 161, 195
Columbus, Christopher, 62, 80
commodity prices, 30, 31
communism, 10, 12, 23–24, 38, 101, 102, 106–17, 119–20, 126–29, 135, 149–50, 157, 158, 167, 229, 251
Compagne des Indes, 80
competition, 212–13, 225–26, 243–50
computers, 92–93, 96, 112–13, 135, 142, 208, 215, 224–25
computer science, 208, 215
Confucianism, 73, 74, 97–98, 122–27, 137, 169
Congo, 9, 20, 80
Congressional Record, 204
Congress Party (India), 156, 178, 179–80
Conrad, Joseph, 85
conservatives, 74, 141–42, 247, 253
construction industry, 30, 104
consumer demand, 21, 151–52, 218–19
contracts, 125–26, 150
Convention on the Rights of the Child,
223
Cooper, Richard, 217, 218
Copernicus, Nicolaus, 68
corporations, 227–28
foreign investment by, 80, 202–3
multinational, 2–3, 57–61, 150, 258
regulation of, 221, 224
savings of, 217–18
taxation of, 223
see also specific corporations
corruption, 110, 114, 130–32, 156–57,
229
Cortés, Hernán, 80
Coubertin, Pierre de, Baron, 187
Council on Foreign Relations, 48, 235,
279
Counter-Reformation, 187
Courage Matters (McCain), 276–77
credit, xii, 43, 140, 152–53, 228
credit cards, 46, 152, 217
credit-default swaps, 43
cricket, 154
crop yields, 32–33
Cultural Revolution, 117, 129
currency rates, 24, 26, 36, 105, 200, 222, 241–42, 267–68, 280–82
current-account deficits, 216, 217
Curry, Boykin, 45
czars, Russian, 73, 83–84, 191
Czechoslovakia, 252
Dalai Lama, 141
Darfur crisis, 31, 42, 131, 273
Darul Uloom Deoband movement, 15
Das, Gurcharan, 151
debt, national, 28, 46–49, 140, 217–19, 241–42, 272
Defense Department, U.S., 262
Dell, Michael, 147
Deming Prizes, 153
democracy, 40, 53, 57, 59, 91, 108, 109, 112–17, 120, 135, 141, 145, 150, 152, 154, 156–62, 167, 169, 172, 173, 176, 178–83, 232–38, 242, 264, 273–74
Democratic Party, 59, 235, 255, 278–79, 280, 282
Deng Xiaoping, 102, 117, 118, 129, 134
Depression, Great, 25
derivatives market, 222
Deshmukh, Vilasrao, 150
developing countries, 24, 26, 28, 30, 36, 49, 53, 55, 91, 97, 102, 106, 108, 111, 118–19, 151–53, 157–62, 169, 175, 177, 181–82, 209, 224
see also specific countries
Diamond Jubilee (1897), 184–85, 186, 188, 191
dictatorship, 75, 112–17, 274
Diderot, Denis, 123
Diplomacy (Kissinger), 245
disease, 70, 80, 149
Dobbs, Lou, 282
Doha trade talks, 5
dollar, value of, 25, 36, 200, 241, 267–68, 281, 282
Dominican Republic, 157
Donilon, Thomas, 259
Dow Jones Industrial Average, xi
“Dream Team,” 147
drug cartels, 5, 269
Dubai, 3, 8, 17, 32
Dutch East India Company, 80
East Asia, 20, 23, 29, 32, 36, 52, 64n, 65, 122, 133, 214, 241–42, 245
East Asian crisis (1997), 55, 133, 138, 241, 245
East Asian Summit, 133
East Germany, 24, 244
East Indies, 79
East Timor, 245
Eberstadt, Nicholas, 213, 214n
economic risk, 43–44
Ecuador, 44
education, 48, 58, 82–83, 108–9, 134, 155, 157–58, 160, 161, 187, 204–12, 215, 218–19, 225, 233
efficiency, 32, 152, 212, 228, 283
Egypt, 8, 11, 12, 23, 84
Eisenhower, Dwight D., 199, 254
ElBaradei, Mohamed, 175
elections, U.S.:
of 1984, 251
of 1992, 245
of 2008, 276
electricity, 33
Emory-Georgia Tech Nanotechnology Center for Personalized and Predictive Oncology, 201
energy resources, 30–34, 38, 128, 131, 176, 232, 233
Engels, Friedrich, 85
engineers, 204–8
English language, 81, 85, 92–93, 96, 151, 167, 168, 173, 186–87, 224
Enlightenment, 122–25
Enron Corp., 221
entitlements,