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Meredith, George. 1828-1909. English manners novelist. Intellectual, witty and poetic. Ordeal 1859. Egoist 1879. Dianna of the Crossways 1885.
Merezhkovsky, Dmitri. 1865-1941. Russian historical novelist. Christ and Antichrist 1896-1905.
Mihajlovitch, Dragoljub. 1893-1946. Yugoslav royalist WWII leader vs Tito. Executed for collaboration with Germany; exonerated by US.
Miller, Henry. 1891-1980. US autobiographical novelist. Tropic of Cancer 1934. Tropic of Capricorn 1939. Works banned in US for sexual content until 1964.
Miró, Joan. 1893-1974. Spanish surrealist painter. Pure colors, abstract shapes. Bird, star themes. Dog Barking at the Moon.
Mitchell, Margaret. 1900-49. US novelist. Gone with the Wind 1936.
Mitterand, François. 1916-96. Socialist president of France, 1981-95. Promoted European unity.
Modernismo. 1888-. Spanish exotic poetry movement in wake of Symbolists. Darío.
Montgomery, L.M. 1874-1942. Canadian Romantic children’s novelist. Anne of Green Gables 1908.
Monticello. 1770. Federalist style Virginian estate of Jefferson.
Moore, G. E. 1873-1958. British Realist philosopher. Principia Ethica 1903. Ideal Utilitarianism.
Moore, George. 1852-1933. Irish novelist. Confessions of a Young Man 1888. Esther Waters 1894.
Moravia, Alberto. 1907-90. Italian novelist of social alienation. The Conformist 1951.
Moreau, Gustave. 1826-1898. French Symbolist erotic painter. Salome 1876.
Morris, William. 1834-96. English poet, craftsman opposed to 19C ugliness and social inequality. Founder of Socialist League. Wallpaper, fabrics 1861.
Murdoch, Iris. 1919-99. British philosophical novelist. Under the Net 1954.
Muscadins. French Royalist youth movement after the Commune.
Mussorgsky, Modest. 1839-81. Russian Nationalist composer. Boris Gudunov 1874. Pictures at an Exhibition 1874.
Myanmar. (Burma). Pyu. Mons. 849 Pagan kingdom. 1287 Mongol. 1303-1605 Split. 1852(S)/1886(N) British under India. 1948 Independent. 1974 Socialist republic. 1988 Military coup, dictatorship. 1989 = Myanmar. 1990 elections nullified. Suu Kyi.
Narodniki. 19C Russian Socialist movement advocating land for peasants. Assassinated Alexander II. Populism.
Narvaez, Ramon. 1800-68. Spanish general supporting Isabella II vs Carlists. Prime Minister 1844-66.
Naseby, Battle. 1645. English Civil War. Fairfax and Cromwell defeat Royalists.
National Socialism. Nazism. 1919-45. German master-race nationalist Fascist movement. Anti- semitic. Individual surrenders to State will. Hitler. Drexler.
Neruda, Pablo. 1904-73. Chilean surrealist poet. A New Decade

Nihilistm. 19C Russian philosophy of skepticism associated with disheveled revolutionaries. Utilitarianism and rationalism.