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- 1From:Encyclopedia of World BiographyBIOGRAPHICAL ESSAY Perry Miller (1905-1963) was the most famous interpreter of the meaning of the New England Puritanism of the 17th century. Perry Miller was born in Chicago in 1905, received his formal...
- 2From:Encyclopedia of World BiographyBIOGRAPHICAL ESSAY John Cotton (1584-1652) was the leading clergyman of New England's first generation, a leader in civil and religious affairs, and a persuasive writer on the theory and practice of...
- 3From:Encyclopedia of World BiographyBIOGRAPHICAL ESSAY Jacob Leisler (1640-1691), colonial political leader, became de facto governor of the New York colony after leading a revolt against British officials and colonial aristocrats. Jacob Leisler,...
- 4From:Encyclopedia of World BiographyBIOGRAPHICAL ESSAY Metacom (1640-1676) was a Native American chief (sachem) whose tribe, the Wampanoags, waged the most devastating war against the Engish in early American history. King Philip/Metacom was the son...
- 5From:Yearbook of International Environmental LawThe United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) was adopted in Montego Bay, Jamaica, in 1982 following negotiations that took place at the third UN Conference on the Law of the Sea since 1973. (1) UNCLOS,...
- 6From:Encyclopedia of World BiographyBIOGRAPHICAL ESSAY Samuel Eliot Morison (1887-1976) was a leading American naval historian, biographer, and historian of Puritanism. Samuel Eliot Morison was born in Boston on July 9, 1887, into a prominent family...
- 7From:Encyclopedia of World BiographyBIOGRAPHICAL ESSAY The American historian Herbert Levi Osgood (1855-1918) was a leading authority on colonial history in America, especially the origin and development of English-American political institutions....
- 8From:Encyclopedia of World BiographyBIOGRAPHICAL ESSAY The American historian Charles McLean Andrews (1863-1943) originated the version of colonial history that places the English settlements in America within the larger context of the British Empire....
- 9From:Encyclopedia of World BiographyBIOGRAPHICAL ESSAY The English lawyer and statesman Rufus Daniel Isaacs, 1st Marquess of Reading (1860-1935), known for his brilliant legal career, was an international figure during and immediately after World War...
- 10From:Encyclopedia of World BiographyBIOGRAPHICAL ESSAY The English soldier and statesman Robert Clive, Baron Clive of Plassey (1725-1774), extended British power in India. He checked French aspirations in that area and made possible 200 years of...
- 11From:Encyclopedia of World BiographyBIOGRAPHICAL ESSAY Motilal Nehru (1861-1931) was an Indian lawyer and statesman who influenced the fate of the Indian nation not only by direct political action but also through his offspring, whom he educated....
- 12From:Encyclopedia of World BiographyBIOGRAPHICAL ESSAY Sheik Mujibur Rahman (1920-1975) was a charismatic leader who organized dissent and rebellion against the British in India, led the Bengalis of East Pakistan in their resistance to the unjust...
- 13From:Congressional Research Service (CRS) Reports and Issue BriefsUpdated June 4, 2008 Iraq has not previously had experience with a democratic form of government, although parliamentary elections were held during the period of British rule under a League of Nations mandate (from...
- 14From:Encyclopedia of World BiographyBIOGRAPHICAL ESSAY The British statesman James Andrew Broun Ramsay, 1st Marquess of Dalhousie (1812-1860), served as governor general of India from 1848 to 1856. He is noted for his vigorous, often ruthless,...
- 15From:Encyclopedia of World BiographyBIOGRAPHICAL ESSAY Herbert Macaulay (1864-1945) was a Nigerian political leader. One of the first leaders of the Nigerian opposition to British colonial rule, he was also a civil engineer, journalist, and...
- 16From:Encyclopedia of World BiographyBIOGRAPHICAL ESSAY Known as "the Tunku" in Malaysia, Tunku Abdul Rahman (1903-1990) was the first prime minister of the Federation of Malaya, and later of Malaysia. He was considered the "father of the nation."...
- 17From:Encyclopedia of World BiographyBIOGRAPHICAL ESSAY The Burmese political leader Aung San (1915-1947) was the driving force behind the nationalist movement that won Burma (now Myanmar) its freedom from British colonial rule in 1948. Born in the...
- 18From:Encyclopedia of World BiographyBIOGRAPHICAL ESSAY William Alexander Bustamante (1884-1977) was a Jamaican labor leader who became Jamaica's first chief minister under limited self-government and the first prime minister after independence in 1962....
- 19From:Encyclopedia of World BiographyBIOGRAPHICAL ESSAY Ne Win (born 1911) was a Burmese general and political leader who twice seized power from elected premier U Nu and ruled Burma (now Myanmar) as a repressive and isolationist socialist government...
- 20From:Encyclopedia of World BiographyBIOGRAPHICAL ESSAY Lee Kuan Yew (born 1923) became prime minister of Singapore in June 1959. During his administration Singapore became part of Malaysia in September 1963 and attained independence in August 1965...