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Thomas Babington Macaulay:impeachment of Warren Hastings
This historical essay by Thomas Macaulay provides a detailed account of the day of Governor Warren Hastings' impeachment at Westminster. Includes footnotes explaining references and unfamiliar terms; includes links to famous people...
University of Groningen
American History: Biographies: Edmund Burke (1729 1797)
British statesman, parliamentary orator and political thinker, played a prominent part in all major political issues for about 30 years after 1765, and remained an important figure in the history of political theory.
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Biographies: Thomas Paine
Detailed biography of the American revolutionary writer and thinker Thomas Paine. Includes discussion of the influence of his writing on international affairs.
BBC
Bbc: History: Edmund Burke (1729 1797)
A one-page summary of the life and philosophy of influential eighteenth-century Anglo-Irish Parliamentarian Edmund Burke, whose theories of government led him to sympathize with the American colonists against the British crown, to...
University of California
Ucla: Manas: History and Politics Warren Hastings
Biography tells facts about Warren Hastings and the role he had in consolidating British power in India.
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Portrait Showing Edmund Burke
A one-page summary of the life and philosophy of influential eighteenth-century Anglo-Irish Parliamentarian Edmund Burke, whose theories of government led him to sympathize with the American colonists against the British crown, to...
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Bbc History: British History: Empire: Mary Wollstonecraft: The Dissenter
Article discusses how Wollstonecraft contributed to the expansion of women's rights in England during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Edmund Burke
(1730-1797) English statesman and author.
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Edmund Burke
(1730-1797) English statesman and author.
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Edmund Burke
(1730-1797) English statesman and author.
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Edmund Burke
Chiefly remembered for his support of the American colonies in the struggle against King George III that led to the American Revolution, as well as for his strong opposition to the French Revolution.
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Edmund Burke
(1729-1797) An Anglo-Irish statesman, author, orator, political theorist, and philosopher, who served for many years in the British House of Commons as a member of the Whig party.
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Edmund Burke
(1729-1797) English statesman and author of Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Edmund Burke
Edmund Burke (12 January 1729 - 9 July 1797) was an Irish statesman, author, orator, political theorist, and philosopher who, after relocating to Great Britain, served for many years in the British House of Commons as a member of the...