Reflections on the revolution in France and other writings /
Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797,
Reflections on the revolution in France and other writings / Edmund Burke. - lxi, 1086 pages ; 21 cm. - Everyman's Library ; 365 . - Everyman's library (Alfred A. Knopf, Inc.) ; 365. .
Reprint of 1910 edition of: Reflections on the revolution in France published by Everyman's Library. Along with 2015 selection of other writings.
Includes bibliographical references (pages xxvii-xxix) and index.
"The most important works of Edmund Burke, the greatest political thinker of the past three centuries, are gathered here in one comprehensive volume. Accompanying his influential masterpiece, Reflections on the Revolution in France, is a selection of pamphlets, speeches, public letters, private correspondence and, for the first time, two important and previously uncollected early essays. Philosopher, statesman, and founder of conservatism, Burke was a dazzling orator and a visionary theorist who spent his long political career fighting abuses of power. He wrote at a time of great change, against the backdrop of the revolt of the American colonies, the expansion of the British Empire, the collapse of Ireland, and the French Revolution. Burke argued passionately in support of the American revolutionaries and in equally impassioned opposition to the horrors of the unfolding French Revolution. Making a case for upholding established rights and customs, and advocating incremental reform rather than radical revolutionary change, Burke's writings have profoundly influenced modern democracies up to the present day"--Page 2 of dust jacket.
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Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797 --Correspondence.
France--History--Foreign public opinion, British.--Revolution, 1789-1799
Great Britain--Politics and government--1760-1789.
United States--Politics and government--1775-1783.
Great Britain--Colonies--America--Early works to 1800.
Personal correspondence.
Reflections on the revolution in France and other writings / Edmund Burke. - lxi, 1086 pages ; 21 cm. - Everyman's Library ; 365 . - Everyman's library (Alfred A. Knopf, Inc.) ; 365. .
Reprint of 1910 edition of: Reflections on the revolution in France published by Everyman's Library. Along with 2015 selection of other writings.
Includes bibliographical references (pages xxvii-xxix) and index.
"The most important works of Edmund Burke, the greatest political thinker of the past three centuries, are gathered here in one comprehensive volume. Accompanying his influential masterpiece, Reflections on the Revolution in France, is a selection of pamphlets, speeches, public letters, private correspondence and, for the first time, two important and previously uncollected early essays. Philosopher, statesman, and founder of conservatism, Burke was a dazzling orator and a visionary theorist who spent his long political career fighting abuses of power. He wrote at a time of great change, against the backdrop of the revolt of the American colonies, the expansion of the British Empire, the collapse of Ireland, and the French Revolution. Burke argued passionately in support of the American revolutionaries and in equally impassioned opposition to the horrors of the unfolding French Revolution. Making a case for upholding established rights and customs, and advocating incremental reform rather than radical revolutionary change, Burke's writings have profoundly influenced modern democracies up to the present day"--Page 2 of dust jacket.
9780375712531 0375712534 9781841593654 1841593656
2015020950
Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797 --Correspondence.
France--History--Foreign public opinion, British.--Revolution, 1789-1799
Great Britain--Politics and government--1760-1789.
United States--Politics and government--1775-1783.
Great Britain--Colonies--America--Early works to 1800.
Personal correspondence.