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The Portable Edmund Burke (Viking portable library) (Paperback)
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all these other countries) Usually dispatched within 48 hours | |Short Description for The Portable Edmund BurkeStatesman and author, Edmund Burke was sympathetic to the American colonies and the Irish Catholics, but a fervent enemy of the French Revolution. This anthology presents selections from Burke's writings and speeches, including the celebrated "Reflections on the French Revolution."
Full description- Publisher: Viking Portable Library
- Published: 28 October 1999
- Format: Paperback 624 pages
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- Categories: Literary Essays | Politics & Government | Political Science & Theory | British & Irish History | Social & Political Philosophy
- ISBN 13: 9780140267600 ISBN 10: 0140267603
- Sales rank: 241,130
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Full description for The Portable Edmund Burke
The intellectual wellspring of modern political conservatism, Edmund Burke is also considered a significant figure in aesthetic theory and cultural studies. As a member of the House of Commons during the late eighteenth century, Burke shook Parliament with his powerful defense of the American Revolution and the rights of persecuted Catholics in England and Ireland; his indictment of the English rape of the Indian subcontinent; and, most famously, his denouncement of English Jacobin sympathizers during the French Revolution. The Portable Edmund Burke is the fullest one- volume survey of Burke's thought, with sections devoted to his writings on history and culture, politics and society, the American Revolution, Ireland, colonialism and India, and the French Revolution. This volume also includes excerpts from his letters and an informative Introduction surveying Burke's life, ideas, and his reception and influence in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
