Author: Edmund BurkePublisher:
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 456
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The Political Tracts and Speeches of Edmund Burke
Author: Edmund BurkePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 456
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Political Tracts and Speeches of Edmund Burke
Author: Speech on Conciliation with America
Author: Edmund BurkePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 102
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Edmund Burke
Author: Jesse NormanPublisher: Basic Books
ISBN: 0465044948
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 338
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A provocative biography of Edmund Burke, the underappreciated founder of modern conservatism Edmund Burke is both the greatest and the most underrated political thinker of the past three hundred years. A brilliant 18th-century Irish philosopher and statesman, Burke was a fierce champion of human rights and the Anglo-American constitutional tradition, and a lifelong campaigner against arbitrary power. Once revered by an array of great Americans including Presidents Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson, Burke has been almost forgotten in recent years. But as politician and political philosopher Jesse Norman argues in this penetrating biography, we cannot understand modern politics without him. As Norman reveals, Burke was often ahead of his time, anticipating the abolition of slavery and arguing for free markets, equality for Catholics in Ireland, responsible government in India, and more. He was not always popular in his own lifetime, but his ideas about power, community, and civic virtue have endured long past his death. Indeed, Burke engaged with many of the same issues politicians face today, including the rise of ideological extremism, the loss of social cohesion, the dangers of the corporate state, and the effects of revolution on societies. He offers us now a compelling critique of liberal individualism, and a vision of society based not on a self-interested agreement among individuals, but rather on an enduring covenant between generations. Burke won admirers in the American colonies for recognizing their fierce spirit of liberty and for speaking out against British oppression, but his greatest triumph was seeing through the utopian aura of the French Revolution. In repudiating that revolution, Burke laid the basis for much of the robust conservative ideology that remains with us to this day: one that is adaptable and forward-thinking, but also mindful of the debt we owe to past generations and our duty to preserve and uphold the institutions we have inherited. He is the first conservative. A rich, accessible, and provocative biography, Edmund Burke describes Burke's life and achievements alongside his momentous legacy, showing how Burke's analytical mind and deep capacity for empathy made him such a vital thinker-both for his own age, and for ours.thread on pub day of what people at basic like about it (editors) "You won't find a more impressive political philosopher than the 18th-century MP who more or less invented Anglosphere conservatism. And you won't find a pithier, more readable treatise on his life and works than this one." --Wall Street Journal
Selections from the Speeches and Writings of Edmund Burke
Author: Edmund BurkePublisher:
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 466
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Commerce and Manners in Edmund Burke's Political Economy
Author: Gregory M. CollinsPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108489400
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 581
Book Description
This book explores Edmund Burke's economic thought through his understanding of commerce in wider social, imperial, and ethical contexts.
Speech on Conciliation with the Colonies, (March 22, 1775).
Author: Edmund BurkeWritings and Speeches
Author: Edmund BurkePublisher:
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 484
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The Political Tracts and Speeches
Author: Edmund BurkePublisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781720988434
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 758
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The political tracts and speeches By Edmund Burke BURKE, EDMUND (1729-1797), statesman, the second son of Richard Burke, an attorney resident in Dublin, appears to have been born-for the exact date is not absolutely certain-on 12 Jan. 1729, N. S. There is no ground for the often-repeated statement that his family belonged to Limerick. His father was a protestant; his mother, whose maiden name was Nagle, was a Roman catholic. Although brought up in his father's religion, Burke was accustomed to look on Roman Catholicism as the religion of many he loved, and thus early learnt the lesson of toleration. This lesson must have been still further impressed on him when, in 1741, he was sent to a school at Ballitore, co. Kildare, kept by Abraham Shackleton, a member of the Society of Friends, from whom he declared that he gained all that was really valuable in his education. With Shackleton's son Richard he formed a friendship which lasted through life. We are delighted to publish this classic book as part of our extensive Classic Library collection. Many of the books in our collection have been out of print for decades, and therefore have not been accessible to the general public. The aim of our publishing program is to facilitate rapid access to this vast reservoir of literature, and our view is that this is a significant literary work, which deserves to be brought back into print after many decades. The contents of the vast majority of titles in the Classic Library have been scanned from the original works. To ensure a high quality product, each title has been meticulously hand curated by our staff. Our philosophy has been guided by a desire to provide the reader with a book that is as close as possible to ownership of the original work. We hope that you will enjoy this wonderful classic work, and that for you it becomes an enriching experience.
Speech on Conciliation with America, 1775
Author: Edmund BurkePublisher:
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 266
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