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The Portable Edmund Burke

ISBN: 9780140267600 | 0140267603
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics)
Pub. Date: 7/1/1999

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SummaryTable of Contents
The intellectual wellspring of modern political convervatism, 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 Edmun... MORE

Introductionix(32)
Suggestions for Further Readingxli(2)
A Note on the Selectionsxliii
I. CULTURE AND HISTORY3(128)
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The Reformer
3(11)
A Notebook of Edmund Burke
14(15)
A Vindication of Natural Society
29(34)
A Philosophical Inquiry into the Origins of Our Ideas of the Sublime and the Beautiful
63(19)
Fragment--An Essay Towards an History of the Laws of England
82(8)
Book Reviews in the Annual Register
90(4)
Speech on the Repeal of the Marriage Act
94(4)
Speeches on Religious Establishment and Toleration
98(33)
II. POLITICS AND SOCIETY131(102)
Thoughts on the Present Discontents
131(19)
Speech on the Middlesex Elections
150(5)
Speech at Mr. Burke's Arrival in Bristol
155(3)
Speech on Economical Reform
158(5)
Speech on a Bill for Shortening the Duration of Parliaments
163(11)
Speech on a Committee to Inquire into the State of the Representation of the Commons in Parliament
174(9)
Sketch of a Negro Code
183(11)
Thoughts and Details on Scarcity
194(19)
A Letter to a Noble Lord
213(20)
III. AMERICA AND REVOLUTION233(62)
An Account of the European Settlements in America
233(13)
Observations on a Late Publication Entitled "The Present State of the Nation"
246(8)
Speech on American Taxation
254(5)
Speech on Conciliation with the Colonies
259(15)
Address to the British Colonists in North America
274(8)
A Letter to the Sheriffs of Bristol on the Affairs of America
282(13)
IV. IRELAND AND CATHOLICISM295(68)
Tract on the Popery Laws
295(15)
Address at Bristol on the Gordon Riots and the Catholic Question
310(16)
A Letter to a Peer of Ireland on the Penal Laws Against Irish Catholics
326(4)
Letter to Sir Hercules Langrishe
330(18)
A Letter to Richard Burke, Esq., on Protestant Ascendancy in Ireland
348(8)
A Letter to William Smith, Esq., on the Subject of Catholic Emancipation
356(7)
V. INDIA AND COLONIALISM363(46)
Speech on Mr. Fox's East India Bill
363(15)
Speech on the Nabob of Arcot's Debt
378(10)
Speeches on the Impeachment of Warren Hastings
388(21)
VI. THE FRENCH REVOLUTION409(124)
Speech on the Army Estimates
409(7)
Reflections on the Revolution in France
416(58)
An Appeal from the New to the Old Whigs
474(25)
Thoughts on French Affairs
499(8)
Letter to a Member of the National Assembly
507(10)
Letter on a Regicide Peace
517(16)
VII. SELECTED LETTERS533
To the Duke of Richmond
533(1)
To William Burgh, Esq.
534(2)
To the Marquis of Rockingham
536(5)
To Mons. Dupont
541(9)
To Philip Francis, Esq.
550(3)
To Captain Mercer
553(3)
To Chevalier de la Bintinnaye
556(1)
To William Weddell, Esq.
557(12)
To William Elliot
569


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