Foreign Affections
Subtitle: Essays On Edmund Burke (Critical Conditions)
Publisher: University of Notre Dame Press; University of Notre Dame Press in association with Field Day
Published: June 30, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 220
ISBN-13: 9780268025700
Subjects: Emigration & Immigration; Europe - Ireland; Sociology; 1729-1797; 18th century; Burke, Edmund,; Colonies; Contributions in political sci; Great Britain; History; Liberty; History: World
First sentence: It is so routine to declare that Edmund Burke attacked the universal appeal of French revolutionary claims and defended those of national provincial traditions, that it is easy to underrate his own understanding of what true universality was.