Burke's politics
Subtitle: selected writings and speeches on reform, revolution and war
By: ed. by Ross J.H. Hoffman & Paul Levack
Contributors: Hoffman, Ross John Swartz, 1902- ed
Edition: [1st ed.].
Publisher: A.A. Knopf
Published: 1959
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 536
Copyright date: 1949
Subjects: Politics and government
Table of contents: title: 1.; title: Discontents in the kingdom -- -- 2.; title: The British Empire and the American Revolution:; title: The genesis of the crisis ;; title: Taxation of the American colonies ;; title: Conciliation with the colonies ;; title: The war with America -- -- 3.; title: Bristol, Ireland, and commercial freedom:; title: The representative and his constituents ;; title: The duties of constituents ;; title: British mercantilism and Irish trade -- -- 4.; title: The oppression of Catholics:; title: The Savile Act, the Gordon riots, and Burke's loss of the Bristol seat ;; title: The Popery laws in Ireland ;; title: First Catholic relief measures in Ireland -- -- 5.; title: Administrative and constitutional reform:; title: Economical reform ;; title: Parliamentary reform ;; title: The duration of parliaments ;; title: The state of the representation -- -- 6.; title: India:; title: The East India Company and the rise of its empire ;; title: The crisis in the company's affairs ;; title: Fox's East India bill -- -- 7.; title: The French Revolution:; title: The fall of the old regime ;; title: The character of the revolution ;; title: The disciples of Rousseau ;; title: "The idea of a people" -- -- 8.; title: The war with Jacobin France:; title: The French threat to the European system ;; title: The outbreak of war ;; title: The policy of the allies ;; title: The Christian commonwealth of Europe -- -- 9.; title: Ireland and Catholic political emancipation:; title: The question of the franchise ;; title: The Protestant ascendancy ;; title: Catholicism and Jacobinism in Ireland ;; title: "This epidemical distemper" -- -- 10.; title: A letter to a noble lord.