Empire and Revolution : the Political Life of Edmund Burke /

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Edmund Burke (1730-97) lived during one of the most extraordinary periods of world history. He grappled with the significance of the British Empire in India, fought for reconciliation with the American colonies, and was a vocal critic of national policy during three European wars. He also advocated...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Bourke, Richard
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2015.
Temas:
Burke, Edmund, > 1729-1797.
Burke, Edmund, > 1729-1797
Burke, Edmund > 1729-1797
Burke, Edmund.
1700-1799
Political scientists > Great Britain > Biography.
Statesmen > Great Britain > Biography.
Politologues > Grande-Bretagne > Biographies.
Hommes d'État > Grande-Bretagne > Biographies.
Political scientists
Politics and government
Statesmen
Politik
Statsmän.
Politiska förhållanden > historia.
Great Britain > Politics and government > 18th century.
Grande-Bretagne > Politique et gouvernement > 18e siècle.
Great Britain
Grande-Bretagne.
Biography
Biographies
Biographies.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction
  • Part I. Reason and prejudice: early formation, 1730-1750
  • The Blackwater, Ballitore, Trinity, and the reformer
  • Part II. Antinomianism and enlightenment: intellectual formation, 1750-1765
  • Natural society and natural religion, 1750-1756
  • The philosophical enquiry: science of the passions, 1757
  • Conquest and assimilation, 1757-1765
  • Part III. Party, sovereignty and empire, 1765-1774
  • Party, popularity and dissent: Britain and Ireland, 1765-1774
  • Collision with the colonies, 1765-1774
  • A revolution in ideas: the Indian empire, 1766-1774
  • Part IV. Conquest, conciliation and representation, 1774-1785
  • Representation and reform: Britain and Ireland, 1774-1784
  • Consent and conciliation: America, 1774-1783
  • A dreadful state of things: Madras and Bengal, 1777-1785
  • Part V. Whiggism, Jacobinism, Indianism and ascendancy, 1785-1797
  • The advent of crisis: Britain, India and France, 1785-1790
  • The opening of the Hastings Impeachment, 1786-1788
  • The great primaeval contract: reflections on the revolution in France, 1790
  • Whig principles and Jacobin dogma, 1791-1793
  • The pursuit of Hastings, 1788-1796
  • Revolutionary crescendo: Britain, Ireland and France, 1793-1797
  • Conclusion.

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