Reflections on the Revolution in France and Other Writings: Edited and Introduce [Hardcover]

The most important works of Edmund Burke, the greatest political thinker of the past three centuries, are gathered here in one comprehensive volume. Accompanying his influential masterpiece, Reflections on the Revolution in France, is a selection of pamphlets, speeches, public letters, private correspondence and, for the first time, two important and previously uncollected early essays.  

Philosopher, statesman, and founder of conservatism, Burke was a dazzling orator and a visionary theorist who spent his long political career fighting abuses of power. He wrote at a time of great change, against the backdrop of the revolt of the American colonies, the expansion of the British Empire, the collapse of Ireland, and the French Revolution. Burke argued passionately in support of the American revolutionaries and in equally impassioned opposition to the horrors of the unfolding French Revolution. Making a case for upholding established rights and customs, and advocating incremental reform rather than radical revolutionary change, Burke’s writings have profoundly influenced modern democracies up to the present day.

Edited and Introduced by Jesse Norman.

Introduction
Note on the Text
Select Bibliography
Chronology

FromA Vindication of Natural Society (1756)
FromA Philosophical Inquiry into the Origin of ourIdeas of the Sublime and Beautiful (1757)
FromAn Essay towards an Abridgment of theEnglish History (1757)
On Parties (1757)
Considerations on a Militia (March 1757)
FromThoughts on the Cause of the PresentDiscontents (1770)
Speech on the Middlesex Election (7 February 1771)
Speech at the Conclusion of the Poll at Bristol(3 November 1774)
Speech on Conciliation with America (22 March 1775)
Letter to the Sheriffs of Bristol (3 April 1777)
Speech on Economical Reform (11 February 1780)
Speech on a Bill for Shortening the Duration of Parliaments (8 May lC#