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Edmund Burke - Revolutionary Writings: Reflections on the Revolution in France and the First Letter on a Regicide Peace - 9780521605090 - V9780521605090
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Revolutionary Writings: Reflections on the Revolution in France and the First Letter on a Regicide Peace

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Description for Revolutionary Writings: Reflections on the Revolution in France and the First Letter on a Regicide Peace Paperback. An accessible and annotated edition of Burke's Reflections on the Revolution in France with the first Letter on a Regicide Peace. Editor(s): Hampsher-Monk, Iain. Series: Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought. Num Pages: 419 pages. BIC Classification: 1DDF; 3JH; HBJD; HBLL; HBTV2. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 217 x 138 x 20. Weight in Grams: 580.
Burke's Reflections on the Revolution in France was the first sustained theoretical critique of the French Revolution; and is now recognised as the classic statement of modern conservatism. Reflections surveys the British political culture of traditionalism, gradualism and deference, and contrasts it with the French Revolutionaries' programme of appeal to abstract right, transformational change and popular agency. Ultimately Burke advocated a counterrevolutionary war and the restoration of the French monarchy. This accessible new edition brings together for the first time Burke's first and last published thoughts on the revolution including as it does the first Letter on a Regicide Peace; ... Read more

Product Details

Publisher
Cambridge University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
450
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Series
Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought
Condition
New
Number of Pages
419
Place of Publication
Cambridge, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780521605090
SKU
V9780521605090
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About Edmund Burke
Iain Hampsher-Monk is Professor of Political Theory in the Department of Politics, University of Exeter, where he teaches a wide range of courses at undergraduate and postgraduate level, and where he was also Head of Department. He served on two national Research Assessment Panels (2001 and 2008). In 1980 he founded, with his then colleague Janet Coleman, the journal History ... Read more

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