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Record Nr.

UNINA9910969733403321

Autore

Burke Edmund <1729-1797.>

Titolo

Letters on a regicide peace / / foreword by Francis Canavan ; [introduction by E.J. Payne]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Indianapolis, : Liberty Fund, 1999

ISBN

1-61487-781-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (449 p.)

Collana

Select works of Edmund Burke : a new imprint of the Payne edition ; ; v. 3

Altri autori (Persone)

CanavanFrancis <1917-2009.>

PayneEdward John <1844-1904.>

Disciplina

320.9033

Soggetti

Great Britain Politics and government 18th century

Great Britain Colonies America

France History Revolution, 1789-1799

Great Britain Relations France

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Originally published: Oxford : Clarendon Press, 1874-1878.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

""Edmund Burke, The Select Works of Edmund Burke, Volume 3 ""; ""Front Matter ""; ""Works Title Page ""; ""Title Page ""; ""Copyright Details ""; ""Table of Contents ""; ""Editor's Foreword, p. viii ""; ""Editor's Note, p. xi ""; ""Introduction by E.J. Payne, p. 3 ""; ""Letters on a Regicide Peace ""; ""Letter No . 1. On the Overtures of Peace, p. 59 ""; ""Letter No. 2. Genius and Character of the French Revolution, p. 153 ""; ""Letter No. 3. Proposals for Peace, p. 191 ""; ""Letter No. 4. To the Earl Fitzwilliam, p. 307 ""; ""Notes, p. 395 ""

Sommario/riassunto

This famed Payne edition of Select Works of Edmund Burke is universally revered by students of English history and political thought. Volume 1 contains Burke's brilliant defense of the American colonists' complaints of British policy, including "Thoughts on the Cause of the Present Discontents" (1770), "Speech on American Taxation" (1774), and "Speech on Conciliation" (1775). Volume 2 consists of Burke's renowned Reflections on the Revolution in France. Volume 3 presents Burke's Four Letters on the Proposals for Peace with the Regicide Directory of France -- generally styled Letters on a Regicide Peace (1795-1796). The Letters, Payne believed, deserve to "rank even before



Burke's] Reflections, and to be called the writer's masterpiece." Faithfully reproduced in each volume are E. J. Payne's notes and introductory essays. Francis Canavan, one of the great Burke scholars of the twentieth century, has added forewords and a biographical note on Payne. In the companion volume, Canavan has collected seven of Burke's major contributions to English political thinking on representation in Parliament, on economics, on the political oppression of the peoples of India and Ireland, and on the enslavement of African blacks. The volume concludes with a select bibliography on Edmund Burke.