LEADER 04086nam 2200553 450 001 9910787484303321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a0-8131-6251-3 035 $a(CKB)3710000000334553 035 $a(EBL)1915757 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001432333 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11851498 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001432333 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11390628 035 $a(PQKB)11520190 035 $a(OCoLC)933516057 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse44274 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1915757 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr11007426 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL691479 035 $a(OCoLC)900344972 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1915757 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000334553 100 $a20150128h19571957 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aBurke and the nature of politics $ethe age of the american revolution /$fCarl B. Cone 210 1$a[Lexington, Kentucky] :$cThe University Press of Kentucky,$d1957. 210 4$dİ1957 215 $a1 online resource (434 p.) 300 $aIncludes index. 311 $a1-322-60197-6 311 $a0-8131-5177-5 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aPreface -- Introduction -- The charm of authorship -- Jobs for the honest necessitous -- A man of busyness and confidence -- The margins of politics -- A landed gentleman -- The growth of a party man -- Apologist for party -- A lull before storms -- The problem of empire : India and Ireland -- The problem of empire : the American colonies -- The Burke circle -- The dawning of hope -- Serene satisfaction. 330 $aEdmund Burke in recent years has assumed extraordinary stature in American political thinking as the father of neoconservatism. In this book, the first of a two-volume biography of this eighteenth-century English statesman, Mr. Cone brings important new evidence to his thesis that during the age of the American Revolution Burke was significant more as the politician and the party man than as a systematic political philosopher. This volume deals with Burke's career to 1782, when the Marquis of Rockingham, to whom Burke had attached himself seventeen years earlier, stood once again on the threshold of the prime ministership. In this period Burke was the voice--and frequently the behind-the-scenes leader--of the parliamentary opposition to George III, Lord North, and the "King's Friends." Ever since the repeal of the Stamp Act in 1766, he and his colleagues had struggled against the government over the great imperial questions of America, India, and Ireland and over the "influence" of the crown in domestic affairs through the patronage of the royal household offices. Mr. Cone stresses the importance of Burke's practical contributions to the art of government. By his partisan activities, his leadership in parliament, and his political writings, Burke gave expression to new ideas about the nature of English politics and emphasized the value of political parties as necessary instruments of free government. Indeed, Mr. Cone states, in so far as Burke the conservative championed the cause of party government, he did more than the political radical to change the nature of the cabinet, of parliament, of their relationship to one another, of the monarchy and its relationship to the cabinet and parliament--in short, to revolutionize the practical working of the political and constitutional system of England. Based upon manuscript sources which were not opened to general scholarship until 1949, this book contains much new information about Burke's private life and provides a provocative reevaluation of his political career in the age of the American Revolution. 607 $aGreat Britain$xPolitics and government$y1760-1820 676 $a923.242 700 $aCone$b Carl B.$01470325 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910787484303321 996 $aBurke and the nature of politics$93682083 997 $aUNINA