An edition of Burke's politics
(1959)
Burke's politics
selected writings and speeches on reform, revolution and war
[1st ed.].
by Edmund Burke
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Burke's politics: selected writings and speeches on reform, revolution and war
1959, A.A. Knopf
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Table of Contents
1.
Discontents in the kingdom -- -- 2.
The British Empire and the American Revolution:
The genesis of the crisis ;
Taxation of the American colonies ;
Conciliation with the colonies ;
The war with America -- -- 3.
Bristol, Ireland, and commercial freedom:
The representative and his constituents ;
The duties of constituents ;
British mercantilism and Irish trade -- -- 4.
The oppression of Catholics:
The Savile Act, the Gordon riots, and Burke's loss of the Bristol seat ;
The Popery laws in Ireland ;
First Catholic relief measures in Ireland -- -- 5.
Administrative and constitutional reform:
Economical reform ;
Parliamentary reform ;
The duration of parliaments ;
The state of the representation -- -- 6.
India:
The East India Company and the rise of its empire ;
The crisis in the company's affairs ;
Fox's East India bill -- -- 7.
The French Revolution:
The fall of the old regime ;
The character of the revolution ;
The disciples of Rousseau ;
"The idea of a people" -- -- 8.
The war with Jacobin France:
The French threat to the European system ;
The outbreak of war ;
The policy of the allies ;
The Christian commonwealth of Europe -- -- 9.
Ireland and Catholic political emancipation:
The question of the franchise ;
The Protestant ascendancy ;
Catholicism and Jacobinism in Ireland ;
"This epidemical distemper" -- -- 10.
A letter to a noble lord.
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