The Enduring Edmund Burke: Bicentennial Essays

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• Title Page 3
• Foreword 5
• Contents 7
• Editor's Preface 9
• A Note on References 10
• Introduction: Principles and Circumstances 11
• Edmund Burke and British Views of the American Revolution: A Conflict Over Rights of Sovereignty 24
• Burke and India 39
• Rereading the French Revolution: Burke and the Paradoxes of History 48
• Burke's Irish Views and Writings 62
• Edmund Burke and the Conservative Party in the Nineteenth Century 76
• The Influence of Burke's Writings in Post-Revolutionary France 85
• 'setting People on Thinking': Burke's Legacy in the Debate on Irish Affairs 94
• The Political Economy of Edmund Burke 104
• Edmund Burke's Philosophy of Rights 115
• An Empire of Peoples: Burke, Government and National Character 128

• Title Page 3
• Foreword 5
• Contents 7
• Editor's Preface 9
• A Note on References 10
• Introduction: Principles and Circumstances 11
• Edmund Burke and British Views of the American Revolution: A Conflict Over Rights of Sovereignty 24
• Burke and India 39
• Rereading the French Revolution: Burke and the Paradoxes of History 48
• Burke's Irish Views and Writings 62
• Edmund Burke and the Conservative Party in the Nineteenth Century 76
• The Influence of Burke's Writings in Post-Revolutionary France 85
• 'setting People on Thinking': Burke's Legacy in the Debate on Irish Affairs 94
• The Political Economy of Edmund Burke 104
• Edmund Burke's Philosophy of Rights 115
• An Empire of Peoples: Burke, Government and National Character 128
• The Relevance of Edmund Burke 143
• Edmund Burke and the Politicians 152
• Burke After the Cold War: Bourgeois Triumphalist or Cassandra? 159
• Edmund Burke and the British Constitution 170
• Edmund Burke and New Labour 179
• Edmund Burke and Modern British Conservatism 189
• Edmund Burke and Contemporary American Conservatism 198
• Contributors 213
• Index 217