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Online-Ressource (434 p)
ISBN:
9780813151779
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Edmund 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 thresho
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Cover; Title; Copyright; Preface; Contents; Illustrations; Introduction; I The Charm of Authorship; II Jobs for the Honest Necessitous; III A Man of Busyness and Confidence; IV The Margins of Politics; V A Landed Gentleman; VI The Growth of a Party Man; VII Apologist for Party; VIII A Lull before Storms; IX The Problem of Empire: India and Ireland; X The Problem of Empire: The American Colonies; XI The Burke Circle; XII The Dawning of Hope; XIII Serene Satisfaction; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; X; Y
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780813151779
Additional Edition:
Print version Burke and the Nature of Politics : The Age of the American Revolution
Language:
English
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