Reflections on the Revolution in France

Informationen zum Autor Edmund Burke Klappentext Burke's seminal work was written during the early months of the French Revolution, and it predicted with uncanny accuracy many of its worst excesses, including the Reign of Terror. A scathing attack on the revolution's attitudes to existing institutions, property and religion, it makes a cogent case for upholding inherited rights and established customs, argues for piecemeal reform rather than revolutionary change - and deplores the influence Burke feared the revolution might have in Britain. Reflections on the Revolution in France is now widely regarded as a classic statement of conservative political thought, and is one of the eighteenth century's great works of political rhetoric. Zusammenfassung Presenting a scathing attack on the French revolution's attitudes to existing institutions, property and religion, this work makes a cogent case for upholding inherited rights and established customs. It argues for piecemeal reform rather than revolutionary change, and deplores the influence the revolution might have in Britain. Inhaltsverzeichnis Reflections on the Revolution in France Acknowledgments Introduction Biographial Note Burke's Prefatory Note Reflections on the Revolution in France Notes Bibliographical Note

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Edmund Burke

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• Authors: Jacob Burckhardt, Burke, Edmund Burke, Conor O'Brien, Conor Cruise O'Brien
• Assisted by: Conor O'Brien (Editor), O'Brien Conor (Editor), S. G. Middlemore (Translation)
• Publisher: Penguin Books Uk
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.09.1982
• EAN: 9780140432046
• ISBN: 978-0-14-043204-6
• No. of pages: 400
• Dimensions: 112 mm x 181 mm x 18 mm
• Series: Longman; Penguin Classics; Penguin Classics; Longman
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Freedom, France, European History, HISTORY / Revolutionary, HISTORY / Modern / 18th Century, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, 18th century, c 1700 to c 1799, Revolutions, uprisings, rebellions, Revolutionary groups & movements, c 1789 to c 1799 (French Revolutionary period), C 1700 To C 1800, Revolutionary groups and movements, French Revolution