Reflections on the Revolution in France : and on the proceedings in certain societies in London relative to that event
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Reflections on the Revolution in France : and on the proceedings in certain societies in London relative to that event
(Penguin classics)
Penguin, 2004
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Bibliography: p. [399]-401
"Reissued with updated introduction and bibliographical note and new curriculum vitae of Edmund Burke 2004"-- T.p. verso
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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.
Table of Contents
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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