Empire and Revolution : : The Political Life of Edmund Burke / / Richard Bourke.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter PUP eBook-Package Pilot Project 2014-2015
• VerfasserIn: Bourke, Richard,
• Place / Publishing House: Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2015]; ©2015
• Year of Publication: 2015
• Edition: Pilot project. eBook available to selected US libraries only
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource :; 9 halftones. 1 table. 2 maps.

Edmund Burke (1730-97) lived during one of the most extraordinary periods of world history. He grappled with the significance of the British Empire in India, fought for reconciliation with the American colonies, and was a vocal critic of national policy during three European wars. He also advocated reform in Britain and became a central protagonist in the great debate on the French Revolution. Drawing on the complete range of printed and manuscript sources, Empire and Revolution offers a vivid reconstruction of the major concerns of this outstanding statesman, orator, and philosopher. In restoring Burke to his original political and intellectual context, this book overturns the conventional picture of a partisan of tradition against progress and presents a multifaceted portrait of one of the most captivating figures in eighteenth-century life and thought. A boldly ambitious work of scholarship, this book challenges us to rethink the legacy of Burke and the turbulent era in which he played so pivotal a role.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- Chronology -- Introduction -- PART I. Reason and Prejudice Early Formation, 1730- 1750 -- Overview -- 1. The Blackwater, Ballitore, Trinity, and The Reformer -- PART II. Antinomianism and Enlightenment -- Overview -- 2. Natural Society and Natural Religion, 1750- 1756 -- 3. The Philosophical Enquiry: Science of the Passions, 1757 -- 4. Conquest and Assimilation, 1757-1765 -- PART III. Party, Sovereignty and Empire, 1765- 1774 -- Overview -- 5. Party, Popularity and Dissent: Britain and Ireland, 1765-1774 -- 6. Collision with the Colonies, 1765-1774 -- 7. A Revolution in Ideas: Th e Indian Empire, 1766-1773 -- Part IV. Conquest, Conciliation and Representation, 1774- 1785 -- Overview -- 8. Representation and Reform: Britain and Ireland, 1774- 1784 -- 9. Consent and Conciliation: America, 1774- 1783 -- 10. A Dreadful State of Things: Madras and Bengal, 1777- 1785 -- Part V. Whiggism, Jacobinism, Indianism and Ascendancy, 1785- 1797 -- Overview -- 11. The Advent of Crisis: India, Britain and France, 1785- 1790 -- 12. The Opening of the Hastings Impeachment, 1786- 1788 -- 13. The Great Primaeval Contract: Reflections on the Revolution in France, 1790 -- 14. Whig Principles and Jacobin Dogma, 1791- 1793 -- 15. The Pursuit of Hastings, 1788- 1796 -- 16. Revolutionary Crescendo: Britain, Ireland and France, 1793- 1797 -- Conclusion -- Index