Essays on England, Ireland, and Empire : : Volume VI / / John Stuart Mill; ed. by John Robson.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Archive 1933-1999
• VerfasserIn: Mill, John Stuart,
• MitwirkendeR: Hamburger, Joseph,; Robson, John M.,
• TeilnehmendeR: Hamburger, Joseph.
• HerausgeberIn: Robson, John,
• Place / Publishing House: Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2017]; ©1982
• Year of Publication: 2017
• Language: English
• Series: Collected Works of John Stuart Mill
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (744 p.)

John Stuart Mill's political essays are a blend of the practical and the theoretical. In this volume are gathered together those in which the practical emphasis is more marked; those in which theory is predominant are found in Essays on Politics and Society, Vols XVIII and XIX of the Collected Works. The Essays on England, Ireland, and the Empire are mainly from Mill's early career as a propagandist for the Philosophic Radicals (a term he himself coined). They provide a contemporary running account of British political issues at home and abroad, with a vigorous and sometimes acerbic commentary. Historians as well as political scientists will find interesting details of the view from the radical side, and all students of Mill will welcome the further elucidation of his development. Of special interest are his precocious if tendentious attack on Hume's History of England, and his reactions to Canadian and Irish issues, the latter being the subject of a previously unpublished manuscript. The textual apparatus includes a collation of the manuscript materials and identification of Mill's "ations and references.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- Textual Introduction -- Brodie’s History of the British Empire (1824) -- Ireland (1825) -- The Game Laws (1826) -- Intercourse Between the United States and the British Colonies in the West Indies (1828) -- Notes On the Newspapers (1834) -- The Close of the Session (1834) -- Postscript to the London Review, No. 1. (1835) -- Parliamentary Proceedings of the Session (1835) -- Postscript: The Close of the Session (1835) -- State of Politics in 1836 (1836) -- Walsh’s Contemporary History (1836) -- Fonblanque’s England under Seven Administrations (1837) -- Parties and the Ministry (1837) -- Radical Party and Canada: Lord Durham and the Canadians (1838) -- Lord Durham and His Assailants (1838) -- Lord Durham’s Return (1838) -- Reorganization of the Reform Party (1839) -- What Is to Be Done with Ireland? (1848) -- England and Ireland (1868) -- Appendices -- Index