The Useful Cobbler: Edmund Burke and the Politics of ProgressNeither a polemic nor a highly specialized study, this book is a comprehensive assessment of Burke's political thought. Using evidence from such neglected sources as Burke's essays on history and law and making full use of his extensive correspondence, the author places Burke in the context of developments in a number of areas of eighteenth-century British intellectual life, ranging from philosophy to literature, and presents him as a key figure in the evolution of the theory and practice of representative government. |
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... England the meaning of so basic a feature of representative insti- tutions and practices as parliamentary elections changed exten- sively during the seventeenth century , as a process of " selection , " in which " patrons and peers ...
... England the meaning of so basic a feature of representative insti- tutions and practices as parliamentary elections changed exten- sively during the seventeenth century , as a process of " selection , " in which " patrons and peers ...
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... England's past success , Bolingbroke maintained , was due to her maintenance of a balance by which " our free constitution of government hath been preserved so long inviolate , or hath been brought back ... to its original prin- ciples ...
... England's past success , Bolingbroke maintained , was due to her maintenance of a balance by which " our free constitution of government hath been preserved so long inviolate , or hath been brought back ... to its original prin- ciples ...
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... England for a century thereafter . Burke thus felt obliged to defend the Revolution and to justify the existing political system which had grown out of it . He was , in the language of the time , an " Old Whig , " and , in his view , an ...
... England for a century thereafter . Burke thus felt obliged to defend the Revolution and to justify the existing political system which had grown out of it . He was , in the language of the time , an " Old Whig , " and , in his view , an ...
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... England and the gov- erning body of the Empire . However , he believed that its imperial powers should be exercised only sparingly and that , for most pur- poses , the more mature branches of the Empire , such as the Amer- ican Colonies ...
... England and the gov- erning body of the Empire . However , he believed that its imperial powers should be exercised only sparingly and that , for most pur- poses , the more mature branches of the Empire , such as the Amer- ican Colonies ...
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... England , where France might serve as an example for the English radicals . Burke's reply , therefore , was equally multi - faceted . First , he believed that the defense of European culture required that the as yet uncontaminated ...
... England , where France might serve as an example for the English radicals . Burke's reply , therefore , was equally multi - faceted . First , he believed that the defense of European culture required that the as yet uncontaminated ...
Contents
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The Whiggism of History and the History of Whiggism | 53 |
Burke on the Foundations and Nature of Government | 85 |
Burke on the Nature and Extent of State Authority | 113 |
The Politics of Trusteeship | 137 |
Political Parties and Their Uses | 161 |
The Decline and Fall of the Theory of Sovereignty | 185 |
The French Revolution and the Crisis of European | 215 |
Ireland India and the Deluge | 251 |
Notes | 275 |
Bibliography | 341 |
Index | 355 |
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