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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... Rockingham Whigs . However , John MacCunn , though agreeing with O'Gorman's emphasis on Burke as a practical politi- cian , sees considerable merit in Burke's political philosophy.9 In- deed , MacCunn identifies Burke as one of the ...
... Rockingham Whigs . However , John MacCunn , though agreeing with O'Gorman's emphasis on Burke as a practical politi- cian , sees considerable merit in Burke's political philosophy.9 In- deed , MacCunn identifies Burke as one of the ...
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... Whig . That meant , among other things , that when he turned to history , he ... Whigs were , and had to be , a party , some- thing more highly organized and ... Rockingham party , I do think that concerns The Significance of Edmund Burke 11.
... Whig . That meant , among other things , that when he turned to history , he ... Whigs were , and had to be , a party , some- thing more highly organized and ... Rockingham party , I do think that concerns The Significance of Edmund Burke 11.
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... Rockingham Whigs ' loss of power in terms of an attempt by George III and his supporters to subvert parliamentary ... Whigs , and Burke , learned to work in league with other parties , and also learned something of the limits of such ...
... Rockingham Whigs ' loss of power in terms of an attempt by George III and his supporters to subvert parliamentary ... Whigs , and Burke , learned to work in league with other parties , and also learned something of the limits of such ...
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... Rockingham Whigs . Burke claimed that the Whigs were the descendants and representatives of a tra- ditional governing aristocratic class in English society , and , in his more directly political writings of the time , sought to show ...
... Rockingham Whigs . Burke claimed that the Whigs were the descendants and representatives of a tra- ditional governing aristocratic class in English society , and , in his more directly political writings of the time , sought to show ...
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... Rockingham Whigs and various other reform groups in the period near the end of the American Revolution and just after . I will argue that those efforts failed because the Whigs were willing to act for the people but not with them or ...
... Rockingham Whigs and various other reform groups in the period near the end of the American Revolution and just after . I will argue that those efforts failed because the Whigs were willing to act for the people but not with them or ...
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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