Select Works of Edmund Burke, Volume 3

Edmund Burke

ISBN 10: 0865971676 / ISBN 13: 9780865971677

Published by Liberty Fund Inc, US, 1999

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Part of a three-volume set, this text presents selected work of Edmund Burke on English history and political thought. This third volume presents his "Letters on a Regicide Peace"(1795-1796). The first volume contains Burke's defence of the American colonists' complaints of British policy and includes "Thoughts on the Cause of the Present Discontents"(1770), "Speech on American Taxation"(1774), and "Speech on Conciliation"(1775). Volume Two in the set consists of Burke's "Reflections on the Revolution in France". The text includes notes and introductory essays by E. J. Payne.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Select Works of Edmund Burke, Volume 3
• Publisher: Liberty Fund Inc, US
• Publication Date: 1999
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0865971676
• ISBN 13: 9780865971677
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: New
• Weight: 754 grams

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Synopsis

This famed Payne edition of Select Works of Edmund Burke is universally revered by students of English history and political thought.

Volume 3 presents Burke’s Four Letters on the Proposals for Peace with the Regicide Directory of France―generally styled Letters on a Regicide Peace (1795–1796). The Letters, Payne believed, deserve to “rank even before [Burke’s] Reflections, and to be called the writer’s masterpiece.” Faithfully reproduced in each volume are E. J. Payne’s notes and introductory essays. Francis Canavan, one of the great Burke scholars of the twentieth century, has added forewords and a biographical note on Payne.

Francis Canavan (1917–2009) was Professor of Political Science at Fordham University from 1966 until his retirement in 1988.

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Edmund Burke