The Writings and Speeches of Edmund Burke
Volume IV: Party, Parliament, and the Dividing of the Whigs, 1780-1794
P J Marshall editor Paul Langford editor Donald Bryant editor
Format:Hardback
Publisher:Oxford University Press
Published:8th Oct '15
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This fourth volume in the Writings and Speeches of Edmund Burke series is also the last of the three Party and Parliament volumes, which follow Edmund Burke through from the opening of a newly elected Parliament which assembled on 31 October 1780 to his retirement from the Commons in 1794. This volume addresses Burke's views on the authority of Parliament over the British provinces in India, and his concerns about the implications of the French Revolution for British politics. He also expresses his views on issues that had always greatly interested him, such as the reform of criminal law, the confinement of debtors, and the abolition of what he regarded as outmoded economic regulations. The texts for the items, which have appeared in previous editions of Burke's Works, have been reconstructed, largely by the use of manuscripts, and many of the shorter speeches appear here in print for the first time.
a major transformation in our appreciation of Burke * Colin Kidd, London Review of Books *
The annotation in this final volume is more thorough and more helpful ... We are living through a golden age of Burke scholarship ... The completion of the Clarendon edition should encourage yet further work on this great thinker, whose unflagging efforts to co-ordinate politics and morality continue to have a relevance to our present discontents. * David Womersley, Standpoint *
No one has done more than Professor Marshall to lay the foundations of contemporary scholarship on Burke ... Volume IV at once concludes the foundational era and takes a deserved place beside these contemporary achievements. * John Faulkner, Studies in Burke and His Time *
[A] scholarly triumph ... [Burke's] greatest tribute is the vast textual expertise of the book itself. It is a meticulous collation of texts -- newspaper accounts, published writings, and Burke's papers and manuscripts -- presented in a readable fashion with headnotes that inform the reader of the issue at hand and Burke's prior involvement in it. * First Things *
ISBN: 9780199665198
Dimensions: 239mm x 164mm x 44mm
Weight: 1200g
694 pages