{"product_id":"the-portable-edmund-burke-isbn-9780140267600","title":"The Portable Edmund Burke","description":"The intellectual wellspring of modern political conservatism, \u003cb\u003eEdmund Burke\u003c\/b\u003e is also considered a significant figure in aesthetic theory and cultural studies. As a member of the House of Commons during the late eighteenth century, Burke shook Parliament with his powerful defense of the American Revolution and the rights of persecuted Catholics in England and Ireland; his indictment of the English rape of the Indian subcontinent; and, most famously, his denouncement of English Jacobin sympathizers during the French Revolution. \u003cb\u003eThe Portable Edmund Burke\u003c\/b\u003e is the fullest one- volume survey of Burke's thought, with sections devoted to his writings on history and culture, politics and society, the American Revolution, Ireland, colonialism and India, and the French Revolution. This volume also includes excerpts from his letters and an informative Introduction surveying Burke's life, ideas, and his reception and influence in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.\u003ci\u003eIntroduction\u003cbr\u003eSuggestions for Further Reading\u003cbr\u003eA Note on the Selections\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eI. CULTURE AND HISTORY\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Reformer\u003cbr\u003eA Notebook of Edmund Burke\u003cbr\u003eA Vindication of Natural Society\u003cbr\u003eA Philosophical Inquiry into the Origins of Our Ideas of the Sublime and the Beautiful\u003cbr\u003eFragment—An Essay Towards an History of the Laws of England\u003cbr\u003eBook Reviews in the \u003ci\u003eAnnual Register\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSpeech on the Repeal of the Marriage Act\u003cbr\u003eSpeeches on Religious Establishment and Toleration\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eII. POLITICS AND SOCIETY\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThoughts on the Present Discontents\u003cbr\u003eSpeech on the Middlesex Elections\u003cbr\u003eSpeech at Mr. Burke's Arrival in Bristol\u003cbr\u003eSpeech on Economical Reform\u003cbr\u003eSpeech on a Bill for Shortening the Duration of Parliaments\u003cbr\u003eSpeech on a Committee to Inquire into the State of the Representation of the Commons in Parliament\u003cbr\u003eSketch of a Negro Code\u003cbr\u003eThoughts and Details on Scarcity\u003cbr\u003eA Letter to a Noble Lord\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eIII. AMERICA AND REVOLUTION\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAn Account of the European Settlements in America\u003cbr\u003eObservations on a Late Publication Entitled \"The Present State of the Nation\"\u003cbr\u003eSpeech on American Taxation\u003cbr\u003eSpeech on Conciliation with the Colonies\u003cbr\u003eAddress to the British Colonists in North America\u003cbr\u003eA Letter to the Sheriffs of Bristol on the Affairs of America\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eIV. IRELAND AND CATHOLICISM\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTract on the Popery Laws\u003cbr\u003eAddress at Bristol on the Gordon Riots and the Catholic Question\u003cbr\u003eA Letter to a Peer of Ireland on the Penal Laws Against Irish Catholics\u003cbr\u003eLetter to Sir Hercules Langrishe\u003cbr\u003eA Letter to Richard Burke, Esq., on Protestant Ascendancy in Ireland\u003cbr\u003eA Letter to William Smith, Esq., on the Subject of Catholic Emancipation\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eV. INDIA AND COLONIALISM\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSpeech on Mr. Fox's East India Bill\u003cbr\u003eSpeech on the Nabob of Arcot's Debt\u003cbr\u003eSpeeches on the Impeachment of Warren Hastings\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eVI. THE FRENCH REVOLUTION\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSpeech on the Army Estimates\u003cbr\u003eReflections on the Revolution in France\u003cbr\u003eAn Appeal from the New to the Old Whigs\u003cbr\u003eThoughts on French Affairs\u003cbr\u003eLetter to a Member of the National Assembly\u003cbr\u003eLetters on a Regicide Peace\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eVII. SELECTED LETTERS\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTo the Duke of Richmond\u003cbr\u003eTo William Burgh, Esq.\u003cbr\u003eTo the Marquis of Rockingham\u003cbr\u003eTo Mons. Dupont\u003cbr\u003eTo Philip Francis, Esq.\u003cbr\u003eTo Captain Mercer\u003cbr\u003eTo Chevalier de la Bintinnaye\u003cbr\u003eTo William Weddell, Esq.,\u003cbr\u003eTo William Elliot\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eEdmund Burke\u003c\/b\u003e (1729-1797) was born in Dublin and educated at Trinity College. A lifelong member of Parliament, Burke was the author of \u003cb\u003eA Philosophical Enquiry into the Sublime and Beautiful\u003c\/b\u003e, \u003cb\u003eA Vindication of Natural Society\u003c\/b\u003e, and \u003cb\u003eReflections on the Revolution in France\u003c\/b\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eIsaac Kramnick\u003c\/b\u003e was born in 1938 and educated at Harvard University, where he received a B.A. degree in 1959 and a Ph.D. in 1965, and at Peterhouse, Cambridge. He has taught at Harvard, Brandeis, Yale and Cornell, where he is now Professor of Government. He is married to Miriam Brody Kramnick and lives in Ithaca, New York. Among his publications are \u003cb\u003eBolingbroke and His Circle\u003c\/b\u003e, \u003cb\u003eThe Rage of Edmund Burke\u003c\/b\u003e and numerous articles on eighteenth century topics. He has edited William Godwin’s \u003cb\u003eEnquiry Concerning Political Justice\u003c\/b\u003e, \u003cb\u003eThe Federalist Papers\u003c\/b\u003e by James Madison, Alexander Hamilton and John Jay and, with Michael Foot, \u003cb\u003eThe Thomas Paine Reader\u003c\/b\u003e for the Penguin Classics. Most recently he is the author, with Barry Sheerman, MP, of \u003cb\u003eLaski: A Lift on the Left\u003c\/b\u003e.","brand":"Penguin Classics","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46303805898981,"sku":"NP9780140267600","price":25.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780140267600.jpg?v=1767741006","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/the-portable-edmund-burke-isbn-9780140267600","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}