Reflections on the Revolution in France / Edmund Burke ; edited with an introduction and notes by L.G. Mitchell.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797.

Contributor:

Mitchell, L. G. (Leslie George)

Series:

Oxford world's classics (Oxford University Press)

Oxford world's classics

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

France--History--Revolution, 1789-1799--Causes.

France.

History.

France--Politics and government--1789-1799.

Politics and government.

Physical Description:

xxiv, 326 pages ; 19 cm.

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1999.

Summary:

This new and up-to-date edition of a book that has been central to political philosophy, history, and revolutionary thought for two hundred years offers readers a dire warning of the consequences that follow the mismanagement of change. Written for a generation presented with challenges of terrible proportions--the Industrial, American, and French Revolutions, to name the most obvious--Burke's Reflections of the Revolution in France displays an acute awareness of how high political stakes can be, as well as a keen ability to set contemporary problems within a wider context of political theory.

ISBN:

0192839780

OCLC:

42947262