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Edmund Burke : the first conservative / Jesse Norman.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Norman, Jesse.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797.
- Burke, Edmund.
- Statesmen--Great Britain--Biography.
- Statesmen.
- Great Britain.
- Political scientists--Great Britain--Biography.
- Political scientists.
- Orators--Great Britain--Biography.
- Orators.
- Great Britain--Politics and government--1760-1820.
- Politics and government.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- 325 pages : illustrations portraits, maps ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Basic Books, [2013]
- Summary:
- Edmund Burke is the greatest and perhaps also the most underrated political thinker of the past 300 years. A brilliant 18th-century political theorist, philosopher, and statesman, Burke was a fierce champion of human rights, and a lifelong campaigner against arbitrary power.
- Contents:
- Pt. 1. Life. An Irishman abroad, 1730-1759 ; In and out of power, 1759-1774 ; Ireland, America and King Mob, 1774-1780 ; India, economical reform and the King's madness, 1780-1789 ; Reflecting on revolution, 1789-1797
- pt. 2. Thought. Reputation, reason and the enlightenment project ; The social self ; Forging modern politics ; the rise of liberal individualism ; The recovery of value.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [299]-305) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780465058976
- 0465058973
- 9780465044948
- 0465044948
- OCLC:
- 811598750
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