Reflections on the Revolution in France and Other Writings

Reflections on the Revolution in France and Other Writings
Author: Edmund Burke
Publisher: Everyman's Library
Total Pages: 1162
Release: 2015-11-03
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 0375712534

The most important works of Edmund Burke, the greatest political thinker of the past three centuries, are gathered here in one comprehensive volume. Accompanying his influential masterpiece, Reflections on the Revolution in France, is a selection of pamphlets, speeches, public letters, private correspondence and, for the first time, two important and previously uncollected early essays. Philosopher, statesman, and founder of conservatism, Burke was a dazzling orator and a visionary theorist who spent his long political career fighting abuses of power. He wrote at a time of great change, against the backdrop of the revolt of the American colonies, the expansion of the British Empire, the collapse of Ireland, and the French Revolution. Burke argued passionately in support of the American revolutionaries and in equally impassioned opposition to the horrors of the unfolding French Revolution. Making a case for upholding established rights and customs, and advocating incremental reform rather than radical revolutionary change, Burke’s writings have profoundly influenced modern democracies up to the present day. Edited and Introduced by Jesse Norman.

The Impact of the French Revolution

The Impact of the French Revolution
Author: Iain Hampsher-Monk
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 376
Release: 2005-08-11
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780521570053

The French Revolution embodied, in the eyes of subsequent generations, the emergence of the modern political world. It offered a new understanding of class politics, secular ideology and revolutionary transformation which inspired, argues Iain Hampsher-Monk, the whole world-wide communist experiment of the twentieth Century. In this authoritative anthology of key political texts exploring the impact of this period on (primarily) the British experience, Hampsher-Monk examines the variety, influence and profundity of major thinkers such as Burke, Wollstonecraft, Paine and Godwin, along with the impact of other less celebrated writers.

England and the French Revolution, 1789-1797

England and the French Revolution, 1789-1797
Author: William Thomas Laprade
Publisher: Baltimore, Md. : Johns Hopkins Press
Total Pages: 242
Release: 1910
Genre: Conspiracy
ISBN:

Originally presented as the author's thesis, John Hopkins University, 1909.

Works

Works
Author: Edmund Burke
Publisher:
Total Pages: 560
Release: 1872
Genre: Great Britain
ISBN:

Critically Examining the Case Against the 1998 Human Rights Act

Critically Examining the Case Against the 1998 Human Rights Act
Author: Frederick Cowell
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 259
Release: 2017-09-13
Genre: Law
ISBN: 1315310031

Since its inception in 1998 the Human Rights Act (HRA) has come in for a wide variety of criticism on legal, constitutional, political and cultural grounds. More recently, this criticism escalated significantly as politicians have seriously considered proposals for its abolition. This book examines the main arguments against the HRA and the issues which have led to public hostility against the protection of human rights. The first part of the book looks at the legal structures and constitutional aspects of the case against the HRA, including the criticism that the HRA is undemocratic and is used by judges to subvert the will of parliament. The second part of the book looks at specific issues, such as immigration and terrorism, where cases involving the HRA have triggered broader public concerns about the protection of human rights. The final section of this book looks at some of the structural issues that have generated hostility to the HRA, such as media coverage and the perception of the legal profession. This book aims to unpick the complex climate of hostility that the HRA has faced and examine the social, political and legal forces that continue to inform the case against the HRA.