Edmund Burke and the Conservative Logic of Empire
Edmund Burke, long considered modern conservatism's founding father, is also widely believed to be an opponent of empire. However, Daniel O'Neill turns that latter belief on its head. This fresh and innovative book shows that Burke was a passionate supporter and staunch defender of the British Empire in the eighteenth century, whether in the New World, India, or Ireland. Moreover--and against a growing body of contemporary scholarship that rejects the very notion that Burke was an exemplar of conservatism--O'Neill demonstrates that Burke's defense of empire was in fact ideologically consistent with his conservative opposition to the French R…
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- ISBN: 978-0-520-28783-9
- EAN: 9780520287839
- Produktnummer: 19149478
- Verlag: University of California Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2016
- Seitenangabe: 272 S.
- Masse: H15.3 cm x B22.9 cm x D1.8 cm 376 g
- Gewicht: 376
- Sonstiges: General (US: Trade)
Über den Autor
Daniel I. O'Neill is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Florida. He is the author of The Burke-Wollstonecraft Debate: Savagery, Civilization, and Democracy.
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