A major new account of one of the leading philosopher-statesmen of the eighteenth century Edmund Burke (1730–97) lived during one of the most extraordinary periods of world history. He grappled with the significance of the British Empire in India, fought for reconciliation with the American colonies, and was a vocal critic of national policy during three European wars. He also advocated reform in Britain and became a central protagonist in the great debate on the French Revolution. Drawing on the complete range of printed and manuscript sources, Empire and Revolution offers a vivid reconstruction of the major concerns of this outstanding statesman, orator, and philosopher. In restoring Burke to his original political and intellectual context, this book overturns the conventional picture of a partisan of tradition against progress and presents a multifaceted portrait of one of the most captivating figures in eighteenth-century life and thought. A boldly ambitious work of scholarship, this book challenges us to rethink the legacy of Burke and the turbulent era in which he played so pivotal a role.
Looking at America through the Irish prism and employing a comparative approach, leading and emerging scholars of early American and Atlantic history interrogate anew the relationship between imperial reform and revolution in Ireland and ...
Oregon's Wayne Morse had set the tone during an executive session of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on 15 July, thundering that he was "not going to support the mixing of American blood with Arabian oil in the Middle East today" ...
Power, People, and Revolution in Early America Patrick Griffin ... including excellent photographic reproductions of the original document, is August Chouteau's Journal: Memory, Mythmaking, and History in the Heritage of New France, ed.
A bold transatlantic history of American independence revealing that 1776 was about far more than taxation without representation Revolution Against Empire sets the story of American independence within a long and fierce clash over the ...
He appointed the very able Nathaniel Greene to command what was left in the South . Here again was an odd twist of circumstance . Gates was a trained and experienced military man who lost ; Greene was a former Quaker from Rhode Island ...
Empire and Independence: The International History of the American Revolution
... Mass., 1998); Sylvia R. Frey, Water from the Rock: Black Resistance in a Revolutionary Era (Princeton, N.J., 1991); Marjoleine Kars, Breaking Loose Together: The Regulator Rebellion in Pre-Revolutionary North Carolina (Chapel Hill, ...
In this lively, concise book, Eliga Gould examines an important yet surprisingly understudied aspect of the conflict: the British public's predominantly loyal response to its government's actions in North America.
History of football in Castlemaine from 1859 to 2009. Includes biographies of leading identities and reviews eras and particular seasons. Illustrated throughout, some colour. Includes honour boards and lists senior...
115 Dutton's story draws considerably upon Russell, Roving Mariners, 111ff. For Dutton as pioneer, see J. G. Wiltshire, Captain William Pelham Dutton: First Settler at Portland Bay, Victoria: A History of the Whaling and Sealing ...