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Reflections on the Revolution in France

Reflections on the Revolution in France

Burke, Edmund
O'Brien, Conor Cruise

Paperback

Series: English Library

French HistoryGeneral Political ScienceGeneral World History

Publisher Price: $14.00

ISBN10: 0140432043
ISBN13: 9780140432046
Publisher: Penguin Classics
Published: Dec 16 1982
Pages: 400
Weight: 0.69
Height: 0.97 Width: 5.06 Depth: 7.90
Language: English
'To make a revolution is to subvert the ancient state of our country; and no common reasons are called for to justify so violent a proceeding'

Burke's seminal work was written during the early months of the French Revolution, and it predicted with uncanny accuracy many of its worst excesses, including the Reign of Terror. A scathing attack on the revolution's attitudes to existing institutions, property and religion, it makes a cogent case for upholding inherited rights and established customs, argues for piecemeal reform rather than revolutionary change - and deplores the influence Burke feared the revolution might have in Britain. Reflections on the Revolution in France is now widely regarded as a classic statement of conservative political thought, and is one of the eighteenth century's great works of political rhetoric.

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