Edmund Burke, Volume II
Edmund Burke, Volume II

Author: F. P. Lock

Publisher: Writings & Speeches of Edmund

Published: 1998

Total Pages: 645

ISBN-13: 0198206798

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This volume explores the years from 1784 to 1797, and covers the most interesting years of Burke's life; the leading themes being India and the French Revolution. Burke was a key figure in shaping long-term British attitudes to both.

Agents of the People
Agents of the People

Author: Pasi Ihalainen

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2010-03-22

Total Pages: 546

ISBN-13: 9004183949

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This book on the pre-history of democratization shows how and why more modern attitudes to democracy started to emerge in the late eighteenth century. Focusing on the language of parliamentarians, the author reconstructs and compares debates on the political role and representation of the people in Britain and Sweden. His analysis demonstrates not only the persistence of the classical, pejorative, conception of democracy but also the gradual re-evaluation of the notion prior to the French Revolution. The author analyses the clash between British and French conceptions of democracy as well as the first definitions of the sovereignty of Parliament as the sovereignty of the people. Furthermore, by placing parliamentary discourse in the context of public debates, he reveals the previously ignored role that parliaments played in redefining the most crucial concepts in Western political theory.

Gentleman's Magazine and Historical Review
Gentleman's Magazine and Historical Review

Author:

Publisher:

Published: 1814

Total Pages: 780

ISBN-13:

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The "Gentleman's magazine" section is a digest of selections from the weekly press; the "(Trader's) monthly intelligencer" section consists of news (foreign and domestic), vital statistics, a register of the month's new publications, and a calendar of forthcoming trade fairs.