Revolutionary Writings Burke Hampsher-Monk Hardback Cambridge University Press

Revolutionary WritingsReflections on the Revolution in France and the First Letter on a Regicide Peace\nAuthor(s): Edmund Burke, Iain Hampsher-Monk\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Cambridge University Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Cambridge University Press\nISBN-13: 9780521843935, 978-0521843935\nSynopsis\nBurke's Reflections on the Revolution in France was the first sustained theoretical critique of the French Revolution; and is now recognised as the classic statement of modern conservatism. Reflections surveys the British political culture of traditionalism, gradualism and deference, and contrasts it with the French Revolutionaries' programme of appeal to abstract right, transformational change and popular agency. Ultimately Burke advocated a counterrevolutionary war and the restoration of the French monarchy. This accessible new edition brings together for the first time Burke's first and last published thoughts on the revolution including as it does the first Letter on a Regicid.