Description
| Product ID: | 9780140432046 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | Reflections on the Revolution in France |
| Authors: | Author: Edmund Burke, Conor O'Brien |
| Page Count: | 416 |
| Subjects: | Literary essays, Literary essays, European history, History, Revolutions, uprisings, rebellions, Revolutionary groups and movements, European history, Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900, Revolutions, uprisings, rebellions, Revolutionary groups & movements, c 1700 to c 1800 |
| Description: | Presenting a scathing attack on the French revolution's attitudes to existing institutions, property and religion, this work makes a cogent case for upholding inherited rights and established customs. It argues for piecemeal reform rather than revolutionary change, and deplores the influence the revolution might have in Britain. 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. |
| Imprint Name: | Penguin Classics |
| Publisher Name: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 1982-09-30 |
