British Liberal Tradition in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries
ABSTRACT
English Liberalism was born out of the seventeenth-century struggle for freedom of conscience and the resistance of Parliament to the arbitrary authority of the king. Yet, from an intellectual perspective, the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries represented an age of continuous transformation for the British liberal tradition. This conference focused on the intellectual and political development of the English liberal tradition during that period.
READING LIST
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Select Works of Edmund Burke: Reflections on the Revolution in France
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By Edmund Burke
Compiled and with a Foreword and Notes by Francis Canavan
Originally published by Oxford University Press in the 1890s, the famed three-volume Payne edition of Select Works is universally revered by students of English history and political thought. Faithfully reproduced in each volume are E. J. Payne’s notes and introductory essays. Francis Canavan, one of the great Burke scholars of…
Further Reflections on the Revolution in France
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By Edmund Burke
Edited by Daniel E. Ritchie
In his famous Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790), Edmund Burke excoriated French revolutionary leaders for recklessly destroying France’s venerable institutions and way of life. But his war against the French intelligentsia did not end there, and Burke continued to take pen in hand against the Jacobins until his…
Additional Readings
Bullock, Allen and Maurice Shock, eds. The Liberal Tradition from Fox to Keynes. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1956.
Bentham, Jeremy. The Works of Jeremy Bentham, Volume 1 [1843]. Edinburgh: published under the Superintendence of his Executor, John Bowring, 1838-1843.
Bentham, Jeremy. The Works of Jeremy Bentham, Volume 2 [1843]. Edinburgh: published under the Superintendence of his Executor, John Bowring, 1838-1843.
Burrow, J. W. Whigs and Liberals: Continuity and Change in English Political Thought. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1988.
Cobden, Richard. Speeches on Questions of Public Policy by Richard Cobden, M.P., Volume I. Edited by John Bright and J. E. Thorold Rogers. New York: Kraus Reprint Co., 1970.
Green, T. H. Lectures on the Principles of Political Obligation and Other Writings. Edited by Paul Harris and John Morrow. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1986.
Hume, David. Essays: Moral, Political, and Literary. Edited by Eugene F. Miller. Indianapolis: Liberty Fund, 1985.
Mackintosh, James. Vindiciae Gallicae and Other Writings on the French Revolution. Indianapolis: Liberty Fund, 2006.
Mill, John Stuart. The Collected Works of John Stuart Mill, Volume XIX - Essays on Politics and Society, Part 2. Edited by John M. Robson. Toronto: Toronto University Press, 1977. http://oll.libertyfund.org (accessed October, 2009).
Smith, Adam. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations. Edited by R. H. Campbell, A. S. Skinner, and W. B. Todd. Indianapolis: Liberty Fund, 1981.