Revolution, Reform, and Liberty in John Wilson Croker, Edmund Burke, and Thomas Babington Macaulay
ABSTRACT
Besides marking an important event in the history of liberty, the French Revolution became a lens through which the British viewed their own politics from the 1790s into the 1830s. Conferees used the writings and speeches of John Wilson Croker, Edmund Burke, and Thomas Babbington Macaulay to explore the connection between revolution and reform in the minds of these three statesmen.
READING LIST
From Liberty Fund
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…
Additional Readings
Croker, John Wilson. Essays on the Early Period of the French Revolution. London: The Quarterly Review, 1857.
Croker, John Wilson. Hansard’s Parliamentary Debates, Volume XI (1832). New York: Kraus Reprint Co., 1971.
Croker, John Wilson. Hansard’s Parliamentary Debates, Volume III (1831). New York: Kraus Reprint Co., 1971.
Croker, John Wilson. Hansard’s Parliamentary Debates, Volume IX (1832). New York: Kraus Reprint Co., 1971.
Macaulay, Thomas Babington. Hansard’s Parliamentary Debates, Volume VII (1832). New York: Kraus Reprint Co., 1971.
Macaulay, Thomas Babington. Hansard’s Parliamentary Debates, Volume XI (1832). New York: Kraus Reprint Co., 1971.
Macaulay, Thomas Babington. Hansard’s Parliamentary Debates, Volume IX (1832). New York: Kraus Reprint Co., 1971.
Macaulay, Thomas Babington. The Miscellaneous Writings of Lord Macaulay, Vol. II. London: Longman, Green, Longman, and Roberts, 1860.
Macaulay, Thomas Babington. Hansard’s Parliamentary Debates, Volume II (1831). London: Kraus Reprint Co., 1971.
Macaulay, Thomas Babington. Hansard’s Parliamentary Debates, Volume VIII (1832). London: Kraus Reprint Co., 1971.