A Magazine of Wisdom
Linda Colley, 4 September 1997
Edmund Burke: A Life in Caricature
by Nicholas Robinson.
Yale, 214 pp., £30, October 1996,0 300 06801 8 Show More
by Nicholas Robinson.
Yale, 214 pp., £30, October 1996,
The Writings and Speeches of Edmund Burke. Vol. III: Party, Parliament and the American War 1774-80
edited by Warren Elofson and John Woods.
Oxford, 713 pp., £75, September 1996,0 19 822414 1 Show More
edited by Warren Elofson and John Woods.
Oxford, 713 pp., £75, September 1996,
Edmund Burke and India: Political Morality and Empire
by Frederick Whelan.
Pittsburgh, 384 pp., £39.95, December 1996,0 8229 3927 4 Show More
by Frederick Whelan.
Pittsburgh, 384 pp., £39.95, December 1996,
“... British imperium absolutely for granted: ‘there we are placed by the Sovereign Disposer.’ As Frederick Whelan remarks, what concerned him in both territories was not the legitimacy of British rule, but its quality. Whelan’s book is valuable both for its intelligent and unillusioned treatment of Burke’s take on ... ”
