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Edmund Burke on slavery and the slave trade

Slavery and Abolition, 2019
This article reconstructs Edmund Burke’s thoughts on slavery from his Account of the European Settlements in America to his parliamentary speeches in the late 1700s.
Gregory M Collins
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An ancient and modern spectre: Edmund Burke and the return of democracy

History of European Ideas, 2023
In 1790, Edmund Burke was among the first to brand the French representative government as democracy. Revolutionary France was generating the spectre of ancient Greece and that of direct participation in government.
M. Lenci
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The Edmund Burke Society and Right-Wing Extremism in Late Twentieth-Century Canada

Canadian Historical Review, 2021
Emerging in Toronto in the late 1960s, the Edmund Burke Society (ebs) became a leading far-right outlet. From picketing Model United Nations meetings and gatherings of left-wing groups to staging pro-Vietnam War protests and engaging in racially ...
Asa McKercher
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Edmund Burke

A New Modern Philosophy, 2019
Eugene Marshall, Susanne Sreedhar
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Commerce and Manners in Edmund Burke's Political Economy

, 2020
Although many of Edmund Burke's speeches and writings contain prominent economic dimensions, his economic thought seldom receives the attention it warrants.
Gregory M. Collins
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Edmund Burke and the Ambivalence of Protection for Slaves: Between Humanity and Control

Politics and the Histories of International Law, 2020
This article focuses on the period between 1812 and 1834, when the British Empire introduced protection measures to mitigate the suffering of slaves from planter brutality, but also to protect planters from slave rebellion.
P. Menon
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The Metaphysics of Edmund Burke

, 2020
The most recent commentators on Edmund Burke have renewed the charge that his political thought lacks the consistency and coherency necessary to even claim the status of a political philosophy and that he is indeed a utilitarian.They mark him off as an ...
Joseph Pappin
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Edmund Burke on slavery and the slave trade: a response to Gregory M. Collins

, 2020
In Edmund Burke and the British Empire in the West Indies (2019), P.J. Marshall notes that the belief that Burke was an avowed opponent of slavery and the slave trade has persisted until very recen...
Daniel I. O’neill
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EDMUND BURKE, POLAND, AND THE COMMONWEALTH OF EUROPE

Historical-Philological Journal, 2020
This article re-examines Burke's doctrine of intervention by analysing his decades-long interest in the ‘Polish question’. Contrary to the main thrust of existing scholarship, it argues that the French Revolution did not fundamentally transform Burke's ...
Anna Plassart
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Edmund Burke, Strauss, and the Straussians

Perspectives on Political Science, 2019
In Natural Right and History, Leo Strauss accused Edmund Burke of being ignorant of the nobility of last-ditch resistance; defending a conception of history that set the path for historicism; and discarding a vision of politics as it ought to be.
Gregory M. Collins
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