Select Works of Edmund Burke A New Imprint of the Payne Edition Thoughts on the Present Discontents ; The Two Speeches on America

Originally published by Oxford University Press in the 1890s, the famed Payne edition of Select Works of Burke is universally revered by students of English history and political thought. Volume 2 consists of Burke's renowned Reflections on the Revolution in France. Faithfully reproduced in each volume are E. J. Payne's notes and introductory essays. Francis Canavan, one of the great Burke scholars of the twentieth century, has added forewords and a biographical note on Payne. In the companion volume, Miscellaneous Writings, Canavan has collected seven of Burke's major contributions to English political thinking on representation in Parliament, on economics, on the political oppression of the peoples of India and Ireland, and on the enslavement of African blacks. The volume concludes with a select bibliography on Edmund Burke. The volumes complement the Liberty Fund editions of Burke's A Vindication of Natural Society, edited by Frank N. Pagano, and Further Reflections on the Revolution in France, edited by Daniel E. Ritchie.Payne, E. J. is the author of 'Select Works of Edmund Burke A New Imprint of the Payne Edition Thoughts on the Present Discontents ; The Two Speeches on America', published 2010 under ISBN 9780865971653 and ISBN 086597165X.