List of Short Titles Introduction Sources Note on Transcription THE TEXTS Appendix A: List of Burke's Speeches in the House of Commons Appendix B: Collation of Texts Index
P. J. Marshall received his first degree and doctorate from Oxford University. His working life between 1959 and 1993 was spent at King's College, London, where he became Rhodes Professor of Imperial History. He is a fellow of the British Academy.
a major transformation in our appreciation of Burke * Colin Kidd,
London Review of Books *
The annotation in this final volume is more thorough and more
helpful ... We are living through a golden age of Burke scholarship
... The completion of the Clarendon edition should encourage yet
further work on this great thinker, whose unflagging efforts to
co-ordinate politics and morality continue to have a relevance to
our present discontents. * David Womersley, Standpoint *
No one has done more than Professor Marshall to lay the foundations
of contemporary scholarship on Burke ... Volume IV at once
concludes the foundational era and takes a deserved place beside
these contemporary achievements. * John Faulkner, Studies in Burke
and His Time *
[A] scholarly triumph ... [Burke's] greatest tribute is the vast
textual expertise of the book itself. It is a meticulous collation
of texts - newspaper accounts, published writings, and Burke's
papers and manuscripts - presented in a readable fashion with
headnotes that inform the reader of the issue at hand and Burke's
prior involvement in it. * First Things *
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