Select Works of Edmund Burke: Thoughts on the Cause of the Present Discontents and the Two Speeches on America

by Edmund Burke

Book Overview

This famed Payne edition of Select Works of Edmund Burke is universally revered by students of English history and political thought.

Volume 1, Thoughts on the Cause of the Present Discontents and The Two Speeches on America, contains Burke's brilliant defense of the American colonists' complaints of British policy, including "Thoughts on the Cause of the Present Discontents" (1770), "Speech on American Taxation" (1774),...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0865971633
• ISBN13: 9780865971639
• Release Date: March 1999
• Publisher: Liberty Fund
• Length: 427 Pages
• Weight: 1.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.8" x 8.8"
• Age Range: 18 to 10 years
• Grade Range: Postsecondary to Grade 5