He attempts not only to explain the events of the new revolution to his readers but also to persuade them that the revolution menaces the civilization of Europe in general and that of Britain in particular.
In it, he excoriates French revolutionary leaders for recklessly destroying Frances venerable institutions and way of life. Volume 2 consists of Burkes most renowned work, Reflections on the Revolution in France. Francis Canavan, one of the great Burke scholars of the twentieth century, has added forewords. Faithfully reproduced in each volume are E.
Book Synopsis Originally published by Oxford University Press in the 1890s, the famed three-volume Payne edition of Select Works is universally revered by students of English history and political thought.
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