Edmund Burke: The Visionary Who Invented Modern Politics. Jesse Norman

       EDMUND BURKE

      The Visionary Who Invented Modern Politics

      JESSE NORMAN

       Contents

       Cover

       Title Page

       List of Illustrations

       Introduction

       PART ONE: LIFE

       1. An Irishman Abroad, 1730–1759

       2. In and Out of Power, 1759–1774

       3. Ireland, America and King Mob, 1774–1780

       4. India, Economical Reform and the King’s Madness, 1780–1789

       5. Reflecting on Revolution, 1789–1797

       PART TWO: THOUGHT

       6. Reputation, Reason and the Enlightenment Project

       7. The Social Self

       8. Forging Modern Politics

       9. The Rise of Liberal Individualism

       10. The Recovery of Value

       Conclusion: Burke Today

       Notes

       Select Bibliography

       Index

       Acknowledgements

       About the Author

       Copyright

       About the Publisher

       List of Illustrations

1: Gin Lane, by William Hogarth, etching and engraving, published 1 February 1751 © The Trustees of the British Museum

2: Idol-Worship or the way to preferment, anonymous, etching, 1740 © The Trustees of the British Museum

3: A literary party at Sir Joshua Reynolds’s, by D. George Thompson, after James William Edmund Doyle, stipple and line engraving, published by Owen Bailey 1 October 1851 © National Portrait Gallery, London

4: The House of Commons 1793–94, by Karl Anton Hickel, oil on canvas, 1793–1795 © National Portrait Gallery, London

5: Portrait of Charles Watson-Wentworth, 2nd Marquess of Rockingham, after Sir Joshua Reynolds, oil on canvas, feigned oval, circa 1768 © National Portrait Gallery, London

6: Portrait of John Wilkes, by James Watson, after Robert Edge Pine, mezzotint, published 1764 © National Portrait Gallery, London

      7: Portrait of Charles James Fox, by Karl Anton Hickel, oil on canvas, 1794 © National Portrait Gallery, London

      8: Portrait of Edmund Burke, studio of Sir Joshua Reynolds, oil on canvas, circa 1769 or later © National Portrait Gallery, London

      9: Map of India in the time of Clive, in Charles Colbeck (ed.), The Public Schools Historical Atlas, Longmans, Green & Co. (London, 1905)

      10: Concerto coalitionale, by James Sayers, etching, published by Thomas Cornell 7 June 1785 © National Portrait Gallery, London

      11: The political-banditti assailing the saviour of India, by James Gillray, published by William Holland, hand-coloured etching, published by William Holland 11 May 1786 © The Trustees of the British Museum

      12: Portrait of Warren Hastings, by John Henry Robinson, after Lemuel Francis Abbott, engraving, 1832 © Getty Images

      13: A View of the Tryal of Warren Hastings Esqr. before the Court of Peers, in Westminster Hall, by Robert Pollard (etching) and Francis Jukes (aquatint), after Edward Dayes, etching and aquatint, published by Robert Pollard 3 January 1789 © Getty Images

      14: Smelling out a Rat, by James Gillray, hand-coloured etching, published by Hannah Humphrey 3 December 1790 © The Trustees of the British Museum

      15: Portrait of Richard Burke, by James Ward, after Sir Joshua Reynolds, mezzotint, published by James Ward 5 July 1800 © National Portrait Gallery, London

      16: Thoughts on a Regicide Peace, by James Sayers, etching, published by Hannah Humphrey 14 October 1796 © National Portrait Gallery, London

      17: Promis’d Horrors of the French Invasion, by James Gillray, hand-coloured etching and aquatint, published by Hannah Humphrey 20 October 1796 © National Portrait Gallery, London

      18: Portrait of Edmund Burke, by James Barry, oil on canvas, circa 1771, reproduced by kind permission from the Board of Trinity College Dublin, Ireland