Ebook: Empire and revolution: the political life of Edmund Burke

Introduction -- Part I. Reason and prejudice: early formation, 1730-1750 -- The Blackwater, Ballitore, Trinity, and the reformer -- Part II. Antinomianism and enlightenment: intellectual formation, 1750-1765 -- Natural society and natural religion, 1750-1756 -- The philosophical enquiry: science of the passions, 1757 -- Conquest and assimilation, 1757-1765 -- Part III. Party, sovereignty and empire, 1765-1774 -- Party, popularity and dissent: Britain and Ireland, 1765-1774 -- Collision with the colonies, 1765-1774 -- A revolution in ideas: the Indian empire, 1766-1774 -- Part IV. Conquest, conciliation and representation, 1774-1785 -- Representation and reform: Britain and Ireland, 1774-1784 -- Consent and conciliation: America, 1774-1783 -- A dreadful state of things: Madras and Bengal, 1777-1785 -- Part V. Whiggism, Jacobinism, Indianism and ascendancy, 1785-1797 -- The advent of crisis: Britain, India and France, 1785-1790 -- The opening of the Hastings Impeachment, 1786-1788 -- The great primaeval contract: reflections on the revolution in France, 1790 -- Whig principles and Jacobin dogma, 1791-1793 -- The pursuit of Hastings, 1788-1796 -- Revolutionary crescendo: Britain, Ireland and France, 1793-1797 -- Conclusion