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Edmund Burke Vol. 1 1730 - 1784
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Edmund Burke Vol. 1 1730 - 1784

Author: Frederick P Lock
Publisher: Oxford [u.a.] Clarendon Press 1998
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Volume one of a two-volume biography of 18th-century politician and thinker, Edmund Burke. It explores the years from 1730 to 1784, and describes his Irish upbringing and education, early writing,  Read more...

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Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Frederick P Lock
ISBN: 0198206763 9780198206767
OCLC Number: 245695173
Description: XV, 564 S Ill., Kt
Contents: 1. Growing Up Irish, 1730-1744; 2. From a Boy to a Man, 1744-1750; 3. Getting Started, 1750-1757; 4. A Philosophical Enquiry, 1757; 5. Maps of Mankind, 1756-1758; 6. Journalist and Jackal, 1759-1765; 7. Gleams of Prosperity, 1765-1768; 8. Present Discontents, 1768-1770; 9. Squalls and Stagnation, 1770-1773; 10. America and Bristol, 1774-1776; 11. Waiting on Events, 1776-1779; 12. Shears or Hatchets, 1779-1781; 13. Paradise Lost, 1781-1784; Index
Responsibility: F. P. Lock
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Professor Lock gives us the first volume of what promises to be an important biography. Derek Jarrett, LRB 17/2/00 meticulous and massive biography ... Helped by the bedrock of collected scholarly Read more...

 
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