Select Works of Edmund Burke -- 3-Volume Set : Thoughts on the Cause of the Present Discontents -- The Two Speeches on America

Originally published by Oxford University Press in the 1890s, the famed Payne edition of SELECT WORKS OF BURKE is universally revered by students of English history and political thought. Volume 1 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); and 'Speech on Conciliation' (1775). Volume 2 consists of Burke's renowned 'Reflections on the Revolution in France'. Volume 3 presents Burke's Four Letters on the Proposals for Peace with the Regicide Directory of France -- generally styled 'Letters on a Regicide Peace' (1795-1796). The 'Letters', Payne believed, deserve to "rank even before (Burke's) 'Reflections', and to be called the writer's masterpiece." Faithfully reproduced in each volume are E J Payne's notes and introductory essays. Francis Canavan, one of the great Burke scholars of the twentieth century, has added forewords and a biographical note on Payne. In the companion volume, 'Miscellaneous Writings', Canavan has collected seven of Burke's major contributions to English political thinking on representation in Parliament, on economics, on the political oppression of the peoples of India and Ireland, and on the enslavement of African blacks. The volume concludes with a select bibliography on Edmund Burke. The volumes complement the Liberty Fund editions of Burke's 'A Vindication of Natural Society', edited by Frank N Pagano, and 'Further Reflections on the Revolution in France', edited by Daniel E Ritchie.