Price: Political Writings
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Part of Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought
- Real Author: Richard Price
- Editor: D. O. Thomas, University College of Wales, Aberystwyth
- Date Published: May 1992
- availability: Available
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521409698
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Richard Price (1723-1791) was an eminent Welsh philosopher and Dissenting Minister. His political pamphlets won him considerable fame in the eighteenth century as a supporter of the American rebels in their struggle for independence, and for the enthusiasm with which he greeted the opening events of the French Revolution. It was this enthusiasm which provoked Edmund Burke into writing Reflections on the Revolution in France. Price is noteworthy as a defender of freedom of thought (especially on religious matters), as a proponent of parliamentary reform, and as an advocate of a minimalist conception of government. He espoused the doctrine of natural rights and the principle of self-government. This 1992 book is a collection of Price's most important pamphlets of the period 1759–89, and is accompanied by a comprehensive introduction putting Price's work in context, complete bibliographical material, a chronology, and biographical notes on persons mentioned in the texts.
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- Date Published: May 1992
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521409698
- length: 236 pages
- dimensions: 216 x 140 x 14 mm
- weight: 0.3kg
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
Introduction
Chronology
Bibliography
Biographical notes
A note on the texts and acknowledgements
Britain's happiness
Two tracts
General introduction
Observations on the nature of civil liberty
Additional observations
Fast Sermon
Observations on the importance of the American Revolution
The evidence for a future period of improvement in the state of mankind
A discourse on the love of our country
Index.
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