The Revolution in France was a dire warning of the consequences that would follow the mismanagement of change.ĪBOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Burke was acutely aware of how high the stakes were. They could promise paradise or threaten anarchy. The Industrial Revolution, the American Revolution, and catastrophically, the French Revolution presented challenges of terrible proportions.
He tried to teach lessons about how change should be managed, what limits should not be transgressed, and what should be reverently preserved. His reputation depends less on his role as a practising politician than on his ability to set contemporary problems within a wider context of political theory. Edmund Burke was the dominant political thinker of the last quarter of the eighteenth century in England.
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