Select Bibliography

This Bibliography lists both works cited and those of general interest relating to Burke’s life, times and thought, and their influence and interpretation.

Works by Burke

Correspondence, ed. Thomas Copeland et al., 10 vols, Cambridge University Press 1958–78

Works, 8 vols, Bohn’s British Classics, London 1854–89

Writings and Speeches, ed. Paul Langford et al., 8 vols to date, Oxford University Press 1981–

Biographies of Burke

Stanley Ayling, Edmund Burke: His Life and Opinions, John Murray 1988

Robert Bisset, The Life of Edmund Burke, 2 vols, London 1800

Carl Cone, Burke and the Nature of Politics, University of Kentucky Press 1957 and 1964

Russell Kirk, Edmund Burke: A Genius Reconsidered, Arlington House 1967

Paul Langford, ‘Edmund Burke’, Dictionary of National Biography

F. P. Lock, Edmund Burke, 2 vols, Oxford University Press 1998 and 2006

C. B. Macpherson, Burke, Oxford University Press 1980

Philip Magnus, Edmund Burke, John Murray 1939

John Morley, Burke, Macmillan 1888

Robert Murray, Edmund Burke: A Biography, Oxford University Press 1931

Conor Cruise O’Brien, The Great Melody, University of Chicago Press 1992

James Prior, Memoir of the Life and Character of the Right Hon. Edmund Burke, Philadelphia 1825

Nicholas K. Robinson, Edmund Burke: A Life in Caricature, Yale University Press 1996

Other works

Jeremy Bernstein, Dawning of the Raj, Aurum Press 2000

Paul Bew, Ireland: The Politics of Enmity 17892006, Oxford University Press 2007

Harry Bingham, This Little Britain, Fourth Estate 2007

Tom Bingham, Dr Johnson and the Law and Other Essays on Johnson, Inner Temple and Dr Johnson’s House Trust 2010

Tom Bingham, The Rule of Law, Penguin 2010

Robert Blake, A History of the Conservative Party from Peel to Major, Heinemann 1997

Steven Blakemore, Intertextual War, Associated University Presses 1997

David Bromwich, Hazlitt: The Mind of a Critic, Oxford University Press 1983

David Bromwich, On Empire, Liberty and Reform: Speeches and Letters of Edmund Burke, Yale University Press 2000

David Brooks, The Social Animal, Random House 2011

Paddy Bullard, Edmund Burke and the Art of Rhetoric, Cambridge University Press 2011

Ian Buruma, Anglomania: A European Love Affair, Vintage Books 2000

Geoffrey Butler, The Tory Tradition, Conservative Political Centre 1957

Marilyn Butler (ed.), Burke. Paine, Godwin, and the Revolution Controversy, Cambridge University Press 1984

Herbert Butterfield, George III and the Historians, Collins 1957

Arthur Cash, John Wilkes: The Scandalous Father of Civil Liberty, Yale University Press 2006

Ian Christie, Myth and Reality in Late Eighteenth Century British Politics, Macmillan 1970

Alfred Cobban, Edmund Burke and the Revolt against the Eighteenth Century, Allen and Unwin 1929

Linda Colley, In Defiance of Oligarchy: The Tory Party 171460, Cambridge University Press 1982

Thomas Copeland, Edmund Burke: Six Essays, Jonathan Cape 1950

J. C. Curwen, Observations on the State of Ireland, 1818

Faramerz Dabhoiwala, The Origins of Sex, Allen Lane 2012

Richard Dawkins, The God Delusion, Bantam 2006

Daniel Dennett, Breaking the Spell: Religion as a Natural Phenomenon, Allen Lane 2006

Patrick Dillon, The Last Revolution: 1688 and the Creation of the Modern World, Jonathan Cape 2006

Patrick Dillon, The Much-Lamented Death of Madam Geneva: The Eighteenth-Century Gin Craze, Headline Books 2002

Sean Patrick Donlan, Edmund Burke’s Irish Identities, Irish Academic Press 2007

William Doyle, The Oxford History of the French Revolution, Oxford University Press 2002

Emile Durkheim, On Suicide, Penguin 2006

David Dwan and Christopher Insole (eds), The Cambridge Companion to Burke, Cambridge University Press 2012

Gilbert Elliot, Letters to a Prince, from a Man of Kent, 1789

Amanda Foreman, Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire, Random House 1998

Robert T. Gannett Jr, Tocqueville Unveiled, University of Chicago Press 2003

Luke Gibbons, Edmund Burke and Ireland, Cambridge University Press 2003

J. A. W. Gunn, Factions No More: Attitudes to Party in Government and Opposition in Eighteenth-Century England, Frank Cass 1972

William Hague, William Pitt the Younger, HarperCollins 2004

William Hague, William Wilberforce, HarperCollins 2007

Jonathan Haidt, The Righteous Mind, Allen Lane 2012

Tim Harford, The Logic of Life, Little, Brown 2008

Ian Harris, ‘Edmund Burke’, entry in Stanford Encyclopaedia of Philosophy

Robin Harris, The Conservatives: A History, Transworld 2011

Betty Hart and Todd Risley, Meaningful Differences in the Everyday Experience of Young American Children, Brookes Publishing 1995

Christopher Hibbert, King Mob, Longman 1958

Christopher Hitchens, God is Not Great: How Religions Poisons Everything, Atlantic 2007

Thomas Hobbes, De Cive (‘On the Citizen’), ed. R. Tuck and M. Silverthorne, Cambridge University Press 1998

Joanna Innes, Inferior Politics, Oxford University Press 2009

Daniel Kahneman, Thinking, Fast and Slow, Farrar, Straus & Giroux 2011

Daniel Kahneman, Paul Slovic and Amos Tversky, Judgement under Uncertainty, Cambridge University Press 1982

Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky, Choices, Values and Frames, Cambridge University Press 2000

Elizabeth R. Lambert, Edmund Burke of Beaconsfield, University of Delaware Press 2003

Paul Langford, A Polite and Commercial People, Oxford University Press 1994

Paul Langford, Walpole and the Robinocracy, Chadwyck-Healey 1986

Harold Laski, Political Thought in England from Locke to Bentham, Holt 1920

W. E. H. Lecky, A History of England in the Eighteenth Century, 8 vols, 1878–90

Allan Luks and Peggy Payne, The Healing Power of Doing Good, iUniverse.com 2001

Jim McCue, Edmund Burke and our Present Discontents, Claridge Press 1997

John James McGregor, A New Picture of Dublin, 1821

Alasdair MacIntyre, After Virtue, Duckworth 1981

Alasdair MacIntyre, Whose Justice? Which Rationality?, Duckworth 1996

C. B. Macpherson, The Political Theory of Possessive Individualism, Clarendon Press 1965.

Thomas Mann and Norman Ornstein, It’s Even Worse than It Looks, Basic Books 2012

Harvey Mansfield, Statesmanship and Party Government: A Study of Burke and Bolingbroke, University of Chicago Press 1965

David Marsh, The Euro: The Battle for the New Global Currency, Yale University Press 2009

J. S. Mill, Essays on Some Unsettled Questions of Political Economy, 1829–30

B. R. Mitchell, British Historical Statistics, Cambridge University Press 1988 (revised edn 2011)

L. G. Mitchell, Charles James Fox, Penguin 1997

L. G. Mitchell, Charles James Fox and the Disintegration of the Whig Party, Oxford University Press 1971

Robert A. G. Monks, Corpocracy: How CEOs and the Business Roundtable Hijacked the World’s Greatest Wealth Machine … And How to Get It Back, John Wiley 2007

Thomas Moore, Memoirs of the Life of the Right Honourable Richard Brinsley Sheridan, 1824

Lewis Namier, England in the Age of the American Revolution, Macmillan 1930

Lewis Namier, The Structure of Politics at the Accession of George III, Macmillan 1929

Jesse Norman (ed.), The Achievement of Michael Oakeshott, Duckworth 1992

Jesse Norman, The Big Society, University of Buckingham Press 2010

Jesse Norman, ‘Conservative Free Markets, and the Case for Real Capitalism’, www.jessenorman.com

Michael Oakeshott, Rationalism in Politics, revised edn, ed. T. Fuller, Liberty Press 1991

Frank O’Gorman, Edmund Burke: His Political Philosophy, Allen & Unwin 1973

Frank O’Gorman, The Emergence of the British Two-Party System 17601832, Edward Arnold 1982

Frank O’Gorman, Voters, Patrons and Parties, Oxford University Press 1989

Noël O’Sullivan, Conservatism, Everyman 1976

Mark Pagel, Wired for Culture: The Natural History of Human Cooperation, Allen Lane 2012

Richard Pares, King George III and the Politicians, Oxford University Press 1953

Nicholas Penny, Reynolds: Catalogue of a Royal Academy of Arts Exhibition, Weidenfeld & Nicolson 1986

J. G. A. Pocock, Virtue, Commerce and History, Cambridge University Press 1985

Robert Putnam, Bowling Alone, Simon & Schuster 2000

John Quiggin, Zombie Economics, Princeton University Press 2010

Christopher Reid, Edmund Burke and the Practice of Political Writing, Gill & Macmillan 1985

Nick Robins, The Corporation that Changed the World, Pluto Press 2006

Simon Schama, Citizens, Knopf 1989

Roger Scruton, The Meaning of Conservatism, Penguin 1980

Andrei Shleifer, Inefficient Markets: An Introduction to Behavioral Finance, Oxford University Press 2000

Richard Shweder, Why Do Men Barbeque? Recipes for Cultural Psychology, Harvard University Press 2003

Christian Smith, Kari Christoffersen, Hilary Davidson and Patricia Snell Herzog, Lost in Transition: The Dark Side of Emerging Adulthood, Oxford University Press 2011

Leo Strauss, Natural Right and History, University of Chicago Press 1965

Andrew Sullivan, The Conservative Soul, HarperCollins 2006

Sam Tanenhaus, The Death of Conservatism, Random House 2009

Philip E. Tetlock, Expert Political Judgement, Princeton University Press 2006

P. D. G. Thomas, The House of Commons in the Eighteenth Century, Oxford University Press 1971

Lionel James Trotter, Warren Hastings: A Biography, London 1878

Jenny Uglow, Dr Johnson, his Club and Other Friends, National Portrait Gallery 1998

Various, Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press 1885–

Horace Walpole, Memoirs of the Reign of King George III, ed. G. F. R. Barker, 4 vols, 1894

Stanley Weintraub, Disraeli, Hamish Hamilton 1993

Woodrow Wilson, Essential Writings and Speeches of the Scholar-President, ed. Mario R. DiNunzio, New York University Press 2006