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 1789–2006, 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 1714–60, 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 1760–1832, 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