Speech on Quebec Bill 6 May 1791

Burke, Edmund; Marshall, P. J.; Bryant, Donald C.; Todd, William B.

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“…Even before the mass slave revolt of August 1791, Europeans were already nervously following the racial struggles in the French colony. In May 1791, the London Morning Chronicle quoted Burke as reciting the latest "alarming" report from the French Legislative Assembly on "St. Domingo": "that the troops that had been sent from France had joined the insurgents, and that their General was cut to pieces by his own men" (Burke, 2016). When 100,000 slaves, free blacks, and free mulattos rose up against the white planters, starting on 21 August 1791 (Raupach, 2004: 21), the news of the world's first successful mass colonial slave rebellion reached Britain by mail in September (Scott, 2018: 142).…”

Section: Wollstonecraft and The Haitian Revolution In 1791-92mentioning

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From revolutionary Paris to Nootka Sound to Saint-Domingue: The international politics and prejudice behind Wollstonecraft’s theory of the rights of humanity, 1789–91

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2020

Journal of International Political Theory

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Against the background of the international political crises generated by the early phase of the French Revolution at Nootka Sound in 1790 and in Saint-Domingue in 1791, Mary Wollstonecraft developed a capacious political theory of the “rights of humanity.” She pushed beyond narrow post-revolutionary European constructions of “the rights of man” which ignored or excluded “the poor,” “Indians,” “African slaves,” and “women.” While closely following the international politics of the French Revolution, Wollstonecraft developed the core arguments of A Vindication of the Rights of Men (1790) and A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792). Her key philosophical innovation was to publicly universalize the conceptual scope of rights, such that rights were no longer—implicitly or explicitly—solely the legal entitlement of propertied white European men, but rather the moral and political entitlement of the whole of humanity across nations. Yet she rhetorically contradicted and philosophically limited the cross-cultural universalism of her theory of equal rights by punctuating her arguments with Western Protestant and Orientalist stereotypes of Eastern despotism. Consequently, international politics and international prejudice shaped Wollstonecraft’s theory of equal rights and her application of it to peoples and cultures beyond those of Western Protestant Europe.

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From revolutionary Paris to Nootka Sound to Saint-Domingue: The international politics and prejudice behind Wollstonecraft’s theory of the rights of humanity, 1789–91

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2020

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“…In the American case, his preference was for re-establishing the status quo ante that had obtained before George Grenville’s attempt to raise a revenue in the colonies. However, intriguingly, in 1791, after the ratification of the US constitution and during the midst of the French Revolution, he also publicly defended the principles of the new American regime (Burke, 1791: IV, p. 349).…”

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What is conservatism? History, ideology and party

Bourke

2018

European Journal of Political Theory

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Is there a political philosophy of conservatism? A history of the phenomenon written along sceptical lines casts doubt on the existence of a transhistorical doctrine, or even an enduring conservative outlook. The main typologies of conservatism uniformly trace its origins to opposition to the French Revolution. Accordingly, Edmund Burke is standardly singled out as the 'father' of this style of politics. Yet Burke was de facto an opposition Whig who devoted his career to assorted programmes of reform. In restoring Burke to his original milieu, the argument presented here takes issue with twentieth-century accounts of conservative ideology developed by such figures as Karl Mannheim, Klaus Epstein and Samuel Huntington. It argues that the idea of a conservative tradition is best seen as a belated construction, and that the notion of a univocal philosophy of conservatism is basically misconceived.

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Speech on Quebec Bill 6 May 1791

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From revolutionary Paris to Nootka Sound to Saint-Domingue: The international politics and prejudice behind Wollstonecraft’s theory of the rights of humanity, 1789–91

From revolutionary Paris to Nootka Sound to Saint-Domingue: The international politics and prejudice behind Wollstonecraft’s theory of the rights of humanity, 1789–91

What is conservatism? History, ideology and party

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