The useful cobbler Edmund Burke and the politics of progress - Conniff, James 1942- (Albany State University of New York Press, 1994)
1. Introduction: The Significance of Edmund Burke -- 2. Burke and the Search for the Psychological Basis of Human Action -- 3. The Whiggism of History and the History of Whiggism -- 4. Burke on the Foundations and Nature of Government -- 5. Burke on the Nature and Extent of State Authority -- 6. The Politics of Trusteeship -- 7. Political Parties and Their Uses -- 8. The Decline and Fall of the Theory of Sovereignty -- 9. The French Revolution and the Crisis of European Civilization -- 10. Ireland, India, and the Deluge.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 341-354) and index.
Keywords: Burke, Edmund -- 1729-1797.