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John C. Calhoun was a major character in 19th-century American politics. This work presents a selection of speeches and writings taken from a wide variety of occasions, both public and private, throughout his 40-year political career.

A collection of the important works and speeches of Edmund Burke (1729-1797), British statesman, political philosopher, and founder of modern conservative thought. This work provides a general introduction that gives important insight into Burke's early life, education, professional training, literary and political career, prose style, and more.

Since the former Norwegian prime minister, Gro Harlem Brundtland, led the World Commission on Sustainable Development, Norway has played an important role in international environmental co-operation. This volume looks at how this one state engaged international regimes in order to pursue its own national goals in the following issue areas: climate change, biodiversity, ozone depletion, air pollution, marine pollution and whaling. In doing so, it offers an innovative new approach to the study of international regime effectiveness and on linkages or interactions between international regimes.

The Vision of Richard Weaver is the first collection of essays about this seminal thinker.

Francis Graham Wilson was a central figure in the revival of interest in political philosophy and American political thought in the mid-twentieth century

Two centuries after Edmund Burke published his Reflections on the Revolution in France, his name and reputation stand alongside Locke, Montesquieu, and Hume - the other still-cited grand political thinkers of the eighteenth century

Being and Knowing, rooted in the philosophy of St. Thomas Aquinas, rests on two basic assertions: first, metaphysics is the science of being in its first and ultimate act, existence; second, that existence is known not through observing objects, but in affirming through judgments that these objects are subjects of existence

In this seminal volume, M. E. Bradford defines the Old Whig political tradition in American thought, showing that the inheritance of the prescriptive anti-federalists still lives. For Bradford, important elements in our heritage from the American Revolution have been systematically hidden from our view by anachronistic and partisan scholarship

Originally published in 1963, this classic book is a rethinking of the history of Western political philosophy

Roepke's The Social Crisis of Our Time is a series of blasts against the "malformations" of economics: the Nazi and Communist forms of collectivism both come in for severe criticism

For metaphysicians who have imbibed the sober and inebriating teachings of Thomas Aquinas, existence is an act, the act which makes all things actually to be

Wilhelm Roepke may have been the soundest economist of the twentieth century

This volume is the best-known and most widely discussed work of the influential scholar and critic Irving Babbitt (1865-1933), intellectual leader of the movement known as the New Humanism

On Divorce is an anti-divorce treatise by Louis de Bonald, originally published in 1801 in response to the institution of divorce in France in the aftermath of the French Revolution

Today the idea of natural law as the basic ingredient in moral, legal, and political thought presents a challenge not faced for almost two hundred years

In this unique book, Peter J. Stanlis, the leading Burke scholar in America, has collected all the most important works and speeches of Edmund Burke (1729-1797), British statesman, political philosopher, and founder of modern conservative thought and, with due care to preserve the beauty of Burke's prose, edited them down to their essentials

Originally published in 1963, this classic book is a rethinking of the history of Western political philosophy. Charles N. R. McCoy contrasts classical-medieval principles against the "hypotheses" at the root of modern liberalism and modern conservativism.

This study of Edmund Burke and his philosophy, originally published in 1958, explores his relationship to, and belief in, the natural law. It shows that Burke appealed to natural law in the political problems he encountered in American, Irish, and Indian affairs.

Being and Knowing, rooted in the philosophy of St. Thomas Aquinas, rests on two basic assertions: first, metaphysics is the science of being in its first and ultimate act, existence; second, that existence is known not through observing objects, but in affirming through judgments that these objects are subjects of existence