Date of Award

Spring 1979

Document Type

Thesis

Degree Name

Master of Arts (MA)

Department

History

Committee Director

Douglas Greene

Committee Member

Richard Rutyna

Committee Member

Peter C. Stewart

Call Number for Print

Special Collections LD4331.H47 Y65

Abstract

Edmund Burke, the eighteenth-century philosopher and politician, participated as a member of the Marquis of Rockingham's political faction, as a member of England's Parliament for Bristol from 1774 to 1780 and as an agent for the colony of New York from 1771 to 1775. The purpose of this inquiry is to describe the relations between these two cities, Burke's motivations, his rationalization of his convictions and his prior allegiance to his patron in dealing with his constituencies during his ten years in service to these two cities. As a leader Burke was contradictory and inconsistent following Rockingham's leadership or independently working for his own program and principles, and ignoring his constituents or energetically attending to their instructions and interests. He was influential not so much for his power with Rockingham or as a representative or agent as he was as a party propagandist promulgating his ideas of empire which were sometimes confused with those of his patron, Rockingham.

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DOI

10.25777/zg1s-m482

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