Empire and Imperialism: Europe. Few subjects have generated as much controversy as that of European imperialism in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Because of the term's pejorative connotations, even attempting to define it causes difficulties.
Edmund Burke. From Conservapedia. Edmund Burke (born January 12, 1729 in Dublin, died July 9, 1797) was an Anglo-Irish statesman, an orator, and a leading conservative political theorist who is still widely read and continue to shape conservative attitudes.
Wollstonecraft first entered this fray in 1790 with A Vindication of the Rights of Men, a response to Edmund Burke 's Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790). In his Reflections, Burke criticised the view of many British thinkers and writers who had welcomed the early stages of the French revolution.