English pamphleteer, official, and politician

An account of the European settlements in America. Containing an accurate description of their extent, climate, productions, trade, genius, and dispositions of their inhabitants, the interests of the several powers of Europe with respect to those settlements; and their political and commercial views with regard to each other / By Edmund Burke.

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