Books by F. P. Lock

Gibbon's History is one of the great master-narratives in the Western tradition. This book examines the ways in which Gibbon uses numbers: not only as historical evidence, for informational purposes, but to persuade (and sometimes to amuse), through the creation of a narrative voice that is at once authoritative and personal.

Describes Edmund Burke's political and intellectual world, stressing the importance of the idea of 'property' in Burke's thought. This book focuses on Burke's personal and political situation in the late 1780s to explain how the Reflections came to be written.