Rural Rides: Volume 1 (Everyman's Library) - Hardcover

William Cobbett

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 046000638X ISBN 13: 9780460006385

Publisher: Dutton Books, 1975

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About the Author

William Cobbett (1763-1835) spent his youth as a farm worker and gardener. He lived in revolutionary France and Philadelphia where, as 'Peter Porcupine', he rose to fame as a pro-British and anti-Jacobin journalist. Later, back in England, he became a Radical and promoted the cause of reform in politics and agriculture. Ian Dyck is Associate Professor of History at Simon Fraser University, British Columbia. He is the author of 'William Cobbett and Rural Popular Culture' (CUP, 1992).

Edition details

• Publisher: Dutton Books
• Publication date: 1975
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 046000638X
• ISBN 13: 9780460006385
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 336
• Editor: Asa Briggs