Selections From William Cobbett's Illustrated Rural Rides 1821-1832 - Hardcover

Cobbett, William

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0863500196 ISBN 13: 9780863500190

Publisher: Webb & Bower, 1984

Synopsis

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About this title

From the Back Cover

Son of an innkeeper, former soldier, champion of the working class, early anti-corporate activist, and future Member of Parliament-Will Cobbett's unique eye offers us a perspective on 19th-century England we won't find anywhere else. Cobbett roamed Southern England on horseback in the years between 1821 and 1832, gathering his "economical and political observations relative to matters applicable to, and illustrated by, the state of" that charming part of the world, one in the throes of massive change in the wake of the Industrial Revolution.

This is an extraordinary record of a world long gone, one very little documented when it existed, by a voice who was far ahead of his time.

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: Webb & Bower
• Publication date: 1984
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0863500196
• ISBN 13: 9780863500190
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 240
• Editor: Morris Christopher