The Life and Letters of William Cobbett in England & America
Author : Lewis Saul Benjamin
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Page : 396 pages
File Size : 17,75 MB
Release : 1913
Category : Great Britain
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Author : Lewis Saul Benjamin
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Page : 396 pages
File Size : 17,75 MB
Release : 1913
Category : Great Britain
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Author : Lewis Saul Benjamin
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Page : 388 pages
File Size : 38,48 MB
Release : 1913
Category : Great Britain
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Author : William Cobbett
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Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,42 MB
Release : 1923
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Author : George Douglas Howard Cole
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Page : 476 pages
File Size : 34,1 MB
Release : 1927
Category : Journalists
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Author : Emma Macleod
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 15,96 MB
Release : 2015-09-30
Category : History
ISBN : 1317315847
Macleod examines changing British conceptions of America across the political spectrum during a period of political, cultural and intellectual upheaval. Macleod incorporates British writers of conservative, liberal and radical views.
Author : James Grande
Publisher : Springer
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 26,25 MB
Release : 2014-08-12
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 113738008X
William Cobbett, the Press and Rural England offers a thorough re-appraisal of William Cobbett (1763-1835), situating his journalism and rural radicalism in relation to contemporary political debates.
Author : William Cobbett
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Page : 0 pages
File Size : 32,62 MB
Release : 1913
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Author : Edward Smith
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 446 pages
File Size : 43,40 MB
Release : 2022-11-13
Category : Biography & Autobiography
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This edition shows us the incredible life and work of William Cobbett (1763-1835), an English author, independent journalist and Member of Parliament. As an intrinsically conservative journalist, he was frustrated by the shady British political establishment of the times and gave strong support to agrarians. He, with a popular agrarian faction, argued that reforming Parliament, including abolishing "rotten boroughs", unnecessary foreign activity and suppression of wages would promote internal peace and ease the poverty of farm labourers and smallholders. He relentlessly sought an end to borough-mongers, sinecurists and "tax-eaters" (overpaid and sometimes corrupt bureaucrats, public servants and stockbrokers), also dismissing British Jews in a typecast by the same token. Early in life he was a soldier and loyal devotee of King and country, but he later pushed for Radicalism, which helped bring about the Reform Act 1832 and his election that year as one of two MPs for the newly enfranchised borough of Oldham. His much-interwoven polemics cover subjects from political reform to religion. He argued that economic improvement could support growth in global population, as an anti-Malthusian. His writing coined the metaphor "a red herring".
Author : James Grande
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 46,62 MB
Release : 2017-03-02
Category : History
ISBN : 135188462X
Politician, journalist, reformer, convict, social commentator and all-round thorn in the side of the establishment, William Cobbett cut a swathe through late-eighteenth and early-nineteenth century British society with his copious and acerbic writings on any and every issue that caught his attention. Both a radical and a conservative, and with strong opinions on any given subject, Cobbett had a talent for controversial and pugnacious writing that echoes down the centuries and still rings fresh today. Commemorating the 250th anniversary of Cobbett’s birth in 1763, this book provides a selection of his writings - both published and unpublished - that highlight his talents, obsessions, and concerns. From corruption and Parliamentary reform, poverty and commerce, to patriotism and religion, the selections display Cobbett at his best - sometimes outraged and excoriating, sometimes sympathetic and reasoned - but always honest and witty. Divided into 14 chapters each dealing with a particular theme, the selections are contextualised so as to provide the necessary historical background for any readers who may be unfamiliar with the period. In so doing, the book not only brings to life the dynamic and rumbustious world of Georgian England within which Cobbett moved, but also reveals many uncanny parallels with modern concerns. Whether espousing political reform, promoting rural affairs or decrying a spiralling national debt, many of Cobbett’s opinions seem as relevant today as when they were first written. Certainly modern readers will find much here to educate, amuse and admire.
Author : William Cobbett
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Page : pages
File Size : 44,62 MB
Release : 1923
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