About this title: Peter Porcupine was the pseudonym for the Englishman William Cobbett, the most widely read pamphleteer and journalist in the early American republic. In this book David A. Wilson brings together seven of Cobbett's major American pamphlets with extracts from his newspaper writing and provides an introduction that locates him in the political and social context of his time.
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Cornell Univ Press
Date Published: 1994
ISBN-13:9780801428395ISBN:0801428394
Description: Near Fine. 8vo. xiv, 288 p. Peter Porcupine was William Cobbett's pseudonym. A British immigrant in 1792, as a journalist, he has anti-democracy, anti-egalitarianism. Wilson examines 7 of Cobbett's pamphlets and sets them in the time period. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Cornell University Press, Ithaca, NY, U.S.A.
Date Published: 1994
ISBN-13:9780801428395ISBN:0801428394
Description: As New in As New dust jacket. 0801428394. 288 pp. Index. BRAND NEW condition book and dustjacket. Hardcovers clean with no wear. Interior like new: crisp, clean and tight. Dustjacket mint, in mylar cover. Very nice copy.; 8vo 8"-9" tall. read more
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Cornell Univ Pr, Ithaca, New York, U.S.A.
Date Published: 1994
ISBN-13:9780801428395ISBN:0801428394
Description: Fine in Fine jacket. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. read more
Description: CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS, 1994, HARDCOVER BOOK WITHOUT DUST JACKET, AS NEW COPY, NO MARKINGS TO TEXT OR MARGINS, CONTENTS CLEAN, ISBN-0801428394. read more
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Cornell Univeristy Press, Ithaca NY
Date Published: 1994
ISBN-13:9780801428395ISBN:0801428394
Description: As New/As New. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall 0801428394 Entire book, including DJ is still in original shrink wrap. Edited with an introduction by David A Wilson. Politcal writings from the late 1700s to early 1800s. read more
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Cloth
Publisher: Cornell Univ Pr, Ithaca, New York, U.S.A.
Date Published: 1994
ISBN-13:9780801428395ISBN:0801428394
Description: xiv, 288 p. : ill.; 24 cm. Series: Documents in American social history. Includes bibliographical references and index. "Two years' experience of the country turned Cobbett into a ferocious critic of American democracy. He registered in scathing terms his disgust with changing social and political attitudes in America during the French Revolution, ridiculing the democratic republican enthusiasm for egalitarianism, attacking the first signs of the struggle for women's rights in the new nation, ... read more
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Cornell
Date Published: 1994
ISBN-13:9780801428395ISBN:0801428394
Description: Very Good in Very Good jacket. 288pp "Pamphlets on Republicanism and revolution" Edited with an introduction by David A. Wilson. read more
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