About this title: I found the working people of Frome very intelligent; very well informed as to the cause of their misery; not at all humbuggered by the canters, whether about religion or loyalty. -from "Salisbury to Highworth, Saturday, 2 September" Son of an innkeeper, former soldier, champion of the working class, early anticorporate 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 ...
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: J.M. Dent & Sons
Date Published: 1948
Description: Good. This edition reprinted 1957; This edition reprinted 1966; Ex College library usual library markings; rest Hardback complete with dustcover, rest All in good condition; read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Cosimo Classics
Date Published: 2005
ISBN-13:9781596055780ISBN:1596055782
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Description: Good. ( Everyman Library 1948, Hardback. ) In this fascinating and now classic work, Cobbett provides a powerfully evocative account of rural life and landscape in Southern England in the early years of the 19th century. While doing so, Cobbett also gives us his critique of urban industrial capitalist society, the impact on the rural population of enclosures and capitalist farming practices, as well as describing the lives of the exploited poor. The book itself is in a good condition for its ... read more
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