Author: William Cobbett
Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 542

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Author: Christof Dejung
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691177341
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 396

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This essay collection presents a global history of the middle class and its rise around the world during the age of empire. It compares middle-class formation in various regions, highlighting differences and similarities, and assesses the extent to which bourgeois growth was tied to the increasing exchange of ideas and goods and was a result of international connections and entanglements. Grouped by theme, the book shows how bourgeois values can shape the liberal world order.

Author: Matthew Rowlinson
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521193796
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 267

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Modern systems of paper money and intellectual property became established in the Romantic period. Matthew Rowlinson shows how a new conception of material artefacts as the bearers of abstract value shaped Romantic conceptions of character, material culture and labour.

Author: James Grande
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 135188462X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 297

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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the 250th anniversary of Cobbett’s birth in 1763, this book provides a selection of his writings - both published and unpublished - that highlight his talents, obsessions, and concerns.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: British Museum. Department of Printed Books
Publisher:
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Category : English imprints
Languages : en
Pages : 608

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Author: Perry J. Ashley
Publisher: Detroit, Mich. : Gale Research Company
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 556

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Contains the stories of the great pioneers who created the American press and nurtured it from a position of complete subjection to authority in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries to the political and economic independence of the "penny press," which catered to the newly enfranchised working class of the nineteenth century.

Author: George Spater
Publisher:
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Category : Authors, English
Languages : en
Pages : 344

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Author: George Spater
Publisher:
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Category : Authors, English
Languages : en
Pages : 360

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Author: British Library
Publisher:
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Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 536

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Author: William Cobbett
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 246

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