410 стр. 1 иллюстрация Аннотация A remarkably perceptive and vivid life of one of England’s greatest radicals.The early years of the 19th-century were ones of misery and oppression. The common people were forced into conditions of extreme poverty by enclosures and the Agricultural Revolution, and the long Tory administration of Lord Liverpool saw its task as keeping law and order at all costs. The cause of reform was a dangerous one, as William Cobbett was to find.Cobbett is best known for his ‘Rural Rides’, a classic account of early-19th-century Britain which has never been out of print. But he was a much greater… СкачатьПодробнее Оцените книгу Richard Ingrams The Life and Adventures of William Cobbett