William Cobbett, Romanticism and the Enlightenment

William Cobbett, Romanticism and the Enlightenment
Author: James Grande
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 248
Release: 2015-10-06
Genre: History
ISBN: 1317317076

Cobbett was one of the greatest journalists of his day. Following a career in the British army he began writing as the loyalist 'Peter Porcupine' in the United States, defending all things British against the French Revolution and its supporters. This is the first collection on Cobbett and contains essays by scholars from a variety of disciplines.

Histories of Technology, the Environment and Modern Britain

Histories of Technology, the Environment and Modern Britain
Author: Jon Agar
Publisher: UCL Press
Total Pages: 357
Release: 2018-04-09
Genre: History
ISBN: 1911576593

Histories of Technology, the Environment and Modern Britain brings together historians with a wide range of interests to take a uniquely wide-lens view of how technology and the environment have been intimately and irreversibly entangled in Britain over the last 300 years. It combines, for the first time, two perspectives with much to say about Britain since the industrial revolution: the history of technology and environmental history. Technologies are modified environments, just as nature is to varying extents engineered. Furthermore, technologies and our living and non-living environment are both predominant material forms of organisation – and self-organisation – that surround and make us. Both have changed over time, in intersecting ways. Technologies discussed in the collection include bulldozers, submarine cables, automobiles, flood barriers, medical devices, museum displays and biotechnologies. Environments investigated include bogs, cities, farms, places of natural beauty and pollution, land and sea. The book explores this diversity but also offers an integrated framework for understanding these intersections.

The Life of William Cobbett

The Life of William Cobbett
Author: G D H Cole
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 429
Release: 2010-11-01
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1136885579

This volume is representative of the historical works of a particular period (1923-29) when there was a hiatus in the output of Cole the theoretician. It is an extraordinary contribution to labour history and is among the finest of his historical works.