The whistler at the plough : containing travels, statistics, and descriptions of scenery and agricultural customs in most parts of England
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書誌事項
The whistler at the plough : containing travels, statistics, and descriptions of scenery and agricultural customs in most parts of England
（Cambridge library collection, . History）
Cambridge University Press, 2009
- : pbk
- タイトル別名
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The whistler at the plough : containing travels, statistics, and descriptions of scenery & agricultural customs in most parts of England : with letters from Ireland : also "Free trade and the League;" a biography history
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"This digitally printed version 2009"--T.p. verso
Reprint. Originally published: Manchester : J. Ainsworth, 1852
Includes indexes
内容説明・目次
内容説明
Alexander Somerville (1811-85) was an extraordinary figure, notorious in his own lifetime for his espousal of political reform. The youngest child of impoverished farmers from the Scottish border country, he was the last soldier to be flogged publicly in Britain, after openly stating that his regiment would not fire on Reform agitators. In his subsequent journalistic career his stance was influenced by his concern that violent revolution would inevitably be crushed and so lead to greater suffering among the working class, and he therefore supported the less radical reform movement urged by Cobden. He was a passionate opponent of the Corn Laws, and The Whistler at the Plough (published in 1852) is a collection of his letters and essays for the Anti-Corn-Law League, based on information gathered during his own travels around the country. The volume also contains his eyewitness account of the Irish famine of 1847.
目次
- Dedication
- Introduction
- The Whistler
- Index.
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