Porcupine's Political Censor, for

Porcupine's Political Censor, for

Author: MULTIPLE CONTRIBUTORS.

Publisher: Gale Ecco, Print Editions

Published: 2018-04-22

Total Pages: 218

ISBN-13: 9781385166864

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The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works in the largest archive of its kind. Now for the first time these high-quality digital copies of original 18th century manuscripts are available in print, making them highly accessible to libraries, undergraduate students, and independent scholars. Delve into what it was like to live during the eighteenth century by reading the first-hand accounts of everyday people, including city dwellers and farmers, businessmen and bankers, artisans and merchants, artists and their patrons, politicians and their constituents. Original texts make the American, French, and Industrial revolutions vividly contemporary. ++++ The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++ British Library P006085 'Peter Porcupine' = William Cobbett. Some issues include half-title with date of issue. Title pages include contents note or table of contents. Imprints do not include date; years of publication from dates of issues. "Price, one quarter of a dollar" below imprint. Includes reports and commentary on the political situation in the United States. Author is anti-democratic, anti-French, anti-Thomas Paine. Issues have individual signatures. Description based on: March 1797. Philadelphia [Penn.]: published by William Cobbett, opposite Christ's church, [1796-1797]. v.; 21 cm (8°)


The Conservative Press in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century America

The Conservative Press in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century America

Author: Ronald Lora

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA

Published: 1999-08-30

Total Pages: 414

ISBN-13: 0313032580

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Selecting journals that speak for a very large number of topics addressed by the conservative press, this volume profiles selected conservative journals published since 1787. The conservative press has scarcely spoken with a single voice, whether the topics treated or even the time inhabited are the same or different. Yet, these journals testify to the persistent vigor and importance of conservatism. Together they provide a focused survey of the history of American conservative thought from the late 18th Century to the late 19th Century. Along with the companion volume covering the 20th Century conservative press, the book provides an important resource on conservative thought in America. Despite the disparities in conservative intellectual thought, the journals covered, even the more idiosyncratic and extreme, are connected by their core values of conservatism. The book is organized into sections reflecting these connections. The first section covers journals associated with Federal, Whig, or, in the Civil War era, Northern Democratic political interests. A later section includes journals sharing an attachment to Southern conservative values during the antebellum and Reconstruction periods. Two sections deal, respectively, with 19th Century Orthodox Protestant periodicals and 19th Century Catholic and Episcopal journals, and yet another section discusses journals united by a major focus on literary topics and cultural connections.


The Marquis

The Marquis

Author: Laura Auricchio

Publisher: Vintage

Published: 2015-08-18

Total Pages: 450

ISBN-13: 0307387453

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Winner of the 2015 American Library in Paris Book Award The Marquis de Lafayette at age nineteen volunteered to fight under George Washington and became the French hero of the American Revolution. In this major biography Laura Auricchio looks past the storybook hero and selfless champion of righteous causes who cast aside family and fortune to advance the transcendent aims of liberty and fully reveals a man driven by dreams of glory only to be felled by tragic, human weaknesses. Drawing on substantial new research conducted in libraries, archives, museums, and private homes in France and the United States, Auricchio, gives us history on a grand scale revealing the man and his complex life, while challenging and exploring the complicated myths that have surrounded his name for more than two centuries