A Year's Residence in the United States of America, Part 1
A Year's Residence in the United States of America, Part 1

Author: William Cobbett

Publisher: Lulu.com

Published: 2010-05-24

Total Pages: 110

ISBN-13: 0557487773

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"The farms are so many plots originally scooped out of woods; though in King's and Queen's counties the land is generally pretty much deprived of the woods, which, as in every other part of America that I have seen, are beautiful beyond all description. The Walnut of two or three sorts, the Plane; the Hickory, Chestnut, Tulip Tree, Cedar, Sassafras, Wild Cherry, (sometimes 60 feet high); more than fifty sorts of Oaks; and many other trees, but especially the Flowering Locust, or Accasia, which, in my opinion, surpasses all other trees, and some of which, in this Island, are of a very great height and girt. The Orchards constitute a feature of great beauty. Every farm has its orchard, and, in general, of cherries as well as of apples and pears. Of the cultivation and crops of these, I shall speak in another part of the work." -- William Cobbett

A Year's Residence in the United States of America Part 3
A Year's Residence in the United States of America Part 3

Author: William Cobbett

Publisher: Lulu.com

Published: 2011-12-06

Total Pages: 110

ISBN-13: 110532866X

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"The farms are so many plots originally scooped out of woods; though in King's and Queen's counties the land is generally pretty much deprived of the woods, which, as in every other part of America that I have seen, are beautiful beyond all description. The Walnut of two or three sorts, the Plane; the Hickory, Chestnut, Tulip Tree, Cedar, Sassafras, Wild Cherry, (sometimes 60 feet high); more than fifty sorts of Oaks; and many other trees, but especially the Flowering Locust, or Accasia, which, in my opinion, surpasses all other trees, and some of which, in this Island, are of a very great height and girt. The Orchards constitute a feature of great beauty. Every farm has its orchard, and, in general, of cherries as well as of apples and pears. Of the cultivation and crops of these, I shall speak in another part of the work." -- William Cobbett

A Year's Residence in the United States of America
A Year's Residence in the United States of America

Author: William Cobbett

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2011-09-22

Total Pages: 631

ISBN-13: 1108032702

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The English political reformer William Cobbett (1763-1835) discusses the practicalities of farming in America in this 1818-9 publication.

Liberty and Liberticide
Liberty and Liberticide

Author: Michael J. Turner

Publisher: Lexington Books

Published: 2013-11-15

Total Pages: 289

ISBN-13: 0739178180

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America was important to many British radicals. It was a model, an exemplar, a source of inspiration, and American events were believed to have a bearing on reform debates in Britain. Many scholars focus on the positive impressions of the United States that prominent British radicals entertained, developed, and propagated, but it is necessary also to explore the reasons why some radicals condemned rather than praised America, and to explain how America was conceptualized and used by them, and to what purpose. Liberty and Liberticide focuses on the influence America exerted over the ideas and activities of nineteenth-century British radicals. While some looked on America as the model of liberty, others associated it with the destruction of liberty. Turner shows how radicals’ views about the United States and the course of Anglo-American relations shaped their domestic reform agenda and their assumptions about British political values and Britain’s place in the world.