The Transatlantic Republican : : Thomas Paine and the Age of Revolutions / / Bernard Vincent.
This collection of essays by Bernard Vincent covers most aspects of Thomas Paine's life, thought, and works. It highlights Paine's contribution to the American and French Revolutions, as well as the active role he played in the intellectual debates of the Age of Enlightenment, in particula...
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| Superior document: | Amsterdam Monographs in American Studies ; 12 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Leiden; , Boston : : BRILL,, 2005. |
| Year of Publication: | 2005 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Amsterdam Monographs in American Studies ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (187 p.) |
| Notes: | Collect. of texts partly publ. prev. |
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction Storming the "Bastille of Words": Tom Paine's Revolution in Writing
- Part I. Paine, America and France
- I The Strategy of Time in Common Sense
- II Thomas Paine, the Masonic Order, and the American Revolution
- III From Fact to Myth: The Americans in Paris during the French Revolution
- IV Paine's "Share" in the French Revolution
- V Thomas Paine, the Louisiana Purchase, and the Rights of Man
- VI A National of Nowhere: The Problem of Thomas Paine's American Citizenship
- Part II. Paine and the Enlightenment
- VII Thomas Paine and the Issue of Universal Suffrage
- VIII Paine's Agrarian Justice and the Birth of the Welfare State
- IX A Quaker with a Difference: Tom Paine's Republican Rhetoric of War and Peace
- X From the Rights of Man to the Rights of God: Thomas Paine's Ultimate Challenge
- XI A Pioneer with a Difference: Thomas Paine and Early 'American Studies'
- Bibliography
- Index.