Thomas Paine : Britain, America, and France in the Age of Enlightenment and revolution /
Clark, J. C. D.,
Thomas Paine : Britain, America, and France in the Age of Enlightenment and revolution / J.C.D. Clark. - First edition. - Oxford, United Kingdom : Oxford University Press, 2018. - xviii, 485 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 427-469) and index.
Introduction : the age of Paine? -- Contexts and biography -- Pathways of political change : from (anti-)Jacobite to Jacobin -- Discourses and their exponents -- The unexpected revolution : America, 1774-1787 -- The unexpected revolution, France, 1787-1802 -- Paine, religion, and politics : the Deist legacy -- Receptions and reinterpretations : Paine's lasting influence -- Conclusion : the age of revolution, the Enlightenment, and the dynamics of reforming traditions.
"Thomas Paine (1737-1809) was England's greatest revolutionary: no other reformer was as actively involved in events of the scale of the American and French Revolutions, and none wrote such best-selling texts with the impact of Common Sense and Rights of Man. No one else combined the roles of activist and theorist, or did so in the 'age of revolutions', fundamental as it was to the emergence of the 'modern world'. But his fame meant that he was taken up and reinterpreted for current use by successive later commentators and politicians, so that the 'historic Paine' was too often obscured by the 'usable Paine'."--Page 4 of cover.
9780198816997
2017954437
Paine, Thomas, 1737-1809.
Paine, Thomas 1737-1809
Paine, Thomas
England
USA
Frankreich
Grossbritannien
JC177.A4 / C53 2018
320.5 / C592
Thomas Paine : Britain, America, and France in the Age of Enlightenment and revolution / J.C.D. Clark. - First edition. - Oxford, United Kingdom : Oxford University Press, 2018. - xviii, 485 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 427-469) and index.
Introduction : the age of Paine? -- Contexts and biography -- Pathways of political change : from (anti-)Jacobite to Jacobin -- Discourses and their exponents -- The unexpected revolution : America, 1774-1787 -- The unexpected revolution, France, 1787-1802 -- Paine, religion, and politics : the Deist legacy -- Receptions and reinterpretations : Paine's lasting influence -- Conclusion : the age of revolution, the Enlightenment, and the dynamics of reforming traditions.
"Thomas Paine (1737-1809) was England's greatest revolutionary: no other reformer was as actively involved in events of the scale of the American and French Revolutions, and none wrote such best-selling texts with the impact of Common Sense and Rights of Man. No one else combined the roles of activist and theorist, or did so in the 'age of revolutions', fundamental as it was to the emergence of the 'modern world'. But his fame meant that he was taken up and reinterpreted for current use by successive later commentators and politicians, so that the 'historic Paine' was too often obscured by the 'usable Paine'."--Page 4 of cover.
9780198816997
2017954437
Paine, Thomas, 1737-1809.
Paine, Thomas 1737-1809
Paine, Thomas
England
USA
Frankreich
Grossbritannien
JC177.A4 / C53 2018
320.5 / C592