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Thomas Paine - Britain, America, and France in the Age of Enlightenment and Revolution (Hardcover)
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Thomas Paine - Britain, America, and France in the Age of Enlightenment and Revolution (Hardcover)
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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'. J. C. D. Clark explains Paine
against a revised background of early- and mid-eighteenth-century
England. He argues that Paine knew and learned less about events in
America and France than was once thought. He de-attributes a number
of publications, and passages, hitherto assumed to have been
Paine's own, and detaches him from a number of causes (including
anti-slavery, women's emancipation, and class action) with which he
was once associated. Paine's formerly obvious association with the
early origin and long-term triumph of natural rights,
republicanism, and democracy needs to be rethought. As a result,
Professor Clark offers a picture of radical and reforming movements
as more indebted to the initiatives of large numbers of men and
women in fast-evolving situations than to the writings of a few
individuals who framed lasting, and eventually triumphant,
political discourses.
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