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Rights of Man (Penguin Classics) - Softcover

Paine, Thomas

 
9780140390155: Rights of Man (Penguin Classics)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0140390154 ISBN 13: 9780140390155
Verlag: Penguin Classics, 1984

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One of the great classics on democracy, Rights of Man was published in England in 1791 as a vindication of the French Revolution and a critique of the British system of government. In direct, forceful prose, Paine defends popular rights, national independence, revolutionary war, and economic growth - all considered dangerous and even seditious issues. In his introduction Eric Foner presents an overview of Paine's career as political theorist and pamphleteer, and supplies essential background material to Rights of Man. He discusses how Paine created a language of modern politics that brought important issues to the common man and the working classes and assesses the debt owed to Paine by the American and British radical traditions.

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Thomas Paine was born in1737 at Thetford, Norfolk in England, as a son of a Quaker. He immigrated to America in 1774. There he published works criticising the slavery and supporting American independence. He became very popular but returned to England where he became involved in the French Revolution. After that he returned to America where he died in 1802.

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No individual's writing better exemplifies this transformation of the language of social and political change than that of Thomas Paine (1737-1809). And no individual has a better claim to be the world's first international revolutionary. His writings bear witness to his revolutionary activities, and provide us with a detailed picture of the evolving understanding of social and political change at the end of the eighteenth century.

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Verlag
Penguin Classics
Erscheinungsdatum
1984
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0140390154
ISBN 13 
9780140390155
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
288
Herausgeber
Collins Henry
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