Selected Writings of Thomas Paine (Rethinking the Western Tradition) - Softcover

Paine, Thomas

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0300167458 ISBN 13: 9780300167450

Verlag: Yale University Press, 2014

Inhaltsangabe

A central figure in Western history and American political thought, Thomas Paine continues to provoke debate among politicians, activists, and scholars. People of all ideological stripes are inspired by his trenchant defense of the rights and good sense of ordinary individuals, and his penetrating critiques of arbitrary power.

This volume contains Paine’s explosive Common Sense in its entirety, including the oft-ignored Appendix, as well as selections from his other major writings: The American Crisis, Rights of Man, and The Age of Reason. It also contains several of Paine’s shorter essays. All the documents have been transcribed directly from the originals, making this edition the most reliable one available. Essays by Ian Shapiro, Jonathan Clark, Jane Calvert, and Eileen Hunt Botting bring Paine into sharp focus, illuminating his place in the tumultuous decades surrounding the American and French Revolutions and his larger historical legacy.

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Jane E. Calvert is Associate Professor of History at the University of Kentucky and Director and Chief Editor of the John Dickinson Writings Project. Ian Shapiro is Sterling Professor of Political Science at Yale University, where he also serves as Henry R. Luce Director of the MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Yale University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2014
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0300167458
• ISBN 13: 9780300167450
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 676
• Herausgeber: Shapiro Ian, Calvert Jane E.
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