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Thomas Paine : Britain, America, and France in the Age of Enlightenment and Revolution

by J. C. D. Clark

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Format Hardback or Cased Book
ISBN-10 0198816995
ISBN-13 9780198816997
Publisher Oxford University Press
Imprint Oxford University Press
Country of Manufacture GB
Country of Publication GB
Publication Date Mar 22nd, 2018
Print length 504 Pages
Weight 882 grams
Dimensions 16.60 x 24.10 x 3.40 cms
Product Classification: Social & cultural history Western philosophy: c 1600 to c 1900 Liberalism & centre democratic ideologies
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J.C.D. Clark demythologizes the history of Thomas Paine, understanding the impact he has had on modern human rights, democracy, and internationalism.
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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