Tom Paine and Revolutionary AmericaOxford University Press, 2005 - 326 páginas Since its publication in 1976, Tom Paine and Revolutionary America hasbeen recognized as a classic study of the career of the foremost politicalpamphleteer of the Age of Revolution, and a model of how to integrate thepolitical, intellectual, and social history of the struggle for Americanindependence.Foner skillfully brings together an account of Paine's remarkable career witha careful examination of the social worlds within which he operated, in GreatBritain, France, and especially the United States. He explores Paine's politicaland social ideas and the way he popularized them by pioneering a new form ofpolitical writing, using simple, direct language and addressing himself to areading public far broader than previous writers had commanded. He shows whichof Paine's views remained essentially fixed throughout his career, whiledirecting attention to the ways his stance on social questions evolved under thepressure of events. This enduring work makes clear the tremendous impact Paine'swriting exerted on the American Revolution, and suggests why he failed to have asimilar impact during his career in revolutionary France. And it offers newinsights into the nature and internal tensions of the republican outlook thathelped to shape the Revolution.In a new preface, Foner discusses the origins of this book and the influencesof the 1960s and 1970s on its writing. He also looks at how Paine has beenadopted by scholars and politicians of many stripes, and has even been calledthe patron saint of the Internet. |
Índice
The Making of a Radical | 1 |
Paines Philadelphia | 19 |
Common Sense and Paines Republicanism | 71 |
Paine the Philadelphia Radicals and the Political Revolution of 1776 | 107 |
Price Controls and LaissezFaire Paine and the Moral Economy of the American Crowd | 145 |
Paine and the New Nation | 183 |
Epilogue England France and America | 209 |
Notes | 269 |
Acknowledgments | 311 |
Index | 315 |
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