Common Sense and Other Writings Norton Critical Edition

Name: Common Sense and Other Writings Norton Critical Edition
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ISBN: 9780393978704

ISBN-10: 0393978702

ISBN-13: 9780393978704

Edition: 2012

Authors: Thomas Paine, J. M. Opal

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Thomas Paine often declared himself a citizen of the world. This Norton Critical Edition presents Paine and his writing within the transatlantic and global context of the revolutionary ideas and actions of his time.Thomas Paineâs loyalties were with universal and self-evident principles rather than with a particular group or nation, and it is this dimension that informed his most important works. This Norton Critical Edition shows how Paineâs fury at the British Empire, including its injustices to South Asians and Africans, shaped his first best seller, Common Sense, and how his direct involvement with the French Revolution pushed his ideas toward a unique form of democratic radicalism.…

Book details

List price: $13.99
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company Limited
Publication date: 2/7/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 352
Size: 5.20" wide x 8.40" long x 0.80" tall
Weight: 0.682
Language: English

J. M. Opal is Associate Professor of History at McGill University. He is the author of Beyond the Farm: National Ambitions in Rural New England. His new book, Avenging the People: Andrew Jackson, the Southern Borderlands, and the Ordeal of American Democracy, centers on vengeance and on the man who built both his public and his private life around its pursuit.



Introduction: Thomas Paine and the Revolutionary Enlightenment, 1770s-1790s


The Texts of Common Sense and Other Writings


Common Sense (1776)


The American Crisis #6, October 20, 1778


From Rights of Man, Part First, February 1791


Reasons for Preserving the Life of Louis Capet, January 15, 1793


Shall Louis XVI Have Respite? January 19, 1793


Agrarian justice (1797)


Contexts


Second Continental Congress]


A Declaration . . .Setting Forth the Causes and Necessity of Their Taking Up Arms, July 1775


[Pennsylvania General Assembly]


An Act for the Gradual Abolition of Slavery, March 1, 1780


From Thoughts and Sentiments on the Evil and Wicked Traffic of the Slavery and Commerce of the Human Species (1787)



A Discourse on the Love of Our Country (1789)



On Perpetual Peace, February 2, 1792



Will Chip, a Country Carpenter [Hannah More]


Village Politics: Addressed to All the Mechanics, Journeymen, and Day-Labourers, in Great Britain (1793)


Farewell Address, September 19, 1796



Interpretations


The Commonalities of Common Sense



The "Divine Right of Republics": Hebraic Republicanism and the Debate over Kingless Government in Revolutionary America



From Liberalism to Radicalism: Tom Paine's Rights of Man



From The Origins of the Rights of Labor: Republicanism, Commerce, and the Construction of Modern Social Theory in Britain, 1796-1805



Selected Bibliography


Index