Common Sense

Name: Common Sense
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ISBN: 9780674051164

ISBN-10: 0674051165

ISBN-13: 9780674051164

Edition: 2010

Authors: Thomas Paine, Alan S. Taylor

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"In Common Sense a writer found his moment to change the world," Alan Taylor writes in his introduction. When Painers"s attack on the British mixed constitution of kings, lords, and commons was published in January 1776, fighting had already erupted between British troops and American Patriots, but many Patriots still balked at seeking independence. "By discrediting the sovereign king," Taylor argues, "Paine made independence thinkable-as he relocated sovereignty from a royal family to the collective people of a republic." Painers"s American readers could conclude that they stood at "the center of a new and coming world of utopian potential." The John Harvard Library edition follows the…

Book details

List price: $32.00
Copyright year: 2010
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Publication date: 10/15/2010
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 112
Size: 0.56" wide x 0.83" long x 0.03" tall
Weight: 0.242
Language: English