Tom Paine's America : the rise and fall of transatlantic radicalism in the early republic / Seth Cotlar.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cotlar, Seth.

Series:

Jeffersonian America.

Jeffersonian America

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Radicalism--United States--History--18th century.

Radicalism.

United States--Politics and government--1783-1809.

United States.

Paine, Thomas, 1737-1809.

Paine, Thomas.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (284 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The Democratic Party that won the national election of 1800 was, ironically, the beneficiary of this backlash; for they were able to position themselves as the advocates of a more moderate, safe vision of democracy that differentiated itself from the supposedly aristocratic Federalists to their right and the dangerously democratic Painite Jacobins to their left.-- Rosemarie Zagarri, George Mason University, author of Revolutionary Backlash: Women and Politics in the Early American Republic.

Contents:

Cover

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1. Imagining a Nation of Politicians: Political Printers and the Reader-Citizens of the 1790s

2. The Politics of Popular Cosmopolitanism

3. Can a Citizen of the World Be a Citizen of the United States?: The Reaction against Popular Cosmopolitanism

4. Conceptualizing Equality in a Commercial Society: Democratic Visions of Economic Justice

5. "The General Will Is Always Good . . . But by What Sign Shall We Know It?": Debating the Role of the Public in a Representative Democracy

Epilogue

Notes

Bibliography

Index

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Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786613585172

9781280489945

1280489944

9780813931067

0813931061

OCLC:

755623990