Thomas Paine : Britain, America, and France in the Age of Enlightenment and revolution / J.C.D. Clark.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Clark, J. C. D., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Paine, Thomas, 1737-1809.

Paine, Thomas.

Physical Description:

xviii, 485 pages ; 25 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Oxford, United Kingdom : Oxford University Press 2018.

Summary:

"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'."--Page 4 of cover.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 427-469) and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Clark, J. C. D. Thomas Paine.

ISBN:

9780198816997

0198816995

OCLC:

1019669314