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A carregar... Tom Paine and Revolutionary America (1976)por Eric Foner
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Adira ao LibraryThing para descobrir se irá gostar deste livro. Ainda não há conversas na Discussão sobre este livro. In Tom Paine and Revolutionary America, Eric Foner examines the social and intellectual world in which the titular Revolution-era writer lived and worked. Unlike other biographies of Paine, Foner focuses on the larger schools of thought and philosophical movements in Revolutionary America rather than presenting Paine as operating in a vacuum. Foner draws upon Paine's own writing as well as other political broadsides from the era. Perhaps the most interesting part of Foner's biography is his lengthy epilogue, in which he examines Paine's work following the American Revolution and the controversy that surrounded his writing after he returned from France. Foner's work will appeal to academic historians while remaining readable enough for non-historians as well. ( ) sem críticas | adicionar uma crítica
Since its publication in 1976, Tom Paine and Revolutionary America has been recognized as a classic study of the career of the foremost political pamphleteer of the Age of Revolution, and a model of how to integrate the political, intellectual, and social history of the struggle for Americanindependence.Foner skillfully brings together an account of Paine's remarkable career with a careful examination of the social worlds within which he operated, in Great Britain, France, and especially the United States. He explores Paine's political and social ideas and the way he popularized them bypioneering a new form of political writing, using simple, direct language and addressing himself to a reading public far broader than previous writers had commanded. He shows which of Paine's views remained essentially fixed throughout his career, while directing attention to the ways his stance onsocial questions evolved under the pressure of events. This enduring work makes clear the tremendous impact Paine's writing exerted on the American Revolution, and suggests why he failed to have a similar impact during his career in revolutionary France. It also offers new insights into the natureand internal tensions of the republican outlook that helped to shape the Revolution.In a new preface, Foner discusses the origins of this book and the influences of the 1960s and 1970s on its writing. He also looks at how Paine has been adopted by scholars and politicians of many stripes, and has even been called the patron saint of the Internet. Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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