Thomas Paine
Britain, America, and France in the Age of Enlightenment and Revolution
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 31 March 2020
- ISBN 9780198820499
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages504 pages
- Size 235x156x27 mm
- Weight 730 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 2 black and white images 8
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Short description:
J.C.D. Clark demythologizes the history of Thomas Paine, understanding the impact he has had on modern human rights, democracy, and internationalism.
MoreLong description:
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'.
J. C. D. Clark explains Paine against a revised background of early- and mid-eighteenth-century England. He argues that Paine knew and learned less about events in America and France than was once thought. He de-attributes a number of publications, and passages, hitherto assumed to have been Paine's own, and detaches him from a number of causes (including anti-slavery, women's emancipation, and class action) with which he was once associated. Paine's formerly obvious association with the early origin and long-term triumph of natural rights, republicanism, and democracy needs to be rethought. As a result, Professor Clark offers a picture of radical and reforming movements as more indebted to the initiatives of large numbers of men and women in fast-evolving situations than to the writings of a few individuals who framed lasting, and eventually triumphant, political discourses.
Clark has done much to (re)invigorate eighteenth-century British history scholarship, and his new tome Thomas Paine will surely raise interest.
Table of Contents:
Introduction: the Age of Paine?
PART I. DISCOURSES AND CONTEXTS
Contexts and biography
Pathways of political change: from (anti-)Jacobite to Jacobin
Discourses and their exponents
PART II. TEXTS AND CONTINGENCIES
The unexpected revolution: America, 1774-1787
The unexpected revolution: France, 1787-1802
Paine, religion, and politics: the Deist legacy
PART III. DIVERGENCES AND LEGACIES
Receptions and reinterpretations: Paine's lasting influence
Conclusion: the Age of Revolution, the Enlightenment and the dynamics of reforming traditions
Appendix: Paine de-attributions
Bibliography
Index
