Political Writings

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Cambridge University Press, 2000 - 347 pages
Thomas Paine was arguably the single most influential political writer in the English-speaking world during the great upheavals of the American and French Revolutions. His writings here reappear in the acclaimed Cambridge Texts series. For this revised and updated edition the distinguished intellectual historian Bruce Kuklick brings together an expanded collection of the classic Paine texts - Common Sense, Rights of Man, and The Age of Reason - as well as the first of Paine's papers on The Crisis of 1776. A brief chronology, updated notes for further reading, and a succinct and lucid introduction to the principal themes of each text offer further support to the student reader. This selection will appeal to students in a variety of disciplines from political theory to American history, and enable further generations to engage at first hand with one of the most gifted and popular expositors of radical ideas ever to generate mass support.
 

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Introduction
vii
Principal events in Paines life
xxiv
Bibliographical note
xxvii
Note on the text
xxx
Common Sense 1776
1
The Crisis Number I 1776
47
Rights of Man Part I 1791
57
Rights of Man Part II 1792
155
The Age of Reason Part I 1794
265
Agrarian Justice 1797
319
Index
339
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