Thomas Paine: Enlightenment, Revolution, and the Birth of Modern NationsPenguin, 04.09.2007 - 432 Seiten A fresh new look at the Enlightenment intellectual who became the most controversial of America's founding fathers Despite his being a founder of both the United States and the French Republic, the creator of the phrase "United States of America," and the author of Common Sense, Thomas Paine is the least well known of America's founding fathers. This edifying biography by Craig Nelson traces Paine's path from his years as a London mechanic, through his emergence as the voice of revolutionary fervor on two continents, to his final days in the throes of dementia. By acquainting us as never before with this complex and combative genius, Nelson rescues a giant from obscurity-and gives us a fascinating work of history. |
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... Europe's most notorious prison , Newgate . By the time of his re- lease , the man had come to believe that he had spent his American years living in a fool's paradise , blind to the debauched march of English history . Now he found that ...
... Europe's most notorious prison , Newgate . By the time of his re- lease , the man had come to believe that he had spent his American years living in a fool's paradise , blind to the debauched march of English history . Now he found that ...
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... European avant - garde , who had once hoped to drive out corrupt monarchies and establish democratic republics , had in turn been silenced by the reigns of Terror , Bonaparte , and England's Pitt the Younger . While a Tory Federalist ...
... European avant - garde , who had once hoped to drive out corrupt monarchies and establish democratic republics , had in turn been silenced by the reigns of Terror , Bonaparte , and England's Pitt the Younger . While a Tory Federalist ...
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... Europe , Africa , and India , on the oceans , and in the New World . In the end , the key to victory in the Seven Years War would turn out to be an enormous strategic debt incurred by the rheumy - eyed first minister of England ...
... Europe , Africa , and India , on the oceans , and in the New World . In the end , the key to victory in the Seven Years War would turn out to be an enormous strategic debt incurred by the rheumy - eyed first minister of England ...
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... Europe produce volume after volume , attempting to establish an or- dering of everything , from Johnson's Dictionary to Erasmus Darwin's Zoonomia to Joseph Priestley's History of Electricity and Uppsala botanist Carolus Linnaeus's ...
... Europe produce volume after volume , attempting to establish an or- dering of everything , from Johnson's Dictionary to Erasmus Darwin's Zoonomia to Joseph Priestley's History of Electricity and Uppsala botanist Carolus Linnaeus's ...
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... Europe ; end- less civil disorder over religion ( practically no English stained glass survives today , as it was ... European middle class — mechanics and merchants both - had had enough , as captured in the lifelong motto of Talleyrand ...
... Europe ; end- less civil disorder over religion ( practically no English stained glass survives today , as it was ... European middle class — mechanics and merchants both - had had enough , as captured in the lifelong motto of Talleyrand ...
Inhalt
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Pragmatic Utopians | 51 |
Hell Is Not Easily Conquered | 101 |
The Silas Deane Affair | 126 |
The Missionary Bereft of His Mission | 146 |
Droits de lHomme ou Droits du Seigneur? | 181 |
The Sovereigns Among Us | 235 |
The Religion of Science | 260 |
The Perfidious Mr Morris | 273 |
Utopian Dissolves | 305 |
Provenance | 326 |
Notes | 341 |
Sources | 365 |
Index | 377 |
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