Description
Book SynopsisThomas Paine often declared himself a citizen of the world. This Norton Critical Edition presents Paine and his writing within the transatlantic and global context of the revolutionary ideas and actions of his time.
Table of ContentsIntroduction: Thomas Paine and the Revolutionary Enlightenment, 1770s-1790s
The Texts of Common Sense and Other Writings
Common Sense (1776)
The American Crisis #6, October 20, 1778
From Rights of Man, Part First, February 1791
Reasons for Preserving the Life of Louis Capet, January 15, 1793
Shall Louis XVI Have Respite? January 19, 1793
Agrarian Justice (1797)
Contexts
[Second Continental Congress] • A Declaration . . . Setting Forth the Causes and Necessity of Their Taking Up Arms, July 1775
[Pennsylvania General Assembly] • An Act for the Gradual Abolition of Slavery, March 1, 1780
Quobna Ottobah Cugoano • From Thoughts and Sentiments on the Evil and Wicked Traffic of the Slavery and Commerce of the Human Species (1787)
Richard Price • A Discourse on the Love of Our Country (1789)
James Madison • On Perpetual Peace, February 2, 1792
Will Chip, a Country Carpenter [Hannah More] • Village Politics: Addressed to All the Mechanics, Journeymen, and Day-Labourers, in Great Britain (1793)
George Washington • Farewell Address, September 19, 1796
Interpretations
Robert A. Ferguson • The Commonalities of Common Sense
Nathan R. Perl-Rosenthal • The "Divine Right of Republics": Hebraic Republicanism and the Debate over Kingless Government in Revolutionary America
Gary Kates • From Liberalism to Radicalism: Tom Paine's Rights of Man
Gregory Claeys • From The Origins of the Rights of Labor: Republicanism, Commerce, and the Construction of Modern Social Theory in Britain, 1796-1805
Selected Bibliography
Index
