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Tom Paine's America: The Rise and Fall of Transatlantic Radicalism in the Early Republic (Jeffersonian America)
Seth Cotlar
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Description for Tom Paine's America: The Rise and Fall of Transatlantic Radicalism in the Early Republic (Jeffersonian America)
Paperback. Series: Jeffersonian America. Num Pages: 288 pages, black & white illustrations, figures. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JPFK; JPHV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 17. Weight in Grams: 399.
Tom Paine’s America explores the vibrant, transatlantic traffic in people, ideas, and texts that profoundly shaped American political debate in the 1790s. In 1789, when the Federal Constitution was ratified, “democracy” was a controversial term that very few Americans used to describe their new political system. That changed when the French Revolution - and the wave of democratic radicalism that it touched off around the Atlantic World - inspired a growing number of Americans to imagine and advocate for a wide range of political and social reforms that they proudly called “democratic.”
One of the figureheads of this new ... Read more
Tom Paine’s America explores the vibrant, transatlantic traffic in people, ideas, and texts that profoundly shaped American political debate in the 1790s. In 1789, when the Federal Constitution was ratified, “democracy” was a controversial term that very few Americans used to describe their new political system. That changed when the French Revolution - and the wave of democratic radicalism that it touched off around the Atlantic World - inspired a growing number of Americans to imagine and advocate for a wide range of political and social reforms that they proudly called “democratic.”
One of the figureheads of this new ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
University of Virginia Press
Condition
New
Series
Jeffersonian America
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
Charlottesville, United States
ISBN
9780813936499
SKU
V9780813936499
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About Seth Cotlar
Seth Cotlar is Professor of History at Willamette University, USA.
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