Rights of Man, Common Sense, and Other Political Writings
`An army of principles will penetrate where an army of soldiers cannot . . . it will march on the horizon of the world and it will conquer.'Thomas Paine was the first international revolutionary. His Common Sense (1776) was the most widely read pamphlet of the American Revolution; his Rights of Man (1791-2) was the most famous defence of the French Revolution and sent out a clarion call for revolution throughout the world. He paid the price for his principles: he was outlawed in Britain, narrowly escaped execution in France, and was villified as an atheist and a Jacobin on his return to America.Paine loathed the unnatural inequalities foste…
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Weitere Autoren: Philp, Mark (Hrsg.)
- ISBN: 978-0-19-160562-8
- EAN: 9780191605628
- Produktnummer: 13944379
- Verlag: Oxford University Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 1998
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 3'064 KB
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Author of Paine in Past Masters, Mark Philp is Fellow and Tutor in Politics at Oriel College, Oxford.
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