Thomas Paine and the Promise of America
Publisher: Hill and Wang
Published: July 14, 2005
Place of publication: New York, USA
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 326
ISBN-13: 9780809089703
Copyright date: 2005
Subjects: Political History; Revolutionary; Influence; History; United States - 18th Century; Biography / Autobiography; Politics and government; History: World; Political culture; Paine, Thomas,; Historical - U.S; History / Revolutionary; United States; 1737-1809
First sentence: On January 10, 1776, Common Sense, an unsigned forty-seven-page pamphlet, appeared in Philadelphia and redefined what the American colonists were fighting for.
Table of contents: title: Introduction
pagenum: 3; label: 1
title: A Freeborn Briton
pagenum: 15; label: 2
title: An American Revolutionary
pagenum: 39; label: 3
title: A Citizen of the World
pagenum: 64; label: 4
title: The Age of Paine
pagenum: 91; label: 5
title: Freedom Must Have All or None
pagenum: 118; label: 6
title: When in Contries That Are Called Civilized
pagenum: 156; label: 7
title: Tyranny, Like Hell, Is Not Easily Conqured
pagenum: 192; label: 8
title: We Have It in Our Power
pagenum: 222; label: 9
title: It Is Yet Too Soon to Write the History of the Revolution
pagenum: 258; title: Notes
pagenum: 263; title: Acknowledgments
pagenum: 309; title: Index
pagenum: 311