The Legacy of Thomas Paine in the Transatlantic World

ISBN-13: 9781848935778 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 248 str.

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Thomas Paine is one of the foremost thinkers of the eighteenth century and a key radical figure in both British and American history. But Paine's political legacy has been largely overlooked. This collection of essays by an international team of scholars looks at how Paine's work has been reinterpreted over the two hundred years since his death.

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Introduction: The Use and Abuse of Thomas Paine in the Transatlantic World  Sam Edwards and Marcus Morris  Part I: The Image and Idea(s) of Paine: Origins, Use and Reuse  1. The Image of Tom: Paine in Print and Portraiture  W. A. Speck  2. "I Am Made to Say What I Never Wrote": Deism, Spiritualism and Ventriloquizing Paine, c. 1790s-1850s  Patrick W. Hughes  3. All Paine: The American Mind and the Creation of the League of Nations and the U.N.  Michael Holm  4. The Distortion of Thomas Paine’s Philosophy of Government  Gary Berton  Part II: Discovering and Using Paine’s Radicalism  5. "Revolutions Are the Order of the Day": Atlantic Fragments of Thomas Paine, c. 1819-1832  Matteo Battistini  6. Posthumous Paine in the United Kingdom, 1809-1832: Jacobin or Loyalist Cult?  Matthew Roberts  7. "The Neglect of Paine Seems Particularly Strange at the Present Political Juncture": Explaining British Socialists’ Relationship to Paine, c. 1884-1914  Marcus Morris  8. Citizens of the World: Paine and the Political Prisoners Transported to Australia  Tony Moore  Part III: Remembering and Remaking Paine  9. Common Sense on the Lower East Side: Thomas Paine and the Era of Immigration, c. 1900-1950  Louis Mazzari  10. "A Monument in Every City?": Thomas Paine in Memoriam  Theodore Marotta  11. "He Came from America Didn’t He?": The Thetford Statue Controversy and the Problem of Paine in Transatlantic Memory, c. 1909-1970  Sam Edwards  Afterword: The Struggle for Paine’s Memory and the Making of American Democracy  Harvey J. Kaye