Thomas Paine: Britain, America, and France in the Age of Enlightenment and Revolution

ISBN-13: 9780198816997 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 512 str.

J. C. D. Clark

Opis

J.C.D. Clark demythologizes the history of Thomas Paine, understanding the impact he has had on modern human rights, democracy, and internationalism.

Recenzje

A very substantial work of historical scholarship.

O autorze

Jonathan Clark was educated as an historian at Cambridge, where he was a Fellow of Peterhouse. At Oxford he was a Fellow of All Souls College, and in the United States was a Visiting Professor at the Committee on Social Thought of the University of Chicago. Latterly he has been Hall Distinguished Professor of British History at the University of Kansas. His special interests are in the 'long eighteenth century', 1660-1832, on both sides of the Atlantic, especially in the themes of religion and politics.