Tom Paine's America
The Rise and Fall of Transatlantic Radicalism in the Early Republic
Nonfiction, History, Americas, United States, Colonial Period (1600-1775)
| Author: | Seth Cotlar | ISBN: | 9780813931067 |
| Publisher: | University of Virginia Press | Publication: | March 29, 2011 |
| Imprint: | University of Virginia Press | Language: | English |
| Author: | Seth Cotlar |
| ISBN: | 9780813931067 |
| Publisher: | University of Virginia Press |
| Publication: | March 29, 2011 |
| Imprint: | University of Virginia Press |
| Language: | English |
Traces the brief but highly significant efflorescence of cosmopolitan, democratic radicalism, associated with Thomas Paine, in the U.S. in the wake of the French Revolution. This democratic moment--regarding race, economic justice, citizenship, and a more truly democratic politics--ended when Federalists and Jeffersonian Republicans alike associated these cosmopolitan democrats with Jacobinism and the Terror.
Traces the brief but highly significant efflorescence of cosmopolitan, democratic radicalism, associated with Thomas Paine, in the U.S. in the wake of the French Revolution. This democratic moment--regarding race, economic justice, citizenship, and a more truly democratic politics--ended when Federalists and Jeffersonian Republicans alike associated these cosmopolitan democrats with Jacobinism and the Terror.
