Tom Paine's America

The Rise and Fall of Transatlantic Radicalism in the Early Republic

Nonfiction, History, Americas, United States, Colonial Period (1600-1775)
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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.

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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.

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