"Independence is my happiness, and I view things as they are, without regard to place or person; my country is the world, and my religion is to do good." Thomas Paine, Rights of Man
Presents Paine's political writings about the French revolutions. No individual's writing better exemplifies this transformation of the language of social and political change than that of Thomas Paine (1737-1809).
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Collects Paine's political writings about the American and French revolutions
This collection brings together Paine's most powerful political writings in the first fully annotated edition of these works.
The author of Why Orwell Matters demonstrates how Thomas Paine's Declaration of the Rights of Man, first published in 1791, a passionate defense of the inalienable rights of humankind, forms the philosophical cornerstone of the United ...
Thomas Paine's The Rights of Man Rights of Man (1791), a book by Thomas Paine, including 31 articles, posits that popular political revolution is permissible when a government does not safeguard the natural rights of its people.
The Routledge Guidebook to Paine’s Rights of Man provides the first comprehensive and fully contextualized introduction to this foundational text in the history of modern political thought, addressing its central themes, reception, and ...
Collects several works covering a variety of political subjects, including independence from Britain for the American colonies, service in the Continental army, and the French Revolution.
THOMAS PAINE'S RIGHTS OF MAN: A Biography
British-born political activist Thomas Paine wrote the 31 essays in Rights of Man in response to Edmund Burke's Reflections on the Revolution in France, an attack on the outcomes of the French Revolution.