Common Sense - With Whole Appendix: The Address to Quakers: Also, Large Additions

Informationen zum Autor Thomas Paine was an English-born American political activist, philosopher, political theorist, and revolutionary who lived from February 9, 1737, to June 8, 1809. He wrote The American Crisis (1776-1783) and Common Sense (1776-1783), two of the most important pamphlets at the outset of the American Revolution. He also contributed to the Patriots' 1776 decision to declare their hitherto unpopular goal of independence from Great Britain. His opinions were consistent with Enlightenment values for universal human rights. In an era before compulsory schooling, he attended Thetford Grammar School (1744-1749). He became his father's apprentice when he was 13 years old. After finishing his apprenticeship, Paine enlisted at the age of 19 and served for a short time as a privateer before returning to Britain in 1759. He opened a store in Sandwich, Kent, after becoming a master staymaker there. Paine traveled from France to the United States in 1802, or maybe 1803, paying for the passage of Marguerite Brazier, the wife of Thomas Bonneville, as well as the couple's three boys, Benjamin, Louis, and Thomas, for whom Paine served as godfather. In the early years of the Second Great Awakening, a period of intense political partisanship, Paine returned to the United States. Klappentext First published in 1776, this pamphlet by British political radical Thomas Paine (1737-1809) outlined his ideas for American independence. Zusammenfassung Published anonymously in 1776, this pamphlet by the British radical Thomas Paine (1737–1809) laid out his ideas for American independence, and earned him the title of 'Father of the American Revolution'. Over half a million copies of this highly influential document were sold in America in its first year. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction; Common Sense; Additions to Common Sense; Appendix to Common Sense; A dialogue between the ghost of General Montgomery, and an American delegate.

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• Authors: Thomas Paine
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 10.11.2011
• EAN: 9781108035194
• ISBN: 978-1-108-03519-4
• No. of pages: 178
• Series: Cambridge Library Collection -; Cambridge Library Collection - Philosophy
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Essays, feuilletons, literary criticism, interviews; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; Essays, Political Ideologies, PHILOSOPHY / Social, PHILOSOPHY / Political, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory, PHILOSOPHY / Essays, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Essays, Social & political philosophy, Political science & theory, social and political philosophy, Literary essays, Political science and theory, Political ideologies and movements