Tom Paine's America: The Rise and Fall of Transatlantic Radicalism in the Early Republic

by Seth Cotlar

Book Overview

Tom Paine's America explores the vibrant, transatlantic traffic in people, ideas, and texts that profoundly shaped American political debate in the 1790s. In 1789, when the Federal Constitution was ratified, "democracy" was a controversial term that very few Americans used to describe their new political system. That changed when the French Revolution--and the wave of democratic radicalism that it touched off around the Atlantic World--inspired...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813931002
• ISBN13: 9780813931005
• Release Date: March 2011
• Publisher: University of Virginia Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.3" x 9.3"