Humanities & Social Sciences
Description
Published anonymously in 1776, six months before the Declaration of Independence, Thomas Paine’s Common Sense was a radical and impassioned call for America to free itself from British rule and set up an independent republican government.
Savagely attacking hereditary kingship and aristocratic institutions, Paine urged a new beginning for his adopted country in which personal freedom and social equality would be upheld and economic and cultural progress encouraged.
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Author Biography
Thomas Paine was an English-American political activist, author, political theorist and revolutionary. As the author of two highly influential pamphlets at the start of the American Revolution, he inspired the Patriots in 1776 to declare independence from Britain. His ideas reflected Enlightenment-era rhetoric of transnational human rights. He has been called "a corset maker by trade, a journalist by profession, and a propagandist by inclination".
Bibliographic Information
- Publisher Example Books
- Publication Date November 1904
- Orginal LanguageEnglish
- ISBN/Identifier 9780143036258
- Publication Country or regionUnited Kingdom
- FormatPaperback
- Primary Price 15.99 GBP
- Pages104
- ReadershipGeneral
- Publish StatusPublished
- Copyright Year1776
- Dimensions17.5x26 cm
