Thomas Paine - Böcker

Människans rättigheter placerar läsaren mitt i den brinnande tidsanda som drev folk till uppror mot despoter och förtryck. Samtidigt är den ett tidlöst manifest för demokrati och mänskliga rättigheter. Regeringar, skriver Paine, är medborgarnas tj...

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Paine's years of study and reflection on the role of religion in society culminated with this, his final work. An attack on revealed religion from the deist point of view - embodied by Paine's credo, "I believe in one God, and no more" - its criti...

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One of Paine's greatest and most widely read works, considered a classic statement of faith in democracy and egalitarianism, defends the early events of the French Revolution, supports social security for workers, public employment for those in ne...

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One of the great classics on democracy, Rights of Man was published in England in 1791 as a vindication of the French Revolution and a critique of the British system of government. In direct, forceful prose, Paine defends popular rights, national ...

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Draws principles of fundamental human rights.

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This major collection demonstrates the extent to which Thomas Paine (1737-1809) was an inspiration to the Americans in their struggle for independence, a passionate supporter of the French Revolution and perhaps the outstanding English radical wri...

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Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselves - and each other. They have inspired debate, dissent, war and revolution. They have enlightened, outraged, provoked and comforted. They have enri...

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Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselves - and each other. They have inspired debate, dissent, war and revolution. They have enlightened, outraged, provoked and comforted. They have enri...

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One of the great classics on democracy, Rights of Man was published in England in 1791 as a vindication of the French Revolution and a critique of the British system of government. In direct, forceful prose, Paine defends popular rights, national ...

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This major collection demonstrates the extent to which Thomas Paine (1737-1809) was an inspiration to the Americans in their struggle for independence, a passionate supporter of the French Revolution and perhaps the outstanding English radical wri...

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`An army of principles will penetrate where an army of soldiers cannot . . . it will march on the horizon of the world and it will conquer.'Thomas Paine was the first international revolutionary. His Common Sense (1776) was the most widely read pa...

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`An army of principles will penetrate where an army of soldiers cannot . . . it will march on the horizon of the world and it will conquer.'Thomas Paine was the first international revolutionary. His Common Sense (1776) was the most widely read pa...

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`An army of principles will penetrate where an army of soldiers cannot . . . it will march on the horizon of the world and it will conquer.' Thomas Paine was the first international revolutionary. His Common Sense (1776) was the most widely read p...

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Thomas Paine was the spark that ignited the American Revolution. More than just a Founding Father, he was a verbal bomb-thrower, a rationalist, and a rebel. In his influential pamphlets Common Sense and The American Crisis, Paine codified both col...

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This classic on space travel was first published in 1953, when interplanetary space flight was considered science fiction by most of those who considered it at all. Here the German-born scientist Wernher von Braun detailed what he believed were th...

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A central figure in Western history and American political thought, Thomas Paine continues to provoke debate among politicians, activists, and scholars.¿ People of all ideological stripes are inspired by his trenchant defense of the rights and goo...

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A central figure in Western history and American political thought, Thomas Paine continues to provoke debate among politicians, activists, and scholars.A People of all ideological stripes are inspired by his trenchant defense of the rights and goo...

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Thomas Paine's loyalties were with universal and self-evident principles rather than with a particular group or nation, and it is this dimension that informed his most important works. This Norton Critical Edition shows how Paine's fury at the Bri...

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It is the story of two young people, Trace Meadows, and Sayaka Mura, who are both lacking in experience and who are both terribly unsure of themselves; but, through chance find themselves in a desperate struggle to stop an ancient evil magic; on a...

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Highly influential landmark document clearly and persuasively argued for American separation from Britain and paved the way for the Declaration of Independence.

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For this revised and updated edition of Paine's writings the distinguished intellectual historian Bruce Kuklick brings together an expanded collection of the classic texts. A brief chronology, updated bibliography, and a succinct and lucid introdu...

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In 1776, America was a hotbed of enlightenment and revolution. Thomas Paine not only spurred his fellow Americans to action but soon came to symbolize the spirit of the Revolution. His elegantly persuasive pieces spoke to the hearts and minds of t...

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"In Common Sense a writer found his moment to change the world," Alan Taylor writes in his introduction. When Paine's attack on the British mixed constitution of kings, lords, and commons was published in January 1776, fighting had already erupted...

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