Thomas Paine and the French Revolution

• Κύριος συγγραφέας: Lounissi, Carine (Συγγραφέας, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Έκδοση: 1st ed. 2018.
• Θέματα: Europe-History-1492-.; France-History.; Civilization-History.; World politics.; Literature-History and criticism.; History of Early Modern Europe.; History of France.; Cultural History.; Political History.; Literary History.

This book explores Thomas Paine's French decade, from the publication of the first part of Rights of Man in the spring of 1791 to his return trip to the United States in the fall of 1802. It examines Paine's multifarious activities during this period as a thinker, writer, member of the Fre...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• 1. Introduction
• Part One : The Revolution of 1789 in Rights of Man: republican or democratic revolution?
• 2. Debating the legitimacy of the French Revolution
• 3. Narrating the French Revolution
• Part Two : Paine and the creation of the French republic (May 1791 - December 1793)
• 4. Varennes and Le Républicain
• 5. From the post-Varennes crisis to the proclamation of the French republic
• 6. Louis XVI's trial : representation vs. sovereignty
• 7. The Constitution of 1793
• 8. Paine's first "Girondin" moment?
• Part Three: Paine, critic or propagandist of the French Republic? (January 1794-September 1802)
• 9. Paine in Thermidor (November 1794-August 1795)
• 10. Paine in the Republic of the Year III (September 1795 - November 1799)
• 11. Bonaparte's France and the end of the Revolution
• 12. Conclusion
• Index.