Common Sense
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...
Rights of Man
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 ...
Common Sense
This famous pamphlet - published anonymously in 1776 because of its seditious content - by the British political radical Thomas Paine (1737-1809) laid out his pioneering ideas for American independence, and earned him the title of 'Father of the A...
Rights of Man
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...
Rights of Man and Common Sense
Published to commemorate the bicentennial of Thomas Paine's death, these texts have remained two of the most influential arguments for liberty in political thought. Common Sense is a pamphlet that Paine wrote in support of American independence. D...
Common Sense, The Rights of Man, The Age of Reason (Complete and Unabridged)
Common Sense, The Rights of Man, The Age of Reason (Complete and Unabridged)
Age of Reason
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" -...
Rights of Man, Common Sense, and Other Political Writings
`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...
Paine: Political Writings
Thomas Paine was arguably the single most influential political writer in the English-speaking world during the great upheavals of the American and French Revolutions. His writings here reappear in the acclaimed Cambridge Texts series. For this re...
Thomas Paine Reader
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...
Människans Rättigheter
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 tjänare, inte deras herrar.Jag tröttnar aldrig på att läsa Tom Paine (Abraham Lincoln)Om författarenThomas Paine (1737-1809), växte upp i England men deltog i och försvarade revolutionerna i Amerika 1776 och i Frankrike 1789. Den revolutionära tanke som Paine främst förfäktade var idén om människans rättigheter, att varje människa hade en rätt till frihet, egendom, tro och association att hävda gentemot stat och överhet.Om Timbro förlags klassikerserieTimbro förlag har sedan starten 1978 ett särskilt uppdrag att tillgängliggöra liberalismens klassiker på svenska. I serien finns sedan tidigare bland andra Nobelpristagarna F A Hayek, James Buchanan och Milton Friedman, filosofen Robert Nozick, idéhistorikern Isaiah Berlin och statsvetaren Judith N Shklar.
The American Crisis
The American Crisis
Common Sense
The revolutionary pamphlet that helped light the fire of American Independence in an elegant hardback gift edition. Thomas Paine arrived in America from England in 1774. A friend of Benjamin Franklin, he was a writer of poetry and tracts condemning the slave trade. In 1775, as hostilities between Britain and the colonies intensified, Paine wrote Common Sense to encourage the colonies to break the British exploitative hold and fight for independence. The little booklet of 50 pages was published January 10, 1776 and sold a half-million copies, approximately equal to 75 million copies today.
The Age of Reason
The Age of Reason
Common Sense
Common Sense
The Age of Reason
The Age of Reason
Common Sense
Common Sense
The Rights Of Man And Common Sense
Tom Paine is celebrated for the part he played in both the American and French Revolutions. Though an Englishman by birth, he reacted violently against the political order of eighteenth-century England and in favour of radical reform. So well thought of was he outside Great Britain that he became a distinguished public figure in both France and the United States. RIGHTS OF MAN and COMMON SENSE are the two short books in which he elaborates his political and social theories in vivid, simple prose which can still be read with pleasure and excitement today. These are among the foundling texts of the radical tradition in America and Western Europe.
