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Winner of the 2012 James Broussard Award for Best First Book from the Society for Historians of the Early American Republic 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 a growing number of Americans to imagine and advocate for a wide range of political and social reforms that they proudly called "democratic."One of the figureheads of this new international movement was Tom Paine, the author of Common Sense. Although Paine spent the 1790s in Europe, his increasingly radical political writings from that decade were wildly popular in America. A cohort of democratic printers, newspaper editors, and booksellers stoked the fires of American politics by importing a flood of information and ideas from revolutionary Europe. Inspired by what they were learning from their contemporaries around the world, the evolving democratic opposition in America pushed their fellow citizens to consider a wide range of radical ideas regarding racial equality, economic justice, cosmopolitan conceptions of citizenship, and the construction of more literally democratic polities.In Europe such ideas quickly fell victim to a counter-Revolutionary backlash that defined Painite democracy as dangerous Jacobinism, and the story was much the same in America's late 1790s. The Democratic Party that won the national election of 1800 was, ironically, the beneficiary of this backlash; for they were able to position themselves as the advocates of a more moderate, safe vision of democracy that differentiated itself from the supposedly aristocratic Federalists to their right and the dangerously democratic Painite Jacobins to their left. (-- Rosemarie Zagarri, George Mason University, author of Revolutionary Backlash: Women and Politics in the Early American Republic )

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9780813931005 | Univ of Virginia Pr, March 31, 2011, cover price $39.50 | About this edition: Winner of the 2012 James Broussard Award for Best First Book from the Society for Historians of the Early American Republic Tom Paine's America explores the vibrant, transatlantic traffic in people, ideas, and texts that profoundly shaped American political debate in the 1790s.

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9780813936499 | Reprint edition (Univ of Virginia Pr, September 8, 2014), cover price $22.50

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Product Description: Among the thousands of political refugees who flooded into the United States during the late-eighteenth and early-nineteenth centuries, none had a greater impact on the early republic than the United Irishmen. They were, according to one Federalist, "the most God-provoking Democrats on this side of Hell...read more

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9780801431753 | Cornell Univ Pr, May 1, 1998, cover price $51.95 | About this edition: Among the thousands of political refugees who flooded into the United States during the late-eighteenth and early-nineteenth centuries, none had a greater impact on the early republic than the United Irishmen.

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9780801477591 | Cornell Univ Pr, September 1, 2011, cover price $28.95 | About this edition: Among the thousands of political refugees who flooded into the United States during the late-eighteenth and early-nineteenth centuries, none had a greater impact on the early republic than the United Irishmen.

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Product Description: With the publication of Liberty Tree, acclaimed historian Alfred F. Young presents a selection of his seminal writing as well as two provocative, never-before-published essays. Together, they take the reader on a journey through the American Revolution, exploring the role played by ordinary women and men (called, at the time, people out of doors) in shaping events during and after the Revolution, their impact on the Founding generation of the new American nation, and finally how this populist side of the Revolution has fared in public memory...read more

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9780814796863 | New York Univ Pr, November 6, 2006, cover price $27.00 | About this edition: With the publication of Liberty Tree, acclaimed historian Alfred F.

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An exploration of the ideas and radical sentiments that prompted the American Revolution cites uprisings within every facet of American society, arguing that the war was a people's revolution and civil war, as well as an insurrection against colonial control. By the author of Red, White, and Black. Reprint. 25,000 first printing.

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9780143037200 | Reprint edition (Penguin USA, May 30, 2006), cover price $18.00 | About this edition: An exploration of the ideas and radical sentiments that prompted the American Revolution argues that the war was a people's revolution and civil war, as well as an insurrection against colonial control.

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An exploration of the ideas and radical sentiments that prompted the American Revolution cites uprisings within every facet of American society, arguing that the war was a people's revolution and civil war, as well as an insurrection against colonial control. By the author of Red, White, and Black. 35,000 first printing.

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9780670034208 | Viking Pr, June 23, 2005, cover price $27.95 | About this edition: An exploration of the ideas and radical sentiments that prompted the American Revolution argues that the war was a people's revolution and civil war, as well as an insurrection against colonial control.

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A critical biography of the Revolutionary pamphleteer, exploring the origins, expression, and impact of his ideas and the place of his radical ideology in the eighteenth-century world

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9780195174861 | Updated edition (Oxford Univ Pr, November 19, 2004), cover price $71.50

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9780195174854 | Updated edition (Oxford Univ Pr, September 30, 2004), cover price $29.95
9780195021820 | Oxford Univ Pr, February 1, 1977, cover price $27.95 | About this edition: A critical biography of the Revolutionary pamphleteer, exploring the origins, expression, and impact of his ideas and the place of his radical ideology in the eighteenth-century world

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Examines colonial society and the transformations in colonial life that resulted from the republican tendencies brought to the surface by the Revolution

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9780679404934 | 1 edition (Alfred a Knopf Inc, January 1, 1992), cover price $30.00 | About this edition: Examines colonial society and the transformations in colonial life that resulted from the republican tendencies brought to the surface by the Revolution

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9780679736882, titled "Radicalism of the American Revolution" | Reprint edition (Vintage Books, March 1, 1993), cover price $17.95 | About this edition: Examines colonial society and the transformations in colonial life that resulted from the republican tendencies brought to the surface by the Revolution

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