Selected writings of Thomas Paine / edited by Ian Shapiro and Jane E. Calvert ; with an introduction by Ian Shapiro ; with essays by J. C. D. Clark, Jane E. Calvert, Eileen Hunt Botting.

Author: Paine, Thomas, 1737-1809, author.

ImprintNew Haven [Connecticut] : Yale University Press, [2014]

Descriptionxxxiv, 676 pages ; 22 cm.

Note:Introduction: Thomas Paine, America's First Public Intellectual / Ian Shapiro -- Texts -- Thoughts on Defensive War (1775) -- Common Sense; Addressed to the Inhabitants of America, on the Following Interesting Subjects (1776) -- [Selections from] The Crisis: In Thirteen Numbers. Written During the Late War (1792) -- To the People of America [A Supernumerary Crisis] (1783) -- Dissertations on Government, the Affairs of the Bank, and Paper-Money (1786) -- Rights of Man: Being an Answer to Mr. Burke's Attack on the French Revolution (1791) -- Rights of Man. Part the Second. Combining Principle and Practice (1792) -- Reasons for Wishing to Preserve the Life of Louis Capet. As Delivered to the National Convention (1793) -- The Age of Reason, Being an Investigation of True and Fabulous Theology (1794) -- The Age of Reason, Part the Second. Being an Investigation of True and of Fabulous Theology (1795) -- Dissertation on First-Principles of Government (1795) -- Letter to George Washington, President of the United States of America. On Affairs Public and Private (1796) -- Agrarian Justice, Opposed to Agrarian Law, and to Agrarian Monopoly (1797) -- Of the Religion of Deism Compared with the Christian Religion, and the Superiority of the Former over the Latter (1804) -- Of the Term "Liberty of the Press" (1806) -- Essays -- Thomas Paine: The English Dimension / J.C.D. Clark -- Thomas Paine, Quakerism, and the Limits of Religious Liberty during the American Revolution / Jane E. Calvert -- Thomas Paine amidst the Early Feminists / Eileen Hunt Botting.

Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references and index.

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