Tom Paine's America : the rise and fall of transatlantic radicalism in the early republic / Seth Cotlar.

Author: Cotlar, Seth.

Imprint:Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2011.

Descriptionxii, 269 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Note:Imagining a nation of politicians: political printers and the reader-citizens of the 1790s -- The politics of popular cosmopolitanism -- Can a citizen of the world be a citizen of the United States?: the reaction against popular cosmopolitanism -- Conceptualizing equality in a commercial society: democratic visions of economic justice -- "The general will is always good...but by what sign shall we know it?": debating the role of the public in a representative democracy.

Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references (p. 251-264) and index.

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