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Record Nr.

UNINA9910829028903321

Autore

Cotlar Seth

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Charlottesville, : University of Virginia Press, 2011

ISBN

1-280-48994-4

9786613585172

0-8139-3106-1

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (284 p.)

Collana

Jeffersonian America

Disciplina

320.51092

Soggetti

Radicalism - United States - History - 18th century

United States Politics and government 1783-1809

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Imagining a Nation of Politicians: Political Printers and the Reader-Citizens of the 1790s -- 2. The Politics of Popular Cosmopolitanism -- 3. Can a Citizen of the World Be a Citizen of the United States?: The Reaction against Popular Cosmopolitanism -- 4. Conceptualizing Equality in a Commercial Society: Democratic Visions of Economic Justice -- 5. "The General Will Is Always Good . . . But by What Sign Shall We Know It?": Debating the Role of the Public in a Representative Democracy -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X.

Sommario/riassunto

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.