1st Edition

The Legacy of Thomas Paine in the Transatlantic World

Edited By Sam Edwards, Marcus Morris Copyright 2018
264 Pages
by Routledge

264 Pages 8 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

264 Pages 8 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

As early as 1892, Moncure Conway, the author of the first scholarly Paine biography, noted that whilst Paine’s life up to 1809 was certainly fascinating, his subsequent life – that is, his after life – was even more thrilling. Vilified by Theodore Roosevelt as a "filthy little atheist," yet employed by Ronald Reagan in his campaign to make America "great again," Paine’s words and ideas have been... Read more

Introduction: The Use and Abuse of Thomas Paine in the Transatlantic World  Sam Edwards and Marcus Morris  Part I: The Image and Idea(s) of Paine: Origins, Use and Reuse  1. The Image of Tom: Paine in Print and Portraiture  W. A. Speck  2. "I Am Made to Say What I Never Wrote": Deism, Spiritualism and Ventriloquizing Paine, c. 1790s-1850s  Patrick W. Hughes  3. All Paine: The American Mind and the Creation of the League of Nations and the U.N.  Michael Holm  4. The Distortion of Thomas Paine’s Philosophy of Government  Gary Berton  Part II: Discovering and Using Paine’s Radicalism  5. "Revolutions Are the Order of the Day": Atlantic Fragments of Thomas Paine, c. 1819-1832  Matteo Battistini  6. Posthumous Paine in the United Kingdom, 1809-1832: Jacobin or Loyalist Cult?  Matthew Roberts  7. "The Neglect of Paine Seems Particularly Strange at the Present Political Juncture": Explaining British Socialists’ Relationship to Paine, c. 1884-1914  Marcus Morris  8. Citizens of the World: Paine and the Political Prisoners Transported to Australia  Tony Moore  Part III: Remembering and Remaking Paine  9. Common Sense on the Lower East Side: Thomas Paine and the Era of Immigration, c. 1900-1950  Louis Mazzari  10. "A Monument in Every City?": Thomas Paine in Memoriam  Theodore Marotta  11. "He Came from America Didn’t He?": The Thetford Statue Controversy and the Problem of Paine in Transatlantic Memory, c. 1909-1970  Sam Edwards  Afterword: The Struggle for Paine’s Memory and the Making of American Democracy  Harvey J. Kaye

Biography

Sam Edwards is Senior Lecturer in American History at Manchester Metropolitan University.



Marcus Morris is Lecturer in Modern European History at Manchester Metropolitan University.