Common sense : with the whole appendix : the address to the Quakers : also, the large additions

Author(s)

• Paine, Thomas

Bibliographic Information

Common sense : with the whole appendix : the address to the Quakers : also, the large additions

Thomas Paine

（Cambridge library collection, . History）

Cambridge University Press, 2011

• : pbk

Other Title

Common sense : with the whole appendix : the address to the Quakers : also, the Large additions, and A dialogue between the ghost of General Montgomery, just arrived from the Elysian fields and an American delegate in a wood, near Philadelphia, on the grand subject of American independancy

Note

Reprint. Originally published: Philadelphia : Printed, and sold, by R. Bell, 1776

Original title: Common sense : with the whole appendix : the address to the Quakers : also, the Large additions, and A dialogue between the ghost of General Montgomery, just arrived from the Elysian fields and an American delegate in a wood, near Philadelphia, on the grand subject of American independancy

Description and Table of Contents

Description

This famous pamphlet - published anonymously in 1776 because of its seditious content - by the British political radical Thomas Paine (1737-1809) laid out his pioneering ideas for American independence, and earned him the title of 'Father of the American Revolution'. The Declaration of Independence, written chiefly by Thomas Jefferson and famously promulgated later that year, was influenced by Paine's arguments in this work: that America was too large to be governed by a country as small as Britain - which, he claimed, was ruling America only for its own financial gain - and that the colonies had now achieved the financial and military capacity to break free. Criticising the British monarchical system, with a single figure at its pinnacle, Paine called instead for a government that promoted security, liberty and equality for its people. Over half a million copies of this highly influential document were sold in America in its first year.

Table of Contents

• Introduction
• Common Sense
• Additions to Common Sense
• Appendix to Common Sense
• A dialogue between the ghost of General Montgomery, and an American delegate.

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Details

• NCID: BC06175887
• ISBN:
  • 9781108035194
• Country Code: uk
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Cambridge
• Pages/Volumes: 147, 16 p.
• Size: 22 cm
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BB00083053