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J.C.D. Clark demythologizes the history of Thomas Paine, understanding the impact he has had on modern human rights, democracy, and internationalism.

A revisionist, demythologized history of Thomas Paine, England's greatest revolutionary~Offers a brand new account of the 'age of revolution', and of the alleged political implementation of 'the Enlightenment'~Provides a new interpretation of the American and French Revolutions~Explains how the politics of the eighteenth century (Enlightenment, natural rights) related to those of the nineteenth (utilitarianism, socialism)~Takes intellectual co...

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An analysis of the life and thought of the writer Samuel Johnson from an historian's viewpoint.

The first analysis of the life and thought of the writer Samuel Johnson from an historian's viewpoint.

This is a revised and extensively rewritten edition of a work first published in 1985 as English Society 1688 1832. That book arrived at the opening of a new phase in English historiography, which questioned much of the received picture of English society as secular, modernising, contractarian, and middle class, it began the recovery of the 'long eighteenth century', the period which saw a form of state defined by the close relationship of mon...

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A standard edition of a classic text, here compared with Waldegrave's speeches and other writings.

It is often assumed that Sir Lewis Namier and Sir Herbert Butterfield demolished the 'Whig interpretation of history'. In fact, much was allowed to remain standing by their failure to offer a new synthesis of English party politics. In this book Dr Clark provides the key component for such a new synthesis by a detailed exposition of the crisis of the 1750s, which was instrumental in the destruction of the party system and the emergence of new ...

An important revisionary study which creates a new framework for Anglo-American relations before, during and after the War of Independence.