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This volume brings together more than 100 selections of works from the 18th century, including examples from Kant, Diderot, Newton and Locke. They demonstrate the impact of Enlightenment views on philosophy and epistemology as well as on political, social and economic institution ...
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Published anonymously in 1776 - the year of the American Declaration of Independence - Paine's Common Sense became an immediate bestseller. More than any other factor, it was this pamphlet which sparked off the movement that established the independence of the United States.
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Written at a time when furious arguments are raging about the best way to govern America, this title aims of persuading New Yorkers to accept the newly drafted Constitution in 1787. It makes a case for power-sharing between State and Federal authorities and for a Constitution tha ...
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Presents selections from Paine's political writings, including Common Sense, The Rights of Man, The American Crisis, and The Age of Reason .
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In 1831 Tocqueville set out from post-revolutionary France on a journey across America that would take him nine months and cover 7000 miles. The result was Democracy in America , a subtle and prescient analysis of the life and institutions of 19th-century America.
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A ringing rebuke to the religious right's attempts, fuelled by misguided and inaccurate interpretations of American history, to dismantle the wall between church and state erected by the country's founders.
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Graduates of Cornell University have achieved success in areas from literature and photography to economices and athletics. The authors of this book sifted through encyclopaedias, archives and alumni records to arrive at a group of 100 men and women representative in their distin ...
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Statesman and author, Edmund Burke was sympathetic to the American colonies and the Irish Catholics, but a fervent enemy of the French Revolution. This anthology presents selections from Burke's writings and speeches, including the celebrated Reflections on the French Revolution ...
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