Intellectual Origins of American Radicalism - Softcover

Lynd, Staughton

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0521134811 ISBN 13: 9780521134811

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2009

Synopsis

Now an established classic, Intellectual Origins of American Radicalism was the first book to explore this alternative current of American political thought. Stemming back to the seventeenth-century English Revolution, many questioned private property, the sovereignty of the nation-state, and slavery, and affirmed the common man's ability to govern. By the time of the American Revolution, Thomas Paine was the great exemplar of the alternative intellectual tradition. In the nineteenth century, the antislavery movement took hold of Thomas Paine's ideas and fashioned them into an ideology that ultimately justified civil war. This updated edition contains a new preface by the author, which describes the inquiries that he undertook in his books of the 1960s and their conclusions. David Waldstreicher has contributed a new historiographical essay that discusses the book's lasting importance and contrasts its ideas with the work of Bernard Bailyn and Gordon Wood.

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Book Description

Now an established classic, Intellectual Origins of American Radicalism was the first book to explore this alternative current of American political thought from the seventeenth-century English Revolution to the time of the American Revolution, when Thomas Paine was its great exemplar. This updated edition contains a new preface by the author and a new historiographical essay by David Waldstreicher.

About the Author

Staughton Lynd received his B.A. from Harvard College and his M.A. and Ph.D. from Columbia University. He taught at Spelman College and at Yale University. He is the author, editor, or co-editor of more than a dozen books and has published articles in journals including the Journal of American History, the William and Mary Quarterly, and the Political Science Quarterly.

David Waldstreicher is a Professor of History at Temple University.

About this edition

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0521134811
• ISBN 13: 9780521134811
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 222