常识/英文原版/Common Sense

基本信息：

作者：托马斯?潘恩 (Thomas Paine)

出版社: Bantam Classics; Reprint (2004年2月3日)

外文书名: 托马斯·潘恩：常识

丛书名: Bantam Classic

简装: 112页

语种： 英语

ISBN: 0553214659

条形码: 9780553214659

商品尺寸: 10.7 x 0.8 x 17.5 cm

商品重量: 150 g

内容简介：

When Common Sense was published in January 1776, it sold, by some estimates, a stunning 150,000 copies in the colonies. What exactly made this pamphlet so appealing? This is a question not only about the state of mind of Paine's audience, but also about the role of public opinion and debate, the function of the press, and the shape of political culture in the colonies.

This Broadview edition of Paine’s famous pamphlet attempts to reconstruct the context in which it appeared and to recapture the energy and passion of the dispute over the political future of the British colonies in North America. Included along with the text of Common Sense are some of the contemporary arguments for and against the Revolution by John Dickinson, John Adams, and Thomas Jefferson; materials from the debate that followed the pamphlet's publication showing the difficulty of the choices facing the colonists; the Declaration of Independence; and the Pennsylvania Constitution of 1776.