Transatlantic Radicals and the Early American Republic

by Michael Durey

Book Overview

In the transatlantic world of the late eighteenth century, easterly winds blew radical thought to America.

Thomas Paine had already arrived on these shores in 1774 and made his mark as a radical pamphleteer during the Revolution. In his wake followed more than 200 other radical exiles--English Dissenters, Whigs, and Painites; Scottish "lads o'parts"; and Irish patriots--who became influential newspaper writers and editors and helped change...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0700608230
• ISBN13: 9780700608232
• Release Date: May 1997
• Publisher: University Press of Kansas
• Length: 440 Pages
• Weight: 2.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.5" x 9.6"