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Common sense : a political history /

Common sense has always been a cornerstone of American politics. In 1776, Tom Paine's vital pamphlet with that title sparked the American Revolution. And today, common sense--the wisdom of ordinary people, knowledge so self-evident that it is beyond debate--remains a powerful political ideal, u...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Rosenfeld, Sophia A. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2011.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The ghost of common sense: London, 1688-1739
  • Everyman's perception of the world: Aberdeen, 1758-1770
  • The radical uses of bon sens: Amsterdam, 1760-1775
  • Building a common sense republic: Philadelphia, 1776
  • Making war on revolutionary reason: Paris, 1790-1792
  • Konigsberg to New York: the fate of common sense in the modern world.