Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contributors v
3. Contents vii
4. Acknowledgments ix
5. Introduction. Thomas Paine, America’s First Public Intellectual xi
6. Note on the Texts xxxv
7. Texts
8. Thoughts on Defensive War (1775) 1
9. Common Sense; Addressed to the Inhabitants of America, on the Following Interesting Subjects (1776) 6
10. [Selections from] The Crisis: In Thirteen Numbers. Written During the Late War (1792) 53
11. To the People of America [A Supernumerary Crisis] (1783) 124
12. Dissertations on Government, the Affairs of the Bank, and Paper-Money (1786) 128
13. Rights of Man: Being an Answer to Mr. Burke’s Attack on the French Revolution (1791) 172
14. Rights of Man. Part the Second. Combining Principle and Practice (1792) 262
15. Reasons for Wishing to Preserve the Life of Louis Capet. As Delivered to the National Convention (1793) 366
16. The Age of Reason, Being an Investigation of True and Fabulous Theology (1794) 372
17. The Age of Reason, Part the Second. Being an Investigation of True and of Fabulous Theology (1795) 418
18. Dissertation on First-Principles of Government (1795) 503
19. Letter to George Washington, President of the United States of America. On Affairs Public and Private (1796) 521
20. Agrarian Justice, Opposed to Agrarian Law, and to Agrarian Monopoly (1797) 552
21. Of the Religion of Deism Compared with the Christian Religion, and the Superiority of the Former over the Latter (1804) 568
22. Of the Term “Liberty of the Press” (1806) 575
23. Essays
24. Thomas Paine: The English Dimension 579
25. Thomas Paine, Quakerism, and the Limits of Religious Liberty during the American Revolution 602
26. Thomas Paine amidst the Early Feminists 630
27. Index 655
28. Rethinking the Western Tradition 677