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COMMON SENSE IBD

LES PRAIRIES NUMéRIQUES
09 / 2020
9782491251833
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Sinopsis

Common Senseáis aápamphletáwritten byáThomas Paineáin 1775-1776 advocating independence fromáGreat Britaináto people in theáThirteen Colonies. Writing in clear and persuasive prose, Paine marshaled moral and political arguments to encourage common people in the Colonies to fight foráegalitarianágovernment. It was published anonymously on January 10, 1776, at the beginning of theáAmerican Revolution, and became an immediate sensation.It was sold and distributed widely and read aloud at taverns and meeting places. In proportion to the population of the colonies at that time (2.5 million), it had the largest sale and circulation of any book published in American history. As of 2006, it remains the all-time best-selling American title and is still in print today.Common Senseámade public a persuasive and impassioned case for independence, which had not yet been given serious intellectual consideration. Paine connected independence with common dissenting Protestant beliefs as a means to present a distinctly American political identity and structuredáCommon Senseáas if it were a sermon.áHistorianáGordon S. WoodádescribedáCommon Senseáas 'the most incendiary and popular pamphlet of the entire revolutionary era.'The text was translated into French byáAntoine Gilbert Griffet de Labaumeáin 1790.

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