In the Cause of Liberty Audiobook Libro.fm

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This decidedly unusual book gives an excellent account of what its title purportsRendering fresh views not only of the poet and engraver William Blake and the radicaldemocratic pamphleteer Thomas Paine but of the entirety of that cavalcade of events encompassed under the rubric of Revolution in the 18th Centuryin America in France and in the Caribbean island known today as Haiti as well as of the reform and radical movements contemporaneous in Britain with the rise of empire and industrialism Proceedings that have had an influence on the debates on liberty and equality and sovereign authority in the ensuing two centuries that remain despite everburgeoning scholarship controversial and perplexing even elusive today