Compiled by Michael T. Davis, The University of Queensland

In compiling a bibliography of writings on Thomas Paine, one is confronted with the problem of not where to begin, but where to stop. The words of John Adams certainly remain true to this day: “I know not whether any Man in the World has more influence on its inhabitants or affairs…than Tom Paine.” He is undoubtedly one of the greatest and most influential political philosophers and humanitarians of history. His enigmatic character, his pervasive and persuasive writings and his lifelong struggle in the battle for universal liberty and equality make him one of the most accessible, interesting and popular subjects for scholars, both past and present. 

This bibliography covers the years 1975 to 1993, thereby encompassing those works inspired by the bicentenary of American Independence and the French Revolution, as well as providing access and a checklist to the most recent writings on Paine. Several other bibliographies have covered earlier periods, including one which appeared in the Bulletin of the Thomas Paine Society in 1976.* In order to contain the length of this bibliography, however, it has been necessary to exclude certain works, including compilations and reprints of Paine’s writings, even though many contain substantial introductions discussing Paine’s life and ideology with one exception, The Thomas Paine Reader. Furthermore, Paine becomes inextricably entwined in publications dealing with subjects like American and British radicalism, political theory, popular culture and biographies of Paine’s contemporaries, especially Edmund Burke. It has been necessary to exclude those works that do not deal exclusively with the subject of Paine or his writings. Hence, even though Paineite ideology forms the backdrop for works like Iain McCalman’s, Radical Underworld, David Worrall’s, Radical Culture and Jon Mee’s discussion of William Blake and the 1790s in his, Dangerous Enthusiasm, it has been necessary to omit such publications.

NOTES

A.O. Alridge, “Thomas Paine: A Survey of Research and Criticism Since 1945” TPS, 5(3), 1976: 5-19 (also in, British Studies Monitor, 5, 1974: 3-29; Richard Gimbel, Thomas Paine. A Bibliographical Checklist of `Common Sense. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1956); Jerome Wilson, “Thomas Paine in the Twentieth Century: His Reputation in America, 1900-1976, and an Annotated Bibliography, 1900-1970” Ph.D. Auburn University, 1972, and Jerome Wilson, “Thomas Paine in America: An Annotated Bibliography 1900-1973.” Bulletin of Bibliography, 31, 1974: 133-51, 180. 

Individual articles in compilation volumes on Paine are not listed separately. Abbreviations used: B.S.S.L.H. – Bulletin of the Society for the Study of Labour History, P.M.H.B. – Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, T.P.S. – Bulletin by the Thomas Paine Society. 

BIBLIOGRAPHY:

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• Aldridge, A.O. “The Influence of New York Newspapers on Paine’s Common Sense.” New York Historical Society Quarterly, 60, 1976: 53-60.
• “Paine and Dickinson.” Early American Literature, 11, 1976: 125-38.
• “Thomas Paine and the Ideologues. Studies on Voltaire and the Eighteenth Century, 151, 1976
• “The Problem of Thomas Paine.” Studies in Burke and His Time, 19, 1978: 12743. 
• Thomas Paine’s American Ideology. Cranbury: University of Delaware Press, 1984.
• “Condorcet, Paine and Historical Method in, L.C. Rosenfield (ed.), Condorcet Studies, New Jersey: Humanities, 1984: 40-60.
• Alves, Helio O. “The Painites. The Influence of Thomas Paine in Four Provincial Towns: 1791-1799”. Braga: University of Minho, 1982.
• “A propriedade agraria no pensamento politico de Thomas Paine.” Vertice, 436, 1984: 35-48.
• Andrews, Stuart. “Paine’s American Pamphlets.” History Today, 31. 1981: 7-11.
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• Ayer, A.J. “Thomas Paine”. London: Faber and Faber, 1989.
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• Claeys, Gregory. “Thomas Paine: Social and Political Thought”. Boston: Unwin Hyman, 1989.
• “Paine’s Agrarian Justice (1796) and the Secularisation of Natural Jurisprudence.” B.S.S.L.H., 52, 1987: 21-31.
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• “Local Attachments, National Identities and World Citizenship in the Thought of Thomas Paine.” History Workshop: A Journal of Socialist and Feminist Historians, 35, 1993: 117-35.
• Ellis, Richard E. “What is the Significance of Tom Paine for the American Revolution?” Reviews in American History, 6, 1978: 190-95.
• Essick, R.N. “William Blake, Thomas Paine and the Biblical Revolution.” Studies in Romanticism, 30, 1991: 189-212.
• Fast, Howard. “Citizen Tom Paine” New York: Grove Press, 1987.
• Findlay, Arthur. “Thomas Paine 1736-1809, The Most Valuable Englishman Ever”. Bristol: Michael Roll, 1993.
• Foner, Eric. “Tom Paine and Revolutionary America”. Oxford: OUP, 1976.
• “Tom Paine’s Republic: Radical Ideology and Social Change” in, Alfred F. Young (ed.), The American Revolution: Explorations in the History of American Radicalism. Dekalb: Northern Illinois University Press, 1976: 187-232. 
• “Thomas Paine and the American Radical Tradition.” TRS; 7, 1981: 5-11.
• Foot, Michael. and Kramnick, Isaac. “Thomas Paine Reader”. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1987.
• Fruchtman, J. “The Revolutionary Millennialism of Thomas Paine.” Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture, 13. 1984: 65-77.
• “Nature and Revolution in Paine’s Common-sense.” History of Political Thought, 10, 1989: 421-38.
• “Thomas Paine and the Religion of Nature” Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1993.
• Fuchs, Michel. “Philosophic Politique et Droits de Phomme chez Burke et Paine.” Bulletin de la Société d’Etudes Anglo-Americaines des XVII et XVIII Siecles, 27, 1988: 49-63.
• Fulcher, J.R. “Common Sense vs Plain Truth: Political Propaganda and Civil Society.” Southern Quarterly, 15, 1976: 57-74.
• Furniss, Tom. “Rhetoric in Revolution: The Role of Language in Paine’s Critique of Burke” in, Keith Hanley and Raman Selden (eds.), Revolution and English Romanticism: Politics and Rhetoric. Hemel Hempstead: Harvester Wheatsheaf, 1990: 23-48. 
• Gadberry, G.W. “Dramatic Contraries: The Paine Histories of Hanns Johst and Howard Fast” in, K.Hartigar (ed.), Text and Presentation. Maryland, University Press of America, 1989: 61-72.
• Galliani, R. “Le Duc de la Rochefoucauld et Thomas Paine.” Annales History de la Révolution Française 52, 1980: 425-36.
• Gobetti, Daniela. ‘Una Generosa Costituzione’: Societa & Politica Negli Scritti di Thomas Paine.” Pensiero Politics (Italy), 16, 1983: 83-103.
• Godwin, Chad. “Thomas Paine, 1737-1809”. Norwich: Norfolk Museums Service, 1986. Greene, J.P. “Paine, America and the ‘Modernization’ of Political Consciousness.” Political Science Quarterly, 93, 1978: 73-92.
• Gregg, Ken. “Thomas Paine and the Rise of Atheism.” The American Rationalist, 5, 1987: 68-72.
• Harrison, J.L. “Thomas Paine: Eighteenth-Century Feminist.” Social Studies, 69, 1978: 103-7.
• Harrison, J.F.C. “Thomas Paine and Millenarian Radicalism.” Paper at History Workshop, Religion and Science Conference, 7-9 July, 1983.
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• Herrick, Jim. “Thomas Paine’s 250th Anniversary.” New Humanist, 102, 1987: 12-13.
• Hindmarsh, G. “Thomas Paine and the Methodist Influence.” TPS, 6, 1979: 59-78. 
• “Thomas Paine and the Myth of Magna Carta.” TPS, 7, 1982: 29-52.
• Hopkins, J.G.E. “Thomas Paine: A Brief Biography.” In Thomas Paine: The 250th Anniversary of His Birth, January 29, 1737 January 29, 1987. New Rochelle: The Thomas Paine National Historical Association, 1987.
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• Jarrell, Willoughby. “Thomas Paine’s Common Sense and the English Tradition of Radical Dissent: The Cato Letters.” Journal of Radical History, 1. 1983: 3-13.
• Jones, Stanley. “Three Notes on Howe’s Edition of Hazlitt, Paine, Pearson and Campbell.” Notes and Queries, June 1983: 230-32.
• Kalloudis, Ann. “Some of the Letters Paine Wrote to Jefferson during 1788-89 Concerning the Iron Bridge.” TPS, 1, 1990: 13-16.
• Kashatus, W.C. “Thomas Paine: A Quaker Revolutionary.” Quaker History, 73, 1984: 38-61.
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• “Thomas Paine: American Founder and Political Scientist.” Biography, 8, 1985: 51-67.
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• Kramnick, Isaac. “Tommy Paine and the Idea of America” in, Paul J. Korshin (ed.), The American Revolution and Eighteenth-Century Culture. New York: AMS Press, 1986: 75-91.
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• Libiszowska, Zofia. “Radykalizacja Pogladow Tomasza Paine.” Acta Universitatis Lodziensis, 1, 1978: 89-110. 
• “Thomas Paine et la Gironde.” Acta Universitatis Lodziensis, 1, 1980: 87-105.
• Miller, S.T. “The Second Iron Bridge.” `IPS, 5, 1975: 5-11.
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• “Thomas Paine: An Illustrious Ex-Exciseman.” Customs and Excise Journal 2: 1987: 25-26.
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• “Science and Thomas Paine.” Journal of Radical History, 2, 1986: 37-45. 
• “The First Canadian Edition of The Age of Reason?” Lifethought History, 4, 1992: Unpaginated. Reprinted with revisions in TPS. 2. 2. 1993: 18-20.
• Mortlock, D.P. “The Thomas Paine Collection at Thetford: An Analytical Catalogue”. Norwich: Norfolk County Council, 1979.
• Newman, Stephen. “A Note on Common Sense and Christian Eschatology.” Political Theory, 6, 1978: 101-08.
• Norman, C.J. “The American Crisis by Thomas Paine: A Rhetorical Analysis.” Ph.D., Lehigh University, 1988.
• Patan, Federico. “El Paine Revolucionario (1776) de Howard Fast.” Annuario I-hsloria (Mexico), 9, 1977: 81-88.
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• Philp, Mark. “Paine”. Oxford: OUP, 1989.
• Popkin, Richard. “The Age of Reason Versus The Age of Revelation: Two Critics of Tom Paine: David Levi and Elias Boudinot” in, J.A.Lemay (ed.), Deism, Masonry and the Enlightenment. Newark: University of Delaware Press, 1987: 158-70.
• Powell, David. “Tom Paine. The Greatest Exile”. London: Croom Helm, 1985.
• Putz, Manfred. “A Concordance to Thomas Paine’s ‘Common Sense’ and ‘The American Crisis'”. London: Garland, 1989.
• Riggs, David E. “Thomas Paine’s Crisis and Trying Times in the Trenton Campaign.” By Valor and Arms, 2, 1976: 3-12.
• Robbins, Caroline. “Citizen Tom Paine.” Reviews in American History, 3, 1975 65-70. 
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• Rosenburg, Alan. “Thomas Paine: A Playwright’s Enigma.” Ethical Record, 4, 1990: 9-16.
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• Smith, Martin J. “Thomas Paine and the Argus, 1791-2.” TPS, 6, 1979: 83-85.
• Spater, George. “The Author of ‘A Forester’ Article.” TPS, 7, 1982. 53-56.
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• Stevenson, James A. “Reflections on William Blake and Thomas Paine.” San Jose Studies, 15, 1989: 62-70.
• Stevenson, John. “`Paineites to a Man’: The English Popular Radical Societies in the 1790s.” B.S.S.L.H., 54, 1989: 14-25.
• Thomas, Gordon K. “And When America Was Free’: Thomas Paine and the English Romantics.” Charles Lamb Bulletin, 69, 1990: 164-77. 
• “Glorious Revolution’: Wordsworth, Terror and Paine.” Wordsworth Circle, 21, 1990: 3-9.
• Vail, John. “Thomas Paine”. New York: Chelsea House, 1990.
• Vincent, Bernard. “Thomas Paine, Freemasonry and the American Revolution.” TPS, 1. 1988: 3-18. 
• “Cinq inedits de Thomas Paine.” Revue Francaise d’etudes Americaines, 40, 1989: 213-235.
• Voss, Frederick. “Honoring a Scorned Hero: America’s Monument to Thomas Paine.” New York History, 68, 1987: 132-50.
• Wesley, B. “Tom Paine and Mark Twain: ‘Common Sense’ as a Source for ‘The War Prayer’.” Conference of College Teachers of Studies, 54, 1989: 13-19.
• Williams, Michael J. “The 1790s: Paine and the Age of Reason.” TPS, 5, 1975: 13-27. 
• “The 1790s: The Impact of Infidelity.” TPS, 6, 1976: 21-30.
• Williamson, Audrey. “Thomas Paine and The Age of Reason.” The American Rationalist, 1, 1976: Unpaginated (2pp). 
• “Thomas Paine and His Radical Contemporar- ies.” Journal of Radical History, 1, 1983: 15-18.
• Wilson, David A. “Paine and Cobbett: The Transatlantic Connection”. Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 1988.
• Wilson, Jerome D. & Ricketson, William F. “Thomas Paine”. Boston: Twayne, 1978.
• Young, Claribel. “A Re-Examination of William Cobbett’s Opinions of Thomas Paine.” Journal of the Rutgers University Library, 39, 1977: 19-21.