| 摘要 | 第4-5页 |
| Abstract | 第5-6页 |
| Acknowledgements | 第7-9页 |
| Introduction | 第9-15页 |
| Chapter One Paine’s Liberating Thoughts Conducive to the AmericanIndependence War | 第15-31页 |
| 1.1. The Theory of Natural Rights | 第15-19页 |
| 1.2. The Theory of Relations Between Society and Government | 第19-23页 |
| 1.3. Criticism of Absolute Monarchy and British Hereditary System | 第23-25页 |
| 1.4. Advocation of the Representative System and Democratic Republic | 第25-31页 |
| Chapter Two The Contribution of Paine’s Thoughts to the AmericanIndependence War | 第31-47页 |
| 2.1. The Significance of Paine’s Thoughts During the Early Period of the War | 第31-40页 |
| 2.1.1.Appealing to the indifferent American publics | 第31-36页 |
| 2.1.2.Making the direction of the American Independence War clear | 第36-40页 |
| 2.2. The Effect of Paine’s Thoughts at the Turning Points of the War | 第40-47页 |
| 2.2.1. Cheering Americans up during the hard times | 第40-43页 |
| 2.2.2. Keeping Americans alert with partial victories | 第43-47页 |
| Chapter Three Paine’s Personal Participation in the War | 第47-54页 |
| 3.1. Paine’s Fighting on the Battlefields of the American Independence War | 第47-49页 |
| 3.2. Paine’s Striving for the Rights of the Colonial Americans Personally | 第49-51页 |
| 3.3. The Importance of Paine’s Personal Participation in the War | 第51-54页 |
| Conclusion | 第54-56页 |
| Works Cited | 第56-57页 |
