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The Expanding Blaze: How the American Revolution Ignited the World, 1775-1848
Jonathan Israel
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Description for The Expanding Blaze: How the American Revolution Ignited the World, 1775-1848
Hardback. Num Pages: 744 pages, 23 b/w illus. BIC Classification: HPS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 155. .
A major intellectual history of the American Revolution and its influence on later revolutions in Europe and the Americas The Expanding Blaze is a sweeping history of how the American Revolution inspired revolutions throughout Europe and the Atlantic world in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Jonathan Israel, one of the world's leading historians of the Enlightenment, shows how the radical ideas of American founders such as Paine, Jefferson, Franklin, Madison, and Monroe set the pattern for democratic revolutions, movements, and constitutions in France, Britain, Ireland, the Netherlands, Belgium, Poland, Greece, Canada, Haiti, Brazil, and Spanish America. The Expanding ... Read more
A major intellectual history of the American Revolution and its influence on later revolutions in Europe and the Americas The Expanding Blaze is a sweeping history of how the American Revolution inspired revolutions throughout Europe and the Atlantic world in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Jonathan Israel, one of the world's leading historians of the Enlightenment, shows how the radical ideas of American founders such as Paine, Jefferson, Franklin, Madison, and Monroe set the pattern for democratic revolutions, movements, and constitutions in France, Britain, Ireland, the Netherlands, Belgium, Poland, Greece, Canada, Haiti, Brazil, and Spanish America. The Expanding ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
Number of Pages
768
Place of Publication
New Jersey, United States
ISBN
9780691176604
SKU
V9780691176604
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About Jonathan Israel
Jonathan Israel is professor emeritus of modern history at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. His many books include Revolutionary Ideas: An Intellectual History of the French Revolution from The Rights of Man to Robespierre and A Revolution of the Mind: Radical Enlightenment and the Intellectual Origins of Modern Democracy (both Princeton).
Reviews for The Expanding Blaze: How the American Revolution Ignited the World, 1775-1848
Stoutly makes the case that the American Revolution was `of immense consequence for America's future and for the rest of globe.' Though not a new argument, it has never before been made so fully or with such convincing force. . . . Like Israel's previous books, this bravura, complex, learned interpretation of 75 years of revolutionary history is sure to ... Read more