
The Expanding Blaze
How the American Revolution Ignited the World, 1775-1848
Jonathan Israel(Author)
Princeton University Press
Will be published approx. on 26. November 2019
Book
Paperback/Softback
768 pages
978-0-691-19593-3 (ISBN)
Description
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 the American founders 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 book traces how American efforts to implement Radical Enlightenment ideas drove revolutions abroad, as foreign leaders followed the American example and espoused American democratic values. The first major new intellectual history of the age of democratic revolution in decades, The Expanding Blaze returns the American Revolution to its global context.
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 the American founders 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 book traces how American efforts to implement Radical Enlightenment ideas drove revolutions abroad, as foreign leaders followed the American example and espoused American democratic values. The first major new intellectual history of the age of democratic revolution in decades, The Expanding Blaze returns the American Revolution to its global context.
Reviews / Votes
"One of Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction Books of 2017 in American History" "Honorable Mention for the 2018 PROSE Award in U.S. History, Association of American Publishers"More details
Language
English
Place of publication
New Jersey
United States
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Illustrations
23 b/w illus.
Dimensions
Height: 228 mm
Width: 144 mm
Thickness: 53 mm
Weight
1155 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-691-19593-3 (9780691195933)
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E-Book
09/2018
1st Edition
Princeton University Press
€27.49
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Person
Jonathan Israel is professor emeritus of modern history at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. His many books include Revolutionary Ideas and A Revolution of the Mind (both Princeton).