The Expanding Blaze : : How the American Revolution Ignited the World, 1775-1848 / / Jonathan Israel.

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• VerfasserIn: Israel, Jonathan,
• Place / Publishing House: Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2017]; ©2017
• Year of Publication: 2017
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource :; 23 halftones.

A major intellectual history of the American Revolution and its influence on later revolutions in Europe and the AmericasThe 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....

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• List of Illustrations
• Introduction: The American Revolution and the Origins of Democratic Modernity
• 1. First Rumblings
• 2. A Republican Revolution
• 3. Revolutionary Constitutionalism and the Federal Union (1776- 90)
• 4. Schooling Republicans
• 5. Benjamin Franklin: "American Icon"?
• 6. Black Emancipation: Confronting Slavery in the New Republic
• 7. Expropriating the Native Americans
• 8. Whites Dispossessed
• 9. Canada: An Ideological Conflict
• 10. John Adams's "American Revolution"
• 11. Jefferson's French Revolution
• 12. A Tragic Case: The Irish Revolution (1775- 98)
• 13. America's "Conservative Turn": The Emerging "Party System" in the 1790s
• 14. America and the Haitian Revolution
• 15. Louisiana and the Principles of '76
• 16. A Revolutionary Era: Napoleon, Spain, and the Americas (1808- 15)
• 17. Reaction, Radicalism, and Américanisme under "the Restoration" (1814- 30)
• 18. The Greek Revolution (1770- 1830)
• 19. The Freedom-Fighters of the 1830s
• 20. The Revolutions of 1848: Democratic Republicanism versus Socialism
• 21. American Reaction (1848- 52)
• Conclusion: "Exceptionalism," Populism, and the Radical Enlightenment's Demise
• Notes
• Bibliography
• Index