Expanding Blaze

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

The Expanding Blazeis 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 Blaze reminds us that the American Revolution was an astonishingly radical event--and that it didn't end with the transformation and independence of America. Rather, the revolution continued to reverberate in Europe and the Americas for the next three-quarters of a century. This comprehensive history of the revolution's international influence traces how American efforts to implement Radical Enlightenment ideas--including the destruction of the old regime and the promotion of democratic republicanism, self-government, and liberty--helped drive revolutions abroad, as foreign leaders explicitly 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.

O istorie intelectuala majora a Revolutiei Americane si influenta ei asupra revolutiilor ulterioare din Europa si America The Blanding Expanding este o istorie cuprinzatoare a modului in care Revolutia Americana a inspirat revolutiile din Europa si lumea atlantica din secolele XVIII si XIX. Jonathan Israel, unul dintre cei mai importanti istorici ai Iluminismului din lume, arata cum ideile radicale ale fondatorilor americani precum Paine, Jefferson, Franklin, Madison si Monroe stabilesc tiparul revolutiilor, miscarilor si constitutiilor democratice din Franta, Marea Britanie, Irlanda , Olanda, Belgia, Polonia, Grecia, Canada, Haiti, Brazilia si America spaniola. Flacara extinsa ne reaminteste ca Revolutia americana a fost un eveniment uimitor de radical - si ca nu s-a incheiat cu transformarea si independenta Americii .