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

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....

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Israel, Jonathan (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2017]
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • 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