The expanding blaze : how the American Revolution ignited the world, 1775-1848

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 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 cen...

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Author / Contributor: Israel, Jonathan, 1946- (Author)
Imprint: Princeton : Princeton University Press, [2017]
Format: Electronic
Language:English
Subjects:
United States > History > Revolution, 1775-1783 > Influence.
Revolutions > History > 18th century.
Revolutions > History > 19th century.
Electronic books.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: The American Revolution and the origins of democratic modernity
  • First rumblings
  • A republican revolution
  • Revolutionary constitutionalism and the Federal Union (1776-90)
  • Schooling republicans
  • Benjamin Franklin: "American icon"?
  • Black emancipation: confronting slavery in the new republic
  • Expropriating the Native Americans
  • Whites dispossessed
  • Canada: an ideological conflict
  • John Adams's "American revolution"
  • Jefferson's French revolution
  • A tragic case: the Irish Revolution (1775-98)
  • America's "conservative turn": the emerging "party system" in the 1790s
  • America and the Haitian revolution
  • Louisiana and the Principles of '76
  • A revolutionary era: Napoleon, Spain, and the Americas (1808-15)
  • Reaction, radicalism, and Américanisme under "the Restoration" (1814-30)
  • The Greek revolution (1770-1830)
  • The Freedom-fighters of the 1830s
  • The revolutions of 1848: Democratic Republicanism versus Socialism
  • American reaction (1848-52)
  • Conclusion: "Exceptionalism," populism, and the radical Enlightenment's demise.

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