{"product_id":"the-expanding-blaze-how-the-american-revolution-ignited-the-world-1775-1848-9780691176604","title":"The Expanding Blaze: How the American Revolution Ignited the World, 1775-1848","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA major intellectual history of the American Revolution and its influence on later revolutions in Europe and the Americas\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Expanding Blaze\u003c\/i\u003e 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 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Expanding Blaze\u003c\/i\u003e 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe first major new intellectual history of the age of democratic revolution in decades, \u003ci\u003eThe Expanding Blaze\u003c\/i\u003e returns the American Revolution to its global context.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Jonathan Israel\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Princeton University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/29\/2017\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 768\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 3.05lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.40h x 6.60w x 2.30d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780691176604","brand":"Princeton University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43446860906633,"sku":"9780691176604","price":39.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0636\/9240\/6921\/files\/img_49318fea-9c00-4ac5-bcc0-cdcb82e0053f.jpg?v=1741683969","url":"https:\/\/sonsanddaughtersbooks.com\/products\/the-expanding-blaze-how-the-american-revolution-ignited-the-world-1775-1848-9780691176604","provider":"Sons and Daughters Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}