The Expanding Blaze

Resumen del libro

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. Jonathan Israel, one of the world's leading historians of the Enlightenment, shows how the radical ideas of the American founders 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 book traces how American efforts to implement Radical Enlightenment ideas drove revolutions abroad, as foreign leaders 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.

Biografía del autor

Jonathan Israel (Londres, 1946) es profesor de historia moderna en el Instituto de Estudios Avanzados de Princeton y probablemente el más destacado estudioso actual de la Ilustración. Es autor de más de 15 títulos, mucho de ellos sobre la Holanda de los siglos XVII y XVIII, y su obra capital es la trilogía mencionada. Hay traducción castellana de su libro Radical Enlightenment (La Ilustración radical, Fondo de Cultura Económica).