The Expanding Blaze: How the American Revolution Ignited the World, 1775-1848
by Jonathan Israel
For many people, the American Revolution is purely about America achieving independence from Britain, but it had much, much deeper reverberations globally. This is the story that Jonathan Israel, one of the most exciting historians of early modern Europe, tells in The Expanding Blaze. This is an intellectual history, more than 700 pages in length, but Israel’s prose is highly readable, so don’t be too intimidated.
You can also read our interview with Jonathan Israel on the Enlightenment.
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