Jonathan Israel
Jonathan Israel is Professor Emeritus, Modern European History, at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton and a leading historian of early modern Europe.
Books by Jonathan Israel
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.
“The Radical Enlightenment is the key to understanding universal human rights.” Read more...
The best books on The Enlightenment
Jonathan Israel, Historian
Radical Enlightenment
by Jonathan Israel
The first in a magnificent trilogy, through which Israel rethinks the history of the Enlightenment and its impact upon the modern world
The Anglo-Dutch Moment
by Jonathan Israel
Israel was the first person to break the consensus about the un-revolutionary nature of the English Revolution of 1688-9
Interviews with Jonathan Israel
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The Crisis of the European Mind
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The Enlightenment in America
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The Enlightenment and the Intellectual Foundations of Modern Culture
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The Religious Enlightenment
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Democratic Enlightenment: Philosophy, Revolution, and Human Rights, 1750-1790
by Jonathan Israel
The best books on The Enlightenment, recommended by Jonathan Israel
The best books on The Enlightenment, recommended by Jonathan Israel
Which are the best books on the Enlightenment? Jonathan Israel, one of the leading historians of early modern Europe, recommends his top five.
Interviews where books by Jonathan Israel were recommended
The best books on The Glorious Revolution, recommended by Steven Pincus
When William of Orange came from Holland to take the English throne in 1688, was it a foreign invasion, or a revolution from within? Yale historian, Steven Pincus, talks us through the conflicting views on the Glorious Revolution and argues for a new perspective.
The best books on Morality Without God, recommended by Kenan Malik
Religion is often presented as the guardian of moral values. The problem with this, says the author and broadcaster, is that it diminishes what it means to be human. He picks the best books on morality without God.
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1
The Crisis of the European Mind
by Paul Hazard -
2
The Enlightenment in America
by Henry May -
3
The Enlightenment and the Intellectual Foundations of Modern Culture
by Louis Dupré -
4
The Religious Enlightenment
by David Sorkin -
5
Democratic Enlightenment: Philosophy, Revolution, and Human Rights, 1750-1790
by Jonathan Israel
The best books on The Enlightenment, recommended by Jonathan Israel
The best books on The Enlightenment, recommended by Jonathan Israel
Which are the best books on the Enlightenment? Jonathan Israel, one of the leading historians of early modern Europe, recommends his top five.
