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 centuries. Jonathan Israel, one of the world’s leading historians of the Enlightenment, s...(展开全部)

[英]乔纳森·伊斯雷尔（Jonathan Israel） 本科毕业于剑桥大学，在牛津大学获得博士学位，现任普林斯顿高等研究院现代欧洲史名誉教授。沃尔夫森历史奖得主，世界知名启蒙运动历史学家。著有《法国大革命思想史》 《荷兰共和国：崛起、兴盛和衰落，1477—1806》等。

[英]乔纳森·伊斯雷尔（Jonathan Israel） 本科毕业于剑桥大学，在牛津大学获得博士学位，现任普林斯顿高等研究院现代欧洲史名誉教授。沃尔夫森历史奖得主，世界知名启蒙运动历史学家。著有《法国大革命思想史》 《荷兰共和国：崛起、兴盛和衰落，1477—1806》等。

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 centuries. Jonathan Israel, one of the world’s leading historians of the Enlightenment, s...(展开全部)

In a grand and immemsely readable synthesis of historical, political, cultural, and economic analysis, a prize-winning historian depicts much more than a break with England. He gives readers a revolution that transformed an almost feudal society into a democratic one, whose emerging realities sometimes baffled and disappointed its founding fathers.

In a grand and immemsely readable synthesis of historical, political, cultural, and economic analysis, a prize-winning historian depicts much more than a break with England. He gives readers a revolution that transformed an almost feudal society into a democratic one, whose emerging realities sometimes baffled and disappointed its founding fathers.

The first exploration of the profound and often catastrophic impact the American Revolution had on the rest of the world While the American Revolution led to domestic peace and liberty, it ultimately had a catastrophic global impact—it strengthened the British Empire and led to widespread persecution and duress. From the opium wars in China to anti-imperial rebellions in Peru t...(展开全部)

In this 25th anniversary edition, Bailyn has added a substantial essay, "Fulfillment", as a Postscript to the original text. In it he discusses the intense, nation-wide debate on the ratification of the constitution, stressing the continuities between that struggle over the foundations of the national government and the original principles of the Revolution. This study of the p...(展开全部)

In this 25th anniversary edition, Bailyn has added a substantial essay, "Fulfillment", as a Postscript to the original text. In it he discusses the intense, nation-wide debate on the ratification of the constitution, stressing the continuities between that struggle over the foundations of the national government and the original principles of the Revolution. This study of the p...(展开全部)