{"title":"Jonathan Israel","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eJonathan Israel\u003c\/strong\u003e offers a profound exploration of Enlightenment thought and its enduring impact on modern philosophy and politics. His works delve into the radical ideas and key figures that shaped the intellectual landscape of the 17th and 18th centuries, framing history through a lens that emphasises reason, progress, and the clash of ideologies.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eReaders of Israel’s writing can expect rigorous scholarship that challenges conventional narratives, providing deep insight into the development of radical philosophy and its psychological underpinnings. His books are essential for those interested in the historical roots of contemporary intellectual movements and the evolution of modern thought.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"the-expanding-blaze-by-jonathan-israel-9780691195933","title":"The Expanding Blaze","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA major intellectual history of the American Revolution and its influence on later revolutions in Europe and the Americas, \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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eJonathan 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"NewSouth Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47559031390444,"sku":"9780691195933","price":84.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9780691195933-the-expanding-blaze.jpg?v=1776927496"}],"url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/collections\/jonathan-israel.oembed","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}