The Expanding Blaze How the American Revolution Ignited the World, 1775-1848

Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Introduction: The American Revolution and the Origins of Democratic Modernity -- 1. First Rumblings -- 2. A Republican Revolution -- 3. Revolutionary Constitutionalism and the Federal Union (1776-90) -- 4. Schooling Republicans -- 5. Benjamin Franklin: "American Icon"? -- 6. Black Emancipation: Confronting Slavery in the New Republic -- 7. Expropriating the Native Americans -- 8. Whites Dispossessed -- 9. Canada: An Ideological Conflict -- 10. John Adams's "American Revolution"--11. Jefferson's French Revolution -- 12. A Tragic Case: The Irish Revolution (1775-98) -- 13. America's "Conservative Turn": The Emerging "Party System" in the 1790s -- 14. America and the Haitian Revolution -- 15. Louisiana and the Principles of '76 -- 16. A Revolutionary Era: Napoleon, Spain, and the Americas (1808-15) -- 17. Reaction, Radicalism, and Américanisme under "the Restoration" (1814-30) -- 18. The Greek Revolution (1770-1830) -- 19. The Freedom- Fighters of the 1830s -- 20. The Revolutions of 1848: Democratic Republicanism versus Socialism -- 21. American Reaction (1848-52) -- Conclusion: "Exceptionalism," Populism, and the Radical Enlightenment's Demise -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index