The Political Ideal of the Enlightenment in the American Revolution [Book Review]

Intellectual History 9:491-506 (2020)
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A review essay on Jonathan Israel, The Expanding Blaze: How the American Revolution Ignited the World, 1775-1848 (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2017) and Richard D. Brown, Self-Evident Truths: Contesting Equal Rights from the Revolution to the Civil War (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2017).

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Elena Yi-Jia Zeng
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