The expanding blaze: how the American Revolution ignited the world, 1775-1848

Introduction: The American Revolution and the origins of democratic modernity

First rumblings

A republican revolution

Revolutionary constitutionalism and the Federal Union (1776-90)

Schooling republicans

Benjamin Franklin: "American icon"?

Black emancipation: confronting slavery in the new republic

Expropriating the Native Americans

Whites dispossessed

Canada: an ideological conflict

John Adams's "American revolution"

Jefferson's French revolution

A tragic case: the Irish Revolution (1775-98)

America's "conservative turn": the emerging "party system" in the 1790s

America and the Haitian revolution

Louisiana and the Principles of '76

A revolutionary era: Napoleon, Spain, and the Americas (1808-15)

Reaction, radicalism, and Américanisme under "the Restoration" (1814-30)

The Greek revolution (1770-1830)

The Freedom-fighters of the 1830s

The revolutions of 1848: Democratic Republicanism versus Socialism

American reaction (1848-52)

Conclusion: "Exceptionalism," populism, and the radical Enlightenment's demise.