"I do not think that postmodernist and postcolonial analysis does away with metanarratives so much as demand a more searching scrutiny of their assumptions, implications and, in part, often concealed purposes."
Foreign Affair's G. John Ikenberry reviews Professor
Emeritus Jonathan Israel's The
Expanding Blaze: How the American Revolution Ignited the World,
1775–1848, writing, "This book’s wide-angle account of the
nineteenth-century spread of revolutionary...
Jonathan Israel, Professor
Emeritus in the School of Historical Studies, discusses his book
TheExpanding Blaze: How the American Revolution
Ignited the World, 1775–1848 with Gilad Halpern and Dalia
Scheindlin of the Tel Aviv Review.
Caitlin Fitz of the Wall Street Journal reviews The
Expanding Blaze by Jonathan
Israel, Professor Emeritus in the School of Historical Studies,
writing, "A relative newcomer to U.S. history, Mr. Israel sometimes
brings a refreshing outsider’s...
The Expanding Blaze: How the American Revolution Ignited the
World, 1775-1848 (Princeton University Press, 2017) by
Jonathan Israel, Professor Emeritus in the School of Historical
Studies, has been named the Times Higher Education's Book
of the Week...
Jonathan Israel, Professor Emeritus in the School of Historical Studies, has been awarded the 2017 Comenius Prize by the Foundation of the Comenius Museum in the Netherlands.
Jonathan Israel,
Professor Emeritus in the School of Historical Studies at the
Institute for Advanced Study, will a give a public lecture,
“Contesting American Values: The Bumpy Rise of Democracy in
the West (1776-1850),” on Friday,
October 28...
