Libros de Jonathan I. Israel

La Sombra De La Leyenda Negra

• 544 páginas
• Lo que va a encontrarse el lector en las páginas de este libro es un análisis de los orígenes y persistencia de la leyenda negra y una reflexión sobre su impacto y las reacciones que provoca. No hemos pretendido ser exhaustivos...

Una Revolución De La Mente

• 232 páginas
• "Esta 'revolución de la mente' de las décadas de 1760 y 1770 fue sencillamente —afirma el autor— uno de los cambios más grandes y decisivos de toda la historia de la humanidad".

Acuarela De Brasil, 500 Años Después

• 96 páginas

Enlightenment That Failed

• 1082 páginas
• The Enlightenment that Failed explores the growing rift between those Enlightenment trends and initiatives that appealed exclusively to elites and those aspiring to enlighten all of society by raising mankind’s awareness, freedoms, and...

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

• 768 páginas
• "A major intellectual history of the American Revolution and its influence on later revolutions in Europe and the Americas, the Expanding Blaze is a sweeping history of how the American Revolution inspired revolutions throughout Europe and the Atlantic...

La Ilustración Radical . La Filosofía Y La Construcción De La Modernidad, 1650-1750

• 1004 páginas

The Expanding Blaze

• The Expanding Blaze is a sweeping history of how the American Revolution inspired revolutions throughout Europe and the Atlantic world in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Jonathan Israel, one of the world’s leading historians...

Revolutionary Ideas

• 884 páginas
• "Historians of the French Revolution used to take for granted what was also obvious to its contemporary observers--that the Revolution was caused by the radical ideas of the Enlightenment. Yet in recent decades scholars have argued that the Revolution...

A Revolution Of The Mind

• 276 páginas
• Democracy, free thought and expression, religious tolerance, individual liberty, political self-determination of peoples, sexual and racial equality-these values have firmly entered the mainstream in the decades since they were enshrined in the 1948 U....

Enlightenment Contested

• 1024 páginas
• Jonathan Israel presents the first major reassessment of the Western Enlightenment for a generation.

Spinoza Theologicl-politicl Treatse

• 330 páginas
• A new translation with a substantial historical and philosophical introduction of this important philosophical work.

Radical Enlightenment

• 832 páginas
• Arguably the most decisive shift in the history of ideas in modern times was the complete demolition during the late seventeenth and eighteenth centuries - in the wake of the Scientific Revolution - of traditional structures of authority, scientific thoug...

The Anglo-dutch Moment

• 520 páginas

Dutch Primacy In World Trade, 1585-1740

The Dutch Republic

• 1262 páginas
• The Dutch Golden Age, the age of Grotius, Spinoza, Rembrandt, Vermeer, and a host of other renowned artists and writers was also remarkable for its immense impact in the spheres of commerce, finance, shipping, and technology. It was in fact one of the...

European Jewry In The Age Of Mercantilism, 1550-1750

• 288 páginas
• Surveys the early modern period of Jewish history, which is seen as a transitional period that is distinct from the Jewish Middle Ages and the post-Enlightenment era. Israel (Dutch History, U. College, London) maintains that Europe's Ashkenazi and...