Author: Mark G. Spencer

Mark G. Spencer is Professor of History at Brock University in St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada. He is the author of David Hume and Eighteenth-Century America (2005) and editor of more than a dozen volumes, including The Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of the American Enlightenment (2015) which is now available as an ebook in the Oxford Reference Library. He enjoys reviewing books and does so regularly for academic journals and commercial publications, including the Times Literary Supplement and the Wall Street Journal.

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

Book Review: The Expanding Blaze: How the American Revolution Ignited the World, 1775-1848 by Jonathan Israel (Princeton University Press, 2017) BUY THE BOOK FROM AMAZON For Jonathan Israel, the American Revolution “was the crucible of democratic modernity” (24). But it played its role unwittingly, at times even unwillingly. While “moderation” dominated in America, writes Israel, […]

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