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

The Enlightenment That Failed: Ideas, Revolution, And Democratic Defeat, 1748-1830

• The Enlightenment that Failed explores the growing rift between those Enlightenment trends

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

• A major intellectual history of the American Revolution and its influence on later..

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

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

Democratic Enlightenment

• 1088 páginas
• That the Enlightenment shaped modernity is uncontested. Yet remarkably few historians or..

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

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

The Expansion Of Tolerance

• Two renowned historians address the issue of religious tolerance in the Dutch-ruled Brazil in the seventeenth century. The reputation of the Dutch for religious tolerance was never more justified than in their Brazilian colony, where Catholics and Jews...

Spinoza: Theological-political Treatise

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

Radical Enlightenment

• 832 páginas
• In the wake of the Scientific Revolution, the late seventeenth and eighteenth centuries saw the complete demolition of traditional structures of authority, scientific thought, and belief by the new philosophy and the philosophers, including Voltaire, Dide...

The Anglo-dutch Moment

Dutch Primacy In World Trade, 1585-1740

The Dutch Republic

• 1262 páginas
• "Jonathan Israel's 1,231-page blockbuster forms the inaugural volume of a new series, the Oxford..

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...