From the February 2018 Issue A Light unto the World? The Expanding Blaze: How the American Revolution Ignited the World, 1775–1848 By Jonathan Israel LR
From the April 2014 Issue Fighting Philosophers Revolutionary Ideas: An Intellectual History of the French Revolution from The Rights of Man to Robespierre By Jonathan Israel LR
From the October 2011 Issue Free Radicals Democratic Enlightenment: Philosophy, Revolution, and Human Rights 1750–1790 By Jonathan Israel LR
From the May 2001 Issue Did He Influence the Mushrooming Zeitgeist? Radical Enlightenment: Philosophy and the Making of Modernity 1650–1750 By Jonathan Israel LR
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