Introduction: The American Revolution and the origins of democratic modernity
First rumblings
A republican revolution
Revolutionary constitutionalism and the Federal Union (1776-90)
Schooling republicans
Benjamin Franklin: "American icon"?
Black emancipation: confronting slavery in the new republic
Expropriating the Native Americans
Whites dispossessed
Canada: an ideological conflict
John Adams's "American revolution"
Jefferson's French revolution
A tragic case: the Irish Revolution (1775-98)
America's "conservative turn": the emerging "party system" in the 1790s
America and the Haitian revolution
Louisiana and the Principles of '76
A revolutionary era: Napoleon, Spain, and the Americas (1808-15)
Reaction, radicalism, and Américanisme under "the Restoration" (1814-30)
The Greek revolution (1770-1830)
The Freedom-fighters of the 1830s
The revolutions of 1848: Democratic Republicanism versus Socialism
American reaction (1848-52)
Conclusion: "Exceptionalism," populism, and the radical Enlightenment's demise.