Kenneth Maxwell’s new book, 18th Century Globalization: The American Revolutionary Ideal Comes to Brazil,  demonstrates that the American Revolution did not merely create a new state. It helped catalyze an eighteenth‑century globalization of political ideas, institutions, and expectations that rippled across the Atlantic into Brazil, Europe, and the wider imperial world. This globalization did not … Continue reading 18th Century Globalization: The American Revolutionary Ideal Comes to Brazil