The Lamp of Experience: Whig History and the Intellectual Origins of the American Revolution - Couverture souple

Colbourne, Trevor

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0865971595 ISBN 13 : 9780865971592

Editeur : Liberty Fund Inc, 1998

Synopsis

In a landmark work, a leading scholar of the eighteenth century examines the ways in which an understanding of the nature of history influenced the thinking of the founding fathers.

As Jack P. Greene has observed, "[The Whig] conception saw the past as a continual struggle between liberty and virtue on one hand and arbitrary power and corruption on the other." Many founders found in this intellectual tradition what Josiah Quincy, Jr., called the "true old English liberty," and it was this Whig tradition--this conception of liberty--that the champions of American independence and crafters of the new republic sought to perpetuate. Colbourn supports his thesis--that "Independence was in large measure the product of the historical concepts of the men who made it"--by documenting what books were read most widely by the founding generation. He also cites diaries, personal correspondence, newspapers, and legislative records.

Trevor Colbourn is President Emeritus of the University of Central Florida.

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Trevor Colbourne

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Liberty Fund Inc
• Date d'édition: 1998
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0865971595
• ISBN 13: 9780865971592
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 328
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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