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Colbourne, T: Lamp of Experience: Whig History and the Intellectual Origins of the American Revolution - Softcover

Colbourn, H. Trevor

 
9780865971592: Colbourne, T: Lamp of Experience: Whig History and the Intellectual Origins of the American Revolution
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0865971595 ISBN 13: 9780865971592
Verlag: Liberty Fund Inc., 1998

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<p>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.</p> <p>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.</p> <p><strong>Trevor Colbourn</strong> is President Emeritus of the University of Central Florida.</p>

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Verlag
Liberty Fund Inc.
Erscheinungsdatum
1998
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0865971595
ISBN 13 
9780865971592
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Anzahl der Seiten
305
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