The Lamp of Experience. Whig History and the Intellectual Origins of the American Revolution

Colbourn, Trevor

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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Titel: The Lamp of Experience. Whig History and the...
Verlag: Liberty Fund Inc.
Erscheinungsdatum: 1998
Einband: Paperback
Zustand: Very Good