Nobody's perfect : a new Whig interpretation of history /

Is history driven more by principle or interest? Are ideas of historical progress obsolete? Is it unforgivable to change one's mind or political allegiance? Did the eighteenth century really exchange the civilizing force of commercial advantage for political conflict? In this new account of lib...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Patterson, Annabel M.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New Haven : Yale University Press, [2002]
Subjects:
Whig Party (Great Britain)
Whig Party (Grande-Bretagne)
1600-1799
Historiography > Great Britain > History > 17th century.
Historiography > Great Britain > History > 18th century.
Political science > Great Britain > History.
Historiographie > Grande-Bretagne > Histoire > 17e siècle.
Historiographie > Grande-Bretagne > Histoire > 18e siècle.
Idées politiques > Grande-Bretagne > Histoire.
HISTORY > Europe > Great Britain.
Historiography.
Intellectual life.
Political science.
Liberalismus
Whigs
Geschiedschrijving.
Whigs.
Liberalismus.
Great Britain > Historiography.
Great Britain > Intellectual life > 17th century.
Great Britain > Intellectual life > 18th century.
Grande-Bretagne > Historiographie.
Grande-Bretagne > Vie intellectuelle > 17e siècle.
Grande-Bretagne > Vie intellectuelle > 18e siècle.
Great Britain.
Großbritannien
Großbritannien.
History.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • John Almon : more than a bookseller
  • Reading the Letter : a (short) chapter of its own
  • Inventing postcolonialism : Burke's and Barry's Paradise lost and regained
  • The meaning of names : Thompson's Marvell and the Whigs
  • The two snuffboxes : recovering the Whig in Reynolds
  • Thomas Erskine : the great defender
  • Two steps forward, one step backwards : William Wordsworth's revisionism.

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