Trevor Colbourn: 1 book
The Lamp of Experience
Whig History and the Intellectual Origins of the American Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 1998
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...
