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Lamp of Experience - Whig History & the Intellectual Origins of the American Revolution (Paperback)
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Lamp of Experience - Whig History & the Intellectual Origins of the American Revolution (Paperback)
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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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