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

Abstract

In a landmark work, a leading scholar of the eighteenth century uses diaries, personal correspondence, newspapers, and legislative records to examine the ways in which an understanding of the nature of history influenced the thinking of the Founding Fathers.

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