The Lamp of Experience
In a landmark work, a leading scholar of the eighteenth century examines the ways in which an understanding of the nature of history, seen as as a continual struggle between liberty and virtue on one hand and arbitrary power and corruption on the other, influenced the thinking of the founding fathers.
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The Lamp of Experience: Whig History and the Intellectual Origins of the American Revolution (Indianapolis: Liberty Fund 1998).
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The copyright to this edition, in both print and electronic forms, is held by Liberty Fund, Inc.
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- Author: Trevor Colbourn
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Table of Contents
- Contents
- Preface to the Liberty Fund Edition: 1943 and All That
- Preface to the 1965 Edition
- PART ONE: The English Heritage and the Colonial Historical View
- History and the Eighteenth-Century Colonist
- I
- II
- III
- The Colonial Perspective: Ancient and Medieval
- I
- II
- III
- IV
- V
- The Colonial Perspective: Tudors, Stuarts, and Hanoverians
- I
- II
- III
- IV
- PART TWO: The Revolutionary Use of History
- The New England Historical Conscience
- I
- II
- III
- IV
- John Adams: Political Scientist as Historian
- I
- II
- III
- IV
- Three Pennsylvanians: John Dickinson, James Wilson, Benjamin Franklin
- I
- II
- III
- IV
- The Historical Mind of the South
- I
- II
- III
- Thomas Jefferson and the Rights of Expatriated Men
- I
- II
- III
- IV
- V
- VI
- VII
- The Whig Historical Tradition and the Origins of the American Revolution
- I
- II
- III
- The Saxon Myth Dies Hard
- History in the Colonial Library
- I.: COLLEGE CATALOGUES
- A. Harvard College
- B. Yale College
- C. The College of New Jersey
- D. Rhode Island College
- II.: SOCIAL OR PUBLIC LIBRARIES
- A. New England
- B. New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania
- C. The Southern Colonies
- III. PRIVATE LIBRARIES
- A. New England
- B. New York and Pennsylvania
- C. The Southern Colonies
- IV. THE BOOK TRADE
- A. New England
- B. New York and Pennsylvania
- C. The Southern Colonies
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