A Liberal Descent: Victorian Historians and the English Past by J. W. Burrow

A Liberal Descent: Victorian Historians and the English Past

Cambridge Paperback Library

J. W. Burrow

320 pages missing pub info (editions)

nonfiction history challenging informative medium-paced
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The idea of a 'Whig interpretation' of English history incorporates the two fundamental notions of progress and continuity. The former made it possible to read English history as a 'success story', the latter endorsed a pragmatic, gradualist polit...

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