Whig history (or Whig historiography) is an approach to historiography that presents history as a journey from an oppressive and benighted past to a "glorious...
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Look up Whig in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Whig or Whigs may refer to: Whigs (British political party), one of two political parties in England,...
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The Whigs were a political party in the Parliaments of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom. Between the 1680s and the 1850s...
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The Whig Party was a mid-19th century political party in the United States. Alongside the Democratic Party, it was one of two major parties between the...
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The history of the United States Whig Party lasted from the establishment of the Whig Party early in President Andrew Jackson's second term (1833–1837)...
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Historiography (redirect from History of history)
post-colonial India Urban history American urban history Whig history, history interpreted as the story of continuous progress World history Zeitgeist Important...
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Thomas Babington Macaulay (category Whig history)
Whig politician, who served as the Secretary at War between 1839 and 1841, and as the Paymaster General between 1846 and 1848. Macaulay's The History...
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Hallam's Constitutional History of England of 1827 contains the "authoritative Whig presentation of modern English history", and it "immediately took...
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The American Whig–Cliosophic Society, sometimes abbreviated as Whig-Clio, is a political, literary, and debating society at Princeton University and the...
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expression. This model of human progress has been called the Whig interpretation of history. Macaulay's approach has been criticised by later historians...
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Great man theory (redirect from Great man history)
Revolutionary Structure and agency Timeline of scientific discoveries Übermensch Whig history Bentley, Eric (1944). A Century of Hero-Worship: A study of the idea...
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a Whig government may refer to the following British governments administered by the Whigs: Whig Junto, a name given to a group of leading Whigs who...
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The True Whig Party (TWP), also known as the Liberian Whig Party (LWP), is the oldest political party in Liberia and Africa as a whole. Founded in 1869...
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about the past which is not explicit or deliberate. urban history Victorian warfare Whig history A mode of historical interpretation which presents the past...
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Presentism (historical analysis) (category Whig history)
presentism was the so-called "Whig history", in which certain 18th- and 19th-century British historians wrote history in a way that used the past to...
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peace theory End of history Last Man Post-truth politics Sociocultural evolution Thumos The Clash of Civilizations Whig history Glaser, Eliane (March...
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The Rockingham Whigs (or Rockinghamites) in 18th-century British politics were a faction of the Whigs led by Charles Watson-Wentworth, 2nd Marquess of...
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English Revolution (category Whig history)
II, and a constitutional monarchy was established that was described by Whig historians as the "English Revolution". That interpretation suggests that...
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magazines List of history podcasts Narrative history Official history Popular science Whig history Pfitzer, Gregory M. (2008). Popular History and the Literary...
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in American history, which would not occur again until 1892. In 1839, the Whigs held a national convention for the first time. The 1839 Whig National Convention...
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The Whig was a polemical American newspaper published and edited by William G. "Parson" Brownlow (1805–1877) in the mid-nineteenth century. As its name...
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that was a permanent benefit to the French. Allan Greer argues that Whig history was once the dominant style of scholars. He says the: interpretive schemes...
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of the Whig Party defeated Senator Lewis Cass of the Democratic Party. Despite Taylor's unclear political affiliations and beliefs, and the Whig opposition...
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President Martin Van Buren defeated four candidates fielded by the nascent Whig Party. The 1835 Democratic National Convention chose a ticket of Van Buren...
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his memoirs, which are regarded as significant in the development of Whig history. Waldegrave was born the eldest son of James Waldegrave, 1st Earl Waldegrave...
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The Radical Whigs were a group of British political commentators associated with the British Whig faction who were at the forefront of the Radical movement...
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The First Whig Junto controlled the government of England from 1694 to 1699 and was the first part of the Whig Junto, a cabal of people who controlled...
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Second Melbourne ministry (redirect from Whig Government 1835-1841)
appointed by the Prime Minister. The young Queen was so attached to her Whig ladies of the bedchamber that after Melbourne's resignation in 1839, she...
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Herbert Butterfield (category Whig history)
chiefly for a short volume early in his career entitled The Whig Interpretation of History (1931) and for his Origins of Modern Science (1949). Butterfield...
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