The Lamp of Experience.
Material type:
- text
- computer
- online resource
- 9781614877899
- Statesmen -- Books and reading -- United States -- History -- 18th century
- United States -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783 -- Causes
- Great Britain -- History -- Study and teaching -- United States -- History -- 18th century
- Great Britain -- Politics and government -- Historiography
- United States -- Intellectual life -- 18th century
- 973.311
- E210 -- .C58 1998eb
Intro -- Trevor Colbourn, The Lamp of Experience -- Front Matter -- Title Page -- Copyright Details -- Table of Contents, pp. ix-x -- Preface to the Liberty Fund Edition: 1943 and All That, p. xi -- Preface to the 1965 Edition, p. xxi -- Part One. The English Heritage and the Colonial Historical View, p. 1 -- Chapter I. History and the Eighteenth-Century Colonist, p. 3 -- Chapter II. The Colonial Perspective: Ancient and Medival, p. 25 -- Chapter III. The Colonial Perspective: Tudors, Stuarts, and Hanoverians, p. 48 -- Part Two. The Revolutionary Use of History, p. 69 -- Chapter IV. The New England Historical Conscience, p. 71 -- Chapter V. John Adams: Political Scientist as Historian, p. 100 -- Chapter VI. Three Pennsylvanians: John Dickinson, James Wilson, Benjamin Franklin, p. 129 -- Chapter VII. The Histoical Mind of the South, p. 163 -- Chapter VIII. Thomas Jefferson and the Rights of Expatriated Men, p. 193 -- Chapter IX. The Whig Historical Tradition and the Origins of the American Revolution, p. 226 -- Appendix I. The Saxon Myth Dies Hard, p. 237 -- Appendix II. History in the Colonial Library, p. 245 -- Index, p. 287.
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