03161nam 2200613 a 450 991095561860332120251117092419.01-61487-789-0(CKB)2670000000275834(EBL)3327316(SSID)ssj0000756167(PQKBManifestationID)11463356(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000756167(PQKBWorkID)10751267(PQKB)11312539(MiAaPQ)EBC3327316(OCoLC)61704227(MdBmJHUP)muse22206(Au-PeEL)EBL3327316(CaPaEBR)ebr10614221(CaONFJC)MIL582657(OCoLC)929118632(BIP)42679340(BIP)47397509(EXLCZ)99267000000027583419970327e19981965 uy 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrThe lamp of experience Whig history and the intellectual origins of the American Revolution /Trevor ColbournIndianapolis Liberty Fundc19981 online resource (337 p.)Originally published: Chapel Hill, N.C. : University of North Carolina Press, 1965. With new introduction.0-86597-159-5 Includes bibliographical references and index.pt. 1. The English heritage and the colonial historical view -- pt. 2. The revolutionary use of history.In a landmark work, a leading scholar of the eighteenth century examines the ways in which an understanding of the nature of history influenced the thinking of the founding fathers.As Jack P. Greene has observed, " The Whig] conception saw the past as a continual struggle between liberty and virtue on one hand and arbitrary power and corruption on the other." Many founders found in this intellectual tradition what Josiah Quincy, Jr., called the "true old English liberty," and it was this Whig tradition--this conception of liberty--that the champions of American independence and crafters of the new republic sought to perpetuate. Colbourn supports his thesis--that "Independence was in large measure the product of the historical concepts of the men who made it"--by documenting what books were read most widely by the founding generation. He also cites diaries, personal correspondence, newspapers, and legislative records.Trevor Colbourn is President Emeritus of the University of Central Florida.StatesmenBooks and readingUnited StatesHistory18th centuryUnited StatesHistoryRevolution, 1775-1783CausesGreat BritainHistoryStudy and teachingUnited StatesHistory18th centuryGreat BritainPolitics and governmentHistoriographyUnited StatesIntellectual life18th centuryStatesmenBooks and readingHistory973.3/11Colbourn H. Trevor1863301MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910955618603321The lamp of experience4469873UNINA