The Lamp of Experience: Whig History and the Intellectual Origins of the American Revolution

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Institute of Early American History and Culture at Williamsburg, Virginia, 1965 - Biography & Autobiography - 247 pages
Examines the historical justification for American independence in the writings of the seventeenth and eighteenth century philosophers and historians.

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ANCIENT AND MEDI
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TUDORS STUARTS
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THE NEW ENGLAND HISTORICAL CONSCIENCE
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