10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «WHIGGISH»
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Whiggish in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
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rate, _ _ ...
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Deleuze's Hume: Philosophy, Culture and the Scottish ...
What Latour proposes is a theory of 'relative existence' that will avoid either the
Whiggish or anti-Whiggish positions. The Whiggish position assumes that our
current knowledge is what scientific progress has been leading to all along and
that ...
3
Critical Psychology: An Introduction
In the language of professional historians,this typeof history is 'Whiggish,' '
presentist,' and 'celebratory'. Likepolitical histories written in England when the
Whig party was in power, Whiggish histories assume that the current status
quoisa ...
Dennis Fox, Isaac Prilleltensky, Stephanie Austin, 2009
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Criticism and Commitment: Major Themes in Contemporary ...
On the other hand, Rorty could mean to say that epistemology needs the aid of
hermeneutics "where we do not understand what is happening but are honest
enough to admit it, rather than being blatantly 'Whiggish' about it. Rorty wishes to
...
Edward Joseph Echeverria, 1981
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Freedom's Gardener: James F. Brown, Horticulture, and the ...
A. Whiggish. Sensibility. One incubator for James Brown's politics was the
Whiggery shared by William E. Williams, his slavemaster in Maryland, and the
Verplancks, his New York employers. Despite differences where they eventually
fell ...
Myra Beth Young Armstead, 2012
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Parties, Slavery, and the Union in Antebellum Georgia
The western black belt had always been less Whiggish than the whole eastern
part, and much less Whiggish than old middle Georgia. Although the eastern
black belt as a whole gave a slight majority of its total vote to immediate
secessionists, ...
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Dunton's Recantation; Or, His Reasons for Deserting His ...
In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works in the largest archive of its kind.
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The Political Discourse of Anarchy: A Disciplinary History ...
George Stocking, in an influential article that appeared in the first volume of the
Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences, claimed that "the approach of
the professional social scientist is more likely to be Whiggish or, more broadly, ...
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Ballots and Fence Rails: Reconstruction on the Lower Cape Fear
The opinions of party leaders, however, fall into two rough groups, the Radical
views of the popular leaders and the Whiggish views of the Republican
businessmen. The differences between these two philosophies were not such as
to ...
William McKee Evans, 2004
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Making Histories in Transport Museums
Whiggish history conceptualizes technological progress as an asocial, apolitical
process, presenting technological knowledge and the technical qualities of
artefacts as matters divorced from the rough and tumble, the messy complexity, ...
Colin Divall, Andrew Scott, 2001
10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «WHIGGISH»
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Whiggish is used in the context of the following news items.
Rise like lions
Shelley was born into an aristocratic family of declining wealth and Whiggish political tendencies. His mutinies began early. At Eton, he raged against the ... «Red Flag, Jul 15»
The re-emergence of the Whigs could mark an old political and …
The Tory side of stability and reaction and on the other, the Whiggish side of being open minded, pro-free trade, pro-immigration and pro-social and economic ... «International Business Times UK, May 15»
Getting Whig-gy with it! Party candidate on Manchester comeback …
MM caught up with their Stretford and Urmston candidate, Paul Bradley-Law, to discuss his mission to revive the city's 'Whiggish tradition'. He may be ... «Mancunian Matters, May 15»
What Candidates Need
This Whiggish vision was his north star. He could bob and weave as politics demanded, but his incremental means always pointed to the same transformational ... «New York Times, Apr 15»
In Defense of Islam
But both Christians inclined to be skeptical of Islam and Whiggish liberals inclined to be skeptical of anything medieval need to recognize two things: First, that a ... «New York Times, Feb 15»
President Obama and Whig History
And then where Obama specifically is concerned — well, look: This is a White House that reliably falls back on Whiggish blather about history's “sides” when ... «New York Times, Feb 15»
Against Crusade Apologias
In Atheist Delusions, David Bentley Hart does a good job of both skewering the Whiggish narrative of the Crusades, but also of recognizing how the rhetoric that ... «Patheos, Feb 15»
Who were Winston Churchill's biggest heroes?
... in his History of the English Speaking Peoples. His whiggish narrative closely follows key heroic characters such as Julius Caesar and Richard the Lionheart. «Telegraph.co.uk, Jan 15»
History of Disgust
Elias and Miller fail, in part, because their historical perspective is too short, which enables them to tell a Whiggish story about the triumph of clean over ... «First Things, Dec 14»
Stamp duty revolution is pure politics - and I love it
Pretensions of whiggish libertarianism, which may well reflect his own ideological leanings, are as nothing compared to his predominant tactical imperatives. «FT Adviser, Dec 14»
