KnowraWhig historyLinked fromLinked fromThe 21 pages that link to Whig history, each with the reason it gives.All 21Related 5Compared with 16HistoriographyCompared with: It exemplifies the progress-centered accounts historiography scrutinizes.HistoricismCompared with: It illustrates how present-centered narratives can distort historical development.Marxist historiographyCompared with: Its story of steady political progress differs from Marxist accounts centered on conflict and material change.History of scienceCompared with: It is a common pitfall when past science is judged by modern standards.EurocentrismRelated: Its progress narrative can make Europe’s history appear to be humanity’s universal trajectory.PresentismRelated: Its progress narrative can make past societies seem deficient by present-day standards.Historical determinismRelated: Its progress narrative can turn contingent victories into apparently inevitable stages.E. P. ThompsonCompared with: Thompson’s conflict-centered histories resist tidy stories of inevitable progress.Philosophy of historyCompared with: It exemplifies the progress narratives philosophers scrutinize.Longue duréeCompared with: Longue durée favors structural explanation over a narrative of inevitable political progress.Academic historyCompared with: It exemplifies the present-centered narrative that professional historians often criticize.American LoyalistsCompared with: Older patriotic narratives often cast Loyalists as obstacles to a progress ending in independence.Thomas Babington MacaulayRelated: Macaulay’s account of England became a classic expression of this progressive interpretation.History of philosophyCompared with: It can turn philosophical history into a story of inevitable progress toward current views.Andrew MarvellCompared with: Later political readings of Marvell can turn his shifting allegiances into a misleading story of inevitable progress.Hugh Trevor-RoperCompared with: Trevor-Roper challenged histories that treated Britain’s political development as inevitable progress.G. M. TrevelyanRelated: Trevelyan’s histories often traced British political development in a progress-oriented narrative.Historiography of scienceCompared with: Histories of science have often cast current theories as the inevitable winners.Lewis NamierCompared with: Namier rejected its tendency to read later political divisions back into eighteenth-century Parliament.Samuel Rawson GardinerCompared with: Gardiner’s documentary detail is often set against the teleological pattern associated with Whig history.SonderwegCompared with: Sonderweg challenges the assumption that German modernization followed a normal democratic progression.
KnowraWhig historyLinked fromLinked fromThe 21 pages that link to Whig history, each with the reason it gives.All 21Related 5Compared with 16HistoriographyCompared with: It exemplifies the progress-centered accounts historiography scrutinizes.HistoricismCompared with: It illustrates how present-centered narratives can distort historical development.Marxist historiographyCompared with: Its story of steady political progress differs from Marxist accounts centered on conflict and material change.History of scienceCompared with: It is a common pitfall when past science is judged by modern standards.EurocentrismRelated: Its progress narrative can make Europe’s history appear to be humanity’s universal trajectory.PresentismRelated: Its progress narrative can make past societies seem deficient by present-day standards.Historical determinismRelated: Its progress narrative can turn contingent victories into apparently inevitable stages.E. P. ThompsonCompared with: Thompson’s conflict-centered histories resist tidy stories of inevitable progress.Philosophy of historyCompared with: It exemplifies the progress narratives philosophers scrutinize.Longue duréeCompared with: Longue durée favors structural explanation over a narrative of inevitable political progress.Academic historyCompared with: It exemplifies the present-centered narrative that professional historians often criticize.American LoyalistsCompared with: Older patriotic narratives often cast Loyalists as obstacles to a progress ending in independence.Thomas Babington MacaulayRelated: Macaulay’s account of England became a classic expression of this progressive interpretation.History of philosophyCompared with: It can turn philosophical history into a story of inevitable progress toward current views.Andrew MarvellCompared with: Later political readings of Marvell can turn his shifting allegiances into a misleading story of inevitable progress.Hugh Trevor-RoperCompared with: Trevor-Roper challenged histories that treated Britain’s political development as inevitable progress.G. M. TrevelyanRelated: Trevelyan’s histories often traced British political development in a progress-oriented narrative.Historiography of scienceCompared with: Histories of science have often cast current theories as the inevitable winners.Lewis NamierCompared with: Namier rejected its tendency to read later political divisions back into eighteenth-century Parliament.Samuel Rawson GardinerCompared with: Gardiner’s documentary detail is often set against the teleological pattern associated with Whig history.SonderwegCompared with: Sonderweg challenges the assumption that German modernization followed a normal democratic progression.