Nobody's Perfect: A New Whig Interpretation of History

by Annabel Patterson

Book Overview

Is history driven more by principle or interest? Are ideas of historical progress obsolete? Is it unforgivable to change one's mind or political allegiance? Did the eighteenth century really exchange the civilizing force of commercial advantage for political conflict? In this new account of liberal thought from its roots in seventeenth-century English thinking to the end of the eighteenth century, Annabel Patterson tackles these important historiographical...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0300092881
• ISBN13: 9780300092882
• Release Date: December 2002
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.3" x 8.7"