 | Ian Clark - 1989 - Страниц: 268
...cunning of the Great Powers themselves. Butterfield noted of the whig interpretation that through its 'system of immediate reference to the present-day,...furthered progress and the men who tried to hinder it'.11 That is to say that history is populated by heroes and villains. At the international level... | |
 | Robert Mighall - 2003 - Страниц: 344
...observes: 'It is part and parcel of the whig interpretation of history that it studies the past with reference to the present . . . Through this system...furthered progress and the men who tried to hinder it.'9 This emphasis can be explicit, but is more often implicit. It is implicit in the Gothic novels... | |
 | Janet Sorensen - 2000 - Страниц: 350
...which Butterfield defines as a history which "studies the past with reference to the present . . . [Historical personages can easily and irresistibly...furthered progress and the men who tried to hinder it." The Whig Interpretation of History (London: G. Bell and Sons, 1951), pn 54 Cited in Weinbrot, Britannia's,... | |
 | Annabel M. Patterson, Professor Annabel Patterson - 2002 - Страниц: 308
...obstruction to historical understanding. . . . Through this system of immediate reference to the present day, historical personages can easily and irresistibly...furthered progress and the men who tried to hinder it; ... the historian . . . will imagine that he has discovered a "root" or an "anticipation" of the 2oth... | |
 | Stéphane Lévesque - 2008 - Страниц: 241
...As Butterfield made it clear, by looking at the past exclusively in light of present-day standards 'historical personages can easily and irresistibly...furthered progress and the men who tried to hinder it.'50 But, as useful as Collingwood's ideas might be, they do not necessarily equip contemporary actors... | |
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Through this system of immediate reference to the present-day, historical personages can easily be classed into the men who furthered progress and the men who tried to hinder it; so that a handy rule of thumb exists by which the historian can select and... 