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Wednesday, January 30, 2008

L3 Contestation sociale - Whiggish historiography - Wikipedia

Whiggish historiography - Wikipedia

One of the pitfalls we will be looking at on the course is that of a whiggish view of history. You may not know what this is : the wikipedia article on it is a fair introduction - follow the link.

Basically a whiggish view is to see history as inevitable progress...

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