"history" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Whig history further explains the Whig interpretation of history that Macaulay espoused.
- This is now regarded as an example of Whig history.
- Whig history is liberal historiography, written to show the inevitable progress of mankind.
- P. B. M. Blaas has argued that Whig history itself had lost all vitality by 1914.
- Paul Rapin de Thoyras's history of England, published in 1723, became "the classic Whig history" for the first half of the 18th century.
- More recently, some scholars have argued that Whig history is essential to the history of science.
- He falls prey to the common error of Whig history: interpreting past events as if they were inevitable stepping stones to the present.
- This kind of anachronism is considered to be a form of Whig history and is a special problem among historians of science.
- It's the Wired version of Whig history: ever better, onward and upward, progress unstopped.
- "Whig history" or "whiggishness" are often used as synonyms for Presentism, particularly when the historical depiction in question is teleological or triumphalist.
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