Whig history

名词 n.

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. An approach to historiography that presents history as a journey from an oppressive and benighted past to a “glorious present”. countable,uncountable
    — He [William Cronon] concisely explains that Whig histories tend to "praise revolutions [for history of science, we could read novelties, ideas or individuals]^([sic]) provided they have been successful, emphasise certain principles of progress in the past and produce a story which is the ratification if not the glorification of the present".

词形变化

Whig histories plural

词源

Described by English historian Herbert Butterfield in The Whig Interpretation of History (1931).
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