Herbert Butterfield
Subtitle: history, providence, and skeptical politics
By: Kenneth B. McIntyre
Series: Library of Modern Thinkers
Publisher: ISI Books
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Wilmington, Del.
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 254
ISBN-13: 9781935191544
Subjects: Intellectuals; Philosophy; Historians; Biography; History
Description: Kenneth B. McIntyre explores the extraordinary range of Butterfield's work. He shows why the small book The Whig Interpretation of History (1931) achieved such large influence; Butterfield, he demonstrates, has profoundly shaped American and European historiography by highlighting the distortions that occur when historians interpret the past merely as steps along the way toward the glorious present. --from publisher description.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 171-238).
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: The autonomy of history; title: The historical revolution and the scientific revolution; title: Butterfield's politics: skeptical liberalism and international relations; title: Conclusion: Butterfield's legacy