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For Macaulay, the clans constitute merely an obstacle to the triumph of civilization, understood in his own Whiggish terms as trade, industry, law, and material and technological progress.

A revolutionary transformation of the Church is claimed based on a prosopographical examination of William and Mary's episcopal appointments for the first four years of their reign: not "moderate Tory" (411, 423, etc.), but "Whiggish" (423) "Low Churchmen" (433-4, etc.).

Thus, these scholars reject a pioneering "Whiggish" explication that depicts the purveyors of new forms of useful knowledge as dedicated idealists who worked diligently to promote progress and social uplift.

The second half of the book examines reform plots that targeted wayward wives and tyrannically jealous husbands and demonstrates how these plots carried out two interconnected projects: the "consolidation and solidification of pro-government, Whiggish, middling class power" and "the emergence of the domestic ideal centered on the family in a well-ordered household" (8, 78).

In contrast to this Whiggish story, Pincus presents a very different analysis of events.

And then, maybe, someone may notice that the writing of early modern history has finally overcome the spell placed on it by fundamentalists of an Enlightened, Whiggish, or Marxist sort.

Here Coffey seeks to revise older 'Whiggish' interpretations of Goodwin that depicted him as the harbinger of the Lockean age, and suggests instead that he became the progenitor of eighteenth-century ideas about reason and liberty, ideas grounded firmly in religious soil.

The other is the facile, faintly whiggish tale of little adults becoming angels becoming rascals becoming consumers.

He is at pains to dismiss the usual Whiggish emphasis in military history on a move to better military technology and method.

In her first chapter, 'Conspiracy, Sensibility, and the Stoic', she examines three immediate responses, both 'Whiggish' and Tory-Royalist, to the Exclusion Crisis: Lee's Lucius Junius Brutus, which was regarded as altogether too politically dangerous and therefore suppressed; Dryden's Absalom and Achitophel; and Otway's Venice Preserved.

English culture in the eighteenth century was in large measure Whiggish

As the book ends with someone who defies classification, Professor Montgomery succeeds in writing history without the whiggish sin of describing aesthetic systems teleologically as progressive steps towards some happy culmination, be it Romanticism, modernism, or post-modernism.

The book's principal significance is the evidence it offers on an important industrial city whose history does not conform to the Whiggish assumptions all too common to historians of industrial America.

During these years he led an ambitious project to write a Whiggish history of Parliament.