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Whig Interpretation of History (view source)
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Histories of science often take the Whiggish approach, ignoring the dead ends and focusing on the steps that led to the present.
Histories of science often take the Whiggish approach, ignoring the dead ends and focusing on the steps that led to the present.
==Further reading ==
==Further reading ==
* Butterfield, Herbert. ''The Whig interpretation of history'' (1931)[http://books.google.com/books?id=Ia6IpQKrx58C&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q=&f=false online]
* Butterfield, Herbert. ''The Whig interpretation of history'' (1931)[https://books.google.com/books?id=Ia6IpQKrx58C&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q=&f=false online]
* Sewell, Keith C. "The 'Herbert Butterfield Problem' and its Resolution," ''Journal of the History of Ideas'', Volume 64, Number 4, October 2003, pp. 599–618 in [[Project MUSE]]; the "problem" is whether Butterfield in the 1940s himself adopted a Whig view; no, says Sewell; he praised Whig politicians but always criticized the Whig-style of historiography, an entirely different matter
* Sewell, Keith C. "The 'Herbert Butterfield Problem' and its Resolution," ''Journal of the History of Ideas'', Volume 64, Number 4, October 2003, pp. 599–618 in [[Project MUSE]]; the "problem" is whether Butterfield in the 1940s himself adopted a Whig view; no, says Sewell; he praised Whig politicians but always criticized the Whig-style of historiography, an entirely different matter