The whig interpretation of the history of Red River

The whig interpretation, which can be most simply defined as the idea that past events led in direct and progressive stages to the present, has long been recognized as a basic historiographic fallacy. The fullest expression of the whig interpretation of western Canadian history is to be found in the...

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Main Author: Gallagher, Brian Martin
Language:English
Published: University of British Columbia 2010
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/2429/26473