The final chapter, ‘Impossible History and the Politics of Hope,’ identifies ‘impossible’ as not imaginable within a Whiggish history of progressive development.
But Phillips sounds Whiggish indeed in regarding the three wars as building up to a global destiny.
Hall interpreted the political origins of the western states in the most strident of Whiggish sentiments and the relinquishment of Indian land rights in the self-justifying rhetoric of dispossession.
Indeed, in what seemed to be a throwback to nineteenth century Whiggish history, the viewing public were being sold a figure as being the greatest Briton.
Shelley was increasingly impatient with Whiggish parliamentary reform and compromise.
Definition of Whiggish in US English:
Whiggish
adjectiveˈ(h)wɪɡɪʃˈ(h)wiɡiSH
historical
See Whig
Example sentencesExamples
But Phillips sounds Whiggish indeed in regarding the three wars as building up to a global destiny.
Indeed, in what seemed to be a throwback to nineteenth century Whiggish history, the viewing public were being sold a figure as being the greatest Briton.
Hall interpreted the political origins of the western states in the most strident of Whiggish sentiments and the relinquishment of Indian land rights in the self-justifying rhetoric of dispossession.
Shelley was increasingly impatient with Whiggish parliamentary reform and compromise.
The final chapter, ‘Impossible History and the Politics of Hope,’ identifies ‘impossible’ as not imaginable within a Whiggish history of progressive development.