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LAMP_i-xxvi.indd 9 5/27/11 1:09 PM Contents Preface to the Liberty Fund Edition: 1943 and All That Xl Preface to the 1965 Edition XXl Part One · The English Heritage and the Colonial Historical View CHAPTER I · History and the Eighteenth-Century Colonist 3 CHAPTER II · The Colonial Perspective: Ancient and Medieval 25 CHAPTER III · The Colonial Perspective: Tudors, Stuarts, and Hanoverians 48 Part Two · The Revolutionary Use of History CHAPTER IV · The New England Historical Conscience 7I CHAPTER V ·john Adams: Political Scientist as Historian IOO LAMP_i-xxvi.indd 10 5/27/11 1:09 PM CONTENTS CHAPTER VI 0 Three Pennsylvanians: John Dickinson, James Wilson, Benjamin Franklin 129 CHAPTER VII 0 The Historical Mind of the South 163 CHAPTER VIII 0 Thomas Jefferson and the Rights of Expatriated Men 193 CHAPTER IX o The Whig Historical Tradition and the Origins of the American Revolution 226 Appendices I 0 The Saxon Myth Dies Hard 237 II 0 History in the Colonial Library 245 Index 287 X ...

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