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Herbert Butterfield and the Interpretation of History

Part of the Studies in Modern History Book Series

DOI: 10.1057/9780230000933

ISBN: 978-1-349-51978-1

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK - Springer Journals

Oct 1, 2015

1 - 10 of 14 Chapters

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Chapter 1Introduction

Sewell, Keith C.

Pages: 1 –15

[Herbert Butterfield was born at Oxenhope, Yorkshire, on 7 October 1900. He went up to Peterhouse, Cambridge, from the Keighley Trade Grammar School, in 1919. There he read for the Cambridge Historical Tripos under the tutorship of Paul Vellacott, a meticulous writer who published little.1 The...
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Chapter 2The Romantic Imagination

Sewell, Keith C.

Pages: 16 –29

[As a youth Butterfield absorbed the self-educational literature acquired by his father, as well as detective stories and ‘innumerable sentimental novels’ such as those of Alexandre Dumas. His father’s Methodism was consistent with an emotive romantic disposition. His first aspiration was to be a...
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Chapter 3Butterfield’s Critique of the Whig Interpretation

Sewell, Keith C.

Pages: 30 –47

[Butterfield published The Whig Interpretation of History in 1931.1 Much later, Owen Chadwick stated that it ‘put historians into a state of self-analysis and scrupulosity’ and contributed to ‘the modern and fruitful consideration of the problems of historiography’.2 It was a sustained critique...
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Chapter 4Butterfield’s Critique of Acton

Sewell, Keith C.

Pages: 48 –62

[The Whig Interpretation is an elusive work. Although the prose is intense, Butterfield named few whig or tory historians.1 E. H. Carr complained that he did not ‘name a single Whig except Fox, who was no historian, or a single historian save Acton, who was no Whig’.2 In the Preface Butterfield...
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Chapter 5Machiavelli and the English Tradition

Sewell, Keith C.

Pages: 63 –80

[Butterfield continued his critique of anachronistic historiography in The Statecraft of Machiavelli (1940).1 Its principal themes were Machiavelli’s characteristically ahistorical use of past examples, as contrasted with the more discerning approach of Guicciardini; and the relationship between...
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Chapter 6Expository Historiography

Sewell, Keith C.

Pages: 81 –93

[In 1931 the whig interpretation of history was strongly rejected; in 1944 the whig political method was being fervently applauded. The determination of the relationship between these two standpoints is one of the central issues confronting the interpreter of Butterfield. In what respects was he...
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Chapter 7Providence

Sewell, Keith C.

Pages: 94 –111

[At this point it is appropriate to discuss in greater detail the characteristics of Butterfield’s notion of providence. As has been seen, in The Whig Interpretation Butterfield argued that what ‘our history brings to us is not proof of providence but rather the realisation of how mysterious are...
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Chapter 8Technical History

Sewell, Keith C.

Pages: 112 –129

[Butterfield did not consider his use of ‘providence’ as a general ordering principle to require a modification of his earlier supposedly non-interpretative methodological particularism. On the contrary, his numerous references to providence seem to have prompted him to articulate with increased...
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Chapter 9Butterfield’s Critique of Interpretations

Sewell, Keith C.

Pages: 130 –147

[Any reading of The Whig Interpretation that follows the direction of Butterfield’s argument inevitably focuses on his critique of whig historiography in general, and of Acton in particular. As a result, the weight of any such discussion lies primarily with whig historiography, rather than with...
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Chapter 10The Three Ways or Levels of History

Sewell, Keith C.

Pages: 148 –164

[The formal definition and description of what we have termed ‘expository historiography’ in 1944 inevitably raised the problem of its relationship to technical history. It then also became necessary to establish the relationship between the writings that used providence as an explanatory device,...

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