Download or read book True Whigs and Honest Tories: The arc of empire written by Thomas S. Martin and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 634 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: True Whigs and Honest Tories is a two-volume study of the social, cultural and philosophical milieu that generated the American Revolution. The recent convergence of anarchist, feminist and ecological philosophy, combined with general systems theory and new ideas about language and psychology, has begun to generate a post-Western, "Green" way of looking at the world. Historiography is striving to keep up, and this book is a first step in a Green direction. It is intended to raise more questions than it answers, and to suggest a wide range of new avenues for historians to explore. Drawing on familiar sources and influential secondary works, Martin wrests an oft-told tale out of its Western moorings and offers an entirely new perspective. Volume II of this ambitious work discusses the clash of elites and ideas prior to the American Revolution.