The article presents (among other things) how Hume, as a Scottish(!) Enlightenment thinker, sets himself apart from the English Whig History. Hume's account of

The article presents (among other things) how Hume, as a Scottish(!) Enlightenment thinker, sets himself apart from the English Whig History. Hume's account of the transition from feudalism to modernity seems to me to be more realistic than the Whig Triumph History. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_History_of_England_(Hume_book)#Criticism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_History_of_England_(Hume_b... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whig_history https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whig_history