Robert M. Calhoon

Political Moderation in America's First Two Centuries

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Produktbeschreibung

In this book political moderates emerge as complex, thoughtful, and sometimes deeply flawed human beings.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 310
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. November 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 506g
• ISBN-13: 9780521734165
• ISBN-10: 0521734169
• Artikelnr.: 25007467

Autorenporträt

Robert M. Calhoon is a professor of history at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. His books include The Loyalists in Revolutionary America, 1760-1781 (1973); Revolutionary America: An Interpretive Overview (1976); Evangelicals and Conservatives in the Early South, 1740-1861 (1988); and The Loyalist Perception and Other Essays (1989, Second Edition, 2008). He is also the founding editor of the on-line Journal of Backcountry Studies.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Augustan moderates: 'The precariousness of genuine civilization'
2. Revolutionary moderates and the development of political character
3. Ordered liberty in the Southern backcountry and the middle West
4. Moderating moderation: denominational and primitive Christianity.