Research Catalog

Title

Political moderation in America's first two centuries / Robert McCluer Calhoon.

Author

Calhoon, Robert M. (Robert McCluer)

Publication

Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2009.

Supplementary Content

• Contributor biographical information
• Publisher description

Details

Description

xv, 291 p.; 23 cm.

Subjects

• United States > Politics and government > Philosophy
• United States > Politics and government > 1865-1900
• United States > Politics and government > 1783-1865
• United States > Politics and government > To 1775
• Moderation > Political aspects > History
• Religion and politics > United States > History
• Political leadership > United States > History
• Political culture > United States > History
• Moderation > Political aspects > United States > History

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 275-285) and index.

Contents

Prologue: Sparta, 432 BC -- Political moderation : an introduction -- Augustan moderates : "The precariousness of genuine civilization" -- Revolutionary moderates and the development of political character -- Ordered liberty in the Southern backcountry and the Middle West -- Moderating moderation : denominational and primitive Christianity -- Epilogue: moderate liberalism in post-Civil War America.

Call Number

ID 08-7555

ISBN

• 0521515548 (hbk.)
• 9780521515542 (hbk.)
• 0521734169 (pbk.)
• 9780521734165 (pbk.)

LCCN

2008013030

OCLC

220420012

Author

Calhoon, Robert M. (Robert McCluer)

Title

Political moderation in America's first two centuries / Robert McCluer Calhoon.

Imprint

Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2009.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (p. 275-285) and index.

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Contributor biographical information

Publisher description

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Research Call Number

ID 08-7555