Research Catalog

Title

Interpreting the founding : guide to the enduring debates over the origins and foundations of the American republic / Alan Gibson.

Author

Gibson, Alan Ray, 1961-

Publication

Lawrence, Kan. : University Press of Kansas, c2006.

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Details

Description

xvii, 174 p.; 24 cm.

Summary

As politicians and judges argue over the original intent of our countrys founding fathers, the American Founding itself continues to inspire a prodigious amount of research and commentary, reflecting a bewildering array of methods and interpretations. Alan Gibson now offers readers an insightful and convenient guide through this daunting and sprawling body of scholarship. This book provides summaries and analyses of the leading interpretive frameworks that have guided the study of the Founding since the publication of Charles Beards An Economic Interpretation of the Constitution in 1913. Gibson argues that scholarship on the Founding is no longer steered by a single dominant approach or even by a set of questions that control its direction. He also examines the challenges posed to Founding scholarship by this diversity and complexity and the possibilities opened by new avenues of inquiry that have recently emerged.

Series Statement

American political thought

Uniform Title

American political thought

Subject

• Constitutional history > United States
• United States > Politics and government

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 143-163) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

The center will no longer hold -- The progressive interpretation -- The liberal tradition -- The tunnel history of republicanism -- The Scottish conversation -- The multiple traditions approach -- "From the bottom up" : feminine, forgotten, and forced founders.

ISBN

• 0700614532 (cloth : alk. paper)
• 0700614540 (pbk. : alk. paper)
• 9780700614547

LCCN

^^2006000283

OCLC

63108295

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library