{"product_id":"political-moderation-in-americas-first-two-centuries-paperback-9780521734165","title":"Political Moderation in America's First Two Centuries (Paperback) 9780521734165","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003ePolitical Moderation in America's First Two Centuries\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eIn this book political moderates emerge as complex, thoughtful, and sometimes deeply flawed human beings.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eRobert McCluer Calhoon (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780521734165, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback, published 22 September 2008\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e310 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.8 x 15.2 x 1.5 cm, 0.42 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e'For three decades Robert Calhoun has produced a steady catalogue of major scholarship on such diverse topics as Loyalists in the American Revolution, life in the southern backcountry, and evangelical conservatives in the antebellum South. Now, with Political Moderation in America's First Two Centuries we have the long awaited synthesis that looks comprehensively and authoritatively at conservative political movements throughout early American history. Thoroughly researched, wonderfully written, and brilliantly synthetic, this books is certain to become the standard on the foundations of American conservatism. In one volume readers are drawn into a definitive summation of 'moderation' in politics, religion, and culture. A must read for students of early America and for all inquirers into the roots of political consciousness in America.' Harry S. Stout, Yale University\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePolitical Moderation in America's First Two Centuries corrects the popular misconception that moderates are timid and cautious. Robert M. Calhoon examines the structure of political moderation; he characterizes moderation as a compound of principle and prudence; he defines it as humility in the face of the past; and he classifies it as historically grounded political ethics. From its origins in the Peloponnesian War and its early modern recovery during the French Wars of Religion, this book recounts the popularization of political moderation in American history from John Locke in the 1680s to the Mugwumps in the 1880s. The first comprehensive history of this subject, this book draws on more that a hundred books published over the past half century and extensive research on religion and politics in America to demonstrate that moderates were creatures of circumstance - made not born.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e1. Augustan moderates: 'The precariousness of genuine civilization'\u003cbr\u003e 2. Revolutionary moderates and the development of political character\u003cbr\u003e 3. Ordered liberty in the Southern backcountry and the middle West\u003cbr\u003e 4. Moderating moderation: denominational and primitive Christianity.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: History of the Americas [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on History of the Americas\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22History%20of%20the%20Americas%20%5BHBJK%5D%22\"\u003eHBJK\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45913312461080,"sku":"9780521734165","price":23.89,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/products\/9780521734165i_daf943e0-977a-4832-a31b-8e21c95520a5.jpg?v=1691380618","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/political-moderation-in-americas-first-two-centuries-paperback-9780521734165","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}