Conservatism and southern intellectuals, 1789-1861
Subtitle: liberty, tradition, and the good society
By: Adam L. Tate.
Publisher: University of Missouri Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Columbia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 402
Subjects: Conservatism -- Southern States -- History -- 19th century; Conservatism -- Southern States -- History -- 18th century; Southern States -- Intellectual life -- 19th century; Southern States -- Intellectual life -- 18th century
Description: "In Conservatism and Southern Intellectuals, 1789-1861, Adam L. Tate discusses the nature of southern conservative thought between 1789 and 1861 by examining six conservatives whose lives and careers spanned the antebellum period: John Randolph of Roanoke, John Taylor of Caroline, Nathaniel Beverley Tucker, William Gilmore Simms, Joseph Glover Baldwin, and Johnson Jones Hooper. Tate contends that southern conservatism derived its distinctive characteristics from its acceptance of aspects of John Locke's political theory as it was articulated during the American Revolution."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 373-396) and index.
Table of contents: title: The old Republicans : John Taylor of Caroline and John Randolph of Roanoke; title: Separating state and society : the political principles of the old Republicans; title: John Taylor, John Randolph, and the good society; title: Antebellum proslavery intellectuals : Nathaniel Beverley Tucker and William Gilmore Simms; title: The political principles of Tucker and Simms; title: Imagining the conservative slave society : the social thought of Tucker and Simms; title: Whig humorists : Joseph Glover Baldwin and Johnson Jones Hooper; title: The Whig political thought of Baldwin and Hooper; title: The Whig social thought of Baldwin and Hooper.