Understanding the founding
Subtitle: the crucial questions
By: Alan Gibson
Edition: 2nd ed., rev. and expanded.
Series: American political thought
Publisher: University Press of Kansas
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Lawrence
Language: eng
Number of pages: 418
ISBN-13: 9780700617517; 9780700617524
Description: Previous edition, 1st, published in 2007.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Still hazy after all these years : the economic interpretation and the cloudy legacy of empirical analysis; title: Democracy and the framers' constitution : towards a balanced assessment; title: How should we study the American founding? : in defense of historically sensitive political philosophy; title: Ancients, moderns, and Americans : the republicanism-liberalism debate revisited; title: How could they have done that? : slavery and the question of moral responsibility; title: Taking historiography.