Beschreibung:
Robert M. Calhoon is a professor of history at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. His books include The Loyalists in Revolutionary America, 1760-1781 (1973); Revolutionary America: An Interpretive Overview (1976); Evangelicals and Conservatives in the Early South, 1740-1861 (1988); and The Loyalist Perception and Other Essays (1989, Second Edition, 2008). He is also the founding editor of the on-line Journal of Backcountry Studies.
In this book political moderates emerge as complex, thoughtful, and sometimes deeply flawed human beings.
1. Augustan moderates: 'The precariousness of genuine civilization'; 2. Revolutionary moderates and the development of political character; 3. Ordered liberty in the Southern backcountry and the middle West; 4. Moderating moderation: denominational and primitive Christianity.