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Title:
Understanding the founding : the crucial questions / Alan Gibson.
Author:
Gibson, Alan Ray, 1961-
Publication Information:
Lawrence : University Press of Kansas, c2010.
Call Number:
KF4541 .G534 2010
Edition:
2nd ed., rev. and expanded.
ISBN:
9780700617517

9780700617524
Series:
American political thought

American political thought.
Physical Description:
x, 418 p. ; 24 cm.
Contents:
Still hazy after all these years : the economic interpretation and the cloudy legacy of empirical analysis -- Democracy and the founders' constitution : towards a balanced assessment -- How should we study the American founding? : in defense of historically sensitive political philosophy -- Ancients, moderns, and Americans : the republicanism-liberalism debate revisited -- How could they have done that? : slavery and the question of moral responsibility -- Taking historiography seriously.
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