Essential Calhoun

Informationen zum Autor Jan Jaap Bouma, Marcel Jeucken, Leon Klinkers Klappentext John C. Calhoun was a major actor in the political history of nineteenth-century America. His dramatic career will always be of interest. However, Calhoun is equally important as a political thinker who continues to elicit widespread interest from the most diverse points of the ideological spectrum. The Essential Calhoun presents a full-fledged selection of speeches and writings taken from the entire forty-year span of Calhoun's public career and from many varieties of occasions, public and private. For the first time, it is possible to appreciate Calhoun fully and to consider his thought within the compass of a single volume.Calhoun is known to posterity as the premier defender of the Old South and slavery and as the theorist of the concurrent majority. His contemporaries knew him as much else, including a political economist and foreign policy authority. As the range of writings shows, he was a valuable and often prophetic commentator.Calhoun's thought testifies to a deep and abiding concern with moral and ethical issues that confront a government resting on the consent of the people. The fundamental question with which he wrestles in all his works is how to achieve and maintain a proper balance between power and liberty in a democratic society. By providing the most representative compendium of his thought, The Essential Calhoun invites the reader to engage in this exercise of applying the moral imagination realistically to the public business of America. Historians, American studies specialists, economists, and political scientists will find this volume indispensible. Zusammenfassung John C. Calhoun was a major actor in the political history of nineteenth-century America. His dramatic career will always be of interest Inhaltsverzeichnis 1: On Government and the Concurrent Majority; 2: On the Constitution of the United States; 3: On Statesmanship and Republican Virtue; 4: On America and the American People; 5: On War and Foreign Relations; 6: On Taxation and Public Expenditure; 7: On Free Trade; 8: On Banks and the Currency; 9: On the Rights of the States; 10: On the Executive Branch; 11: On American Parties and Politics; 12: On the Conflict of the Sections; 13: On Himself...

Détails du produit

• Auteurs: John C. Calhoun, Russell Kirk, Clyde N. Wilson, Wilson Clyde N.
• Collaboration: Clyde N. Wilson (Editeur)
• Edition: Transaction Publishers
• Langues: Anglais
• Format d'édition: Livre de poche
• Sortie: 31.12.1999
• EAN: 9780765806673
• ISBN: 978-0-7658-0667-3
• Pages: 472
• Thèmes: Library of Conservative Though; Library of Conservative Thought; Library of Conservative Thought
• Catégories: Littérature spécialisée > Philosophie, religion > Philosophie: général, ouvrages de référence; Sciences sociales, droit, économie > Sciences politiques; USA, Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900, POLITICAL SCIENCE / American Government / General, HISTORY / United States / 19th Century, c 1800 to c 1900, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, Politics & government, 18th century, c 1700 to c 1799, United States of America, USA, Politics and government, History of the Americas, public;letter;clemson;university;Russell Kirk