The Politics of Moderation in Modern European History

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 Introduction: The Politics of Moderation  (Ido de Haan, Matthijs Lok)....Pages 1-25
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 Against Popular Societies and Faction: Transatlantic Discourses of Moderation in the American, French and Dutch Republics of the 1790s  (René Koekkoek)....Pages 29-48
 Moderation and Religion in France After the Revolution: Germaine de Staël and Benjamin Constant  (Arthur Ghins)....Pages 49-65
 ‘The Extremes Set the Tone’: Counter-Revolutionary Moderation in Continental Conservatism (ca. 1795–1835)  (Matthijs Lok)....Pages 67-88
 Taming the Evil Passions: Moderation in the International Relations  (Beatrice de Graaf)....Pages 89-107
 In Medio Stat Virtus? The Adaptability of the Moderate Project of Politics in Mid-nineteenth-Century Europe (1830–1870)  (Amerigo Caruso)....Pages 109-127
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 Third Ways Out of the Crisis of Liberalism: Moderation and Radicalism in Germany, 1880–1950  (Ido de Haan)....Pages 131-150
 French Fascism as a ‘Revolution of the Centre’: Intellectuals Between Revolution and Conservation  (Daniel Knegt)....Pages 151-162
 Moderation Through Expertise: Functional Elites and the Politics of Moderation in Western Europe’s Mid-Twentieth Century  (Camilo Erlichman)....Pages 163-186
 ‘Disconnect Romanticism from Politics’: Democracy’s Moderate Face in Cold War Western Europe  (Pepijn Corduwener)....Pages 187-203
 The Short History and Long Legacy of the Third Way: Social Democracy and Moderation at the End of the Twentieth Century  (Hanco Jürgens)....Pages 205-219
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 Moderation as Orthodoxy in Sunni Islam: Or, Why Nobody Wants to Be the Kharijite  (Robbert Woltering)....Pages 223-236
 Moderation: A Radical Virtue  (Aurelian Craiutu, Sheldon Gellar)....Pages 237-257
Back Matter ....Pages 259-272