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Cultus americanus : varieties of the liberal tradition in American political culture, 1600-1865 / Brent Gilchrist.
Van Pelt Library JC574.2.U6 G55 2006
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Gilchrist, Brent, 1956-2016.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Liberalism--United States--History.
- Liberalism.
- United States.
- History.
- Political culture--United States--History.
- Political culture.
- National characteristics, American--History.
- National characteristics, American.
- Physical Description:
- vii, 305 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Lanham, MD : Lexington Books, [2006]
- Summary:
- Cultus Americanus applies a philosophical model of political culture as ideology, religion, and myth to a reconsideration of America's liberal consensus to explain cultural diversity in America. Applying this model to the formative years of American political culture, 1600 to 1865, the author demonstrates that American diversity exists within a single, coherent cultural universe, dominated by a liberal ideology that is informed and supported by both a unique American religiosity and a vibrant American mythology. Brent Gilchrist engagingly depicts a political culture that is more complex and more cohesive than previously maintained, one that will be of great interest to scholars and students of American politics and history.
- Contents:
- Articulating the inarticulate premise of conformity
- The conceptual matrix of political culture
- Ideology in America
- American gospel
- America's mythic undercurrents
- A complex consensus.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 271-297) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0739111035
- OCLC:
- 63230587
- Publisher Number:
- 9780739111031
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