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American political cultures / Richard J. Ellis.

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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Ellis, Richard (Richard J.), author.
Series:
Oxford scholarship online.
Oxford scholarship online
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Political culture--United States--History.
Political culture.
United States--Politics and government.
United States.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (331 p.)
Place of Publication:
New York : Oxford University Press, 2023.
Language Note:
English
Summary:
Challenging views that American politics are characterized by a consensus on liberal capitalist values, this study covers 300 years of history to trace rival political cultures: egalitarian community, competitive individualism, hierarchical collectivism, atomized fatalism and autonomous hermitude.
Contents:
Contents; 1 Individualism and Community in American Life; 2 Radical Lockeanism; 3 Rival Visions of Equality: Process Versus Results; 4 Competing Conceptions of Democracy; 5 An Anti-Authority Consensus?; 6 Hierarchy in America; 7 Fatalism in America: The Case of Slavery; 8 A Life of Hermitude: Thoreau at Walden Pond; 9 Culture, Context, and Consensus; Notes; Index
Notes:
Previously issued in print: 1993.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 177-239) and index.
Derived record based on print version record and publisher information.
ISBN:
0-19-773281-X
1-280-53997-6
0-19-536003-6
1-4294-0117-6
OCLC:
700679054

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