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American political cultures / Richard J. Ellis.
- 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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