American political cultures
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Author
Publication
1993 - Oxford University Press, New York, USA, New York (State)
Language
English
Word Count
62,750 words, Guess
Page Count
251 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL1729520M
- ISBN-100195079000
- OCLC Control Number26807516
- OCLC Control Numberamericanpolitica0000elli
- Library of Congress Control Number92033873
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- Goodreads3474392
Classifications
- DDC973
- LCCE183 .E44 1993
Description
This work challenges the thesis first formulated by de Tocqueville and later systematically developed by Louis Hartz, that American political culture is characterized by a consensus on liberal capitalist values. Ranging over three hundred years of history and drawing upon the seminal work anthropologist Mary Douglas, Richard Ellis demonstrates that American history is best understood as a contest between five rival political cultures: egalitarian community, competitive individualism, hierarchical collectivism, atomized fatalism, and autonomous hermitude.
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