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UNINA9910813650103321 |
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Autore |
Ellis Richard (Richard J.) |
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Titolo |
American political cultures [[electronic resource] /] / Richard J. Ellis |
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New York, : Oxford University Press, c1993 |
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ISBN |
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0-19-773281-X |
1-280-53997-6 |
0-19-536003-6 |
1-4294-0117-6 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (331 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Political culture - United States - History |
United States Politics and government |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 177-239) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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 |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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. |
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