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American political cultures / / Richard J. Ellis



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Autore: Ellis Richard (Richard J.) Visualizza persona
Titolo: American political cultures / / Richard J. Ellis Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: New York, : Oxford University Press, c1993
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (331 p.)
Disciplina: 973
Soggetto topico: Political culture - United States - History
Soggetto geografico: United States Politics and government
Note generali: Previously issued in print: 1993.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 177-239) and index.
Nota di contenuto: 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
Sommario/riassunto: 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.
Titolo autorizzato: American political cultures  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 0-19-773281-X
1-280-53997-6
0-19-536003-6
1-4294-0117-6
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910813650103321
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Serie: Oxford scholarship online.