American Political Cultures

By - Ellis, Richard (Richard J.)

Floor - Floor 4

Published - Oxford University Press, New York, 1993

ISBN 10 - 0195079000

ISBN 13 - 9780195079005

Book Status - 1 Qnty Available with us.

Subject - Political culture

Shelf No - 5

Call Number - 973 ELL

Physical Description - xiii, 251 pages ; 25 cm

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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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