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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"A useful and clear map of a road well traveled by those who have tried to come to terms with the complexity of American political life."--American Political Science Review
"A valuable critical survey of the latest scholarship on the history of America's troublesome political culture."--American Historical Review
"American Political Cultures is a thoughtful and intellectually ambitious reading of our past."--Contemporary Sociology
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Richard J. Ellis is at Willamette University.
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Richard Ellis presents a wide-sweeping view of America's political cultures. It is an important work for scholars, but its usefulness has been diminished by its bibilographic approach. Placement of the notes at the end of the book and the lack of a bibliography detract from an otherwide interesting work.
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hierarchical collectivism, equalizing results, consensus thesis, individualist way, democratic wish, competitive individualism, equal process, competitive individualist, classical republicanism, egalitarian direction Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
United States, New Left, New England, Br'er Rabbit, Old World, Wendell Phillips, Walden Pond, Civil War, New World, New Deal, Frederick Douglass, American Revolution, Tom Hayden, Daniel Webster, Mary Douglas, Fisher Ames, Louis Hartz, Richard Hofstadter, Henry George, Samuel Huntington, William Lloyd Garrison, Social Gospel, Adam Smith, Major Freeland, Thomas Paine Browse Sample Pages:
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United States, New Left, New England, Br'er Rabbit, Old World, Wendell Phillips, Walden Pond, Civil War, New World, New Deal, Frederick Douglass, American Revolution, Tom Hayden, Daniel Webster, Mary Douglas, Fisher Ames, Louis Hartz, Richard Hofstadter, Henry George, Samuel Huntington, William Lloyd Garrison, Social Gospel, Adam Smith, Major Freeland, Thomas Paine Browse Sample Pages:
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- The Political Use of Racial Narratives: School Desegregation in Mobile, Alabama, 1954-97 by Richard A. Pride in Front Matter, Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- The Intellectual Origins of Mass Parties and Mass Schools in the Jacksonian Era : Creating a Conformed Citizenry (Garland Studies in American Popular History and Culture) by Julie M. Walsh on page 35, and Back Matter
- Presidents and the People: The Partisan Story of Going Public (Joseph V. Hughes Jr. and Holly O. Hughes Series on the Presidency and Leadership) by Dr. Melvin C. Laracey Ph.D. in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Culture Matters: Essays In Honor Of Aaron Wildavsky by Richard J Ellis in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- The 2000 Presidential Campaign: A Communication Perspective by Robert E. Denton on page 133, and Back Matter
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