American Political Cultures

by Richard J. Ellis

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195079000
• ISBN13: 9780195079005
• Release Date: July 1993
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.38 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.4" x 9.5"

Customer Reviews

American Political Cultures

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.