Cultus Americanus: Varieties of the Liberal Tradition in American Political Culture, 1600-1865Lexington Books, 2006 - 305 páginas Cultus Americanus applies a philosophical model of political culture as ideology, religion, and myth, to a re-consideration of America's liberal consensus to explain cultural diversity in America. Author Brent Gilchrist engagingly depicts a political culture that is more complex and more cohesive than has been previously maintained that will be of great interest to scholars and students of American politics and history. |
Índice
Articulating the Inarticulate Premise of Conformity | |
The Conceptual Matrix of Political Culture | 15 |
Ideology in America | 63 |
American Gospel | 157 |
Americas Mythic Undercurrents | 217 |
A Complex Consensus | 253 |
Bibliography | 269 |
Index | 297 |
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