The American Civilizing ProcessJohn Wiley & Sons, 2013/04/24 - 400 ページ Since 9/11, the American government has presumed to speak and act in the name of ‘civilization’. But isthat how the rest of the world sees it? And if not, why not? Stephen Mennell leads up to such contemporary questions through a careful study of the whole span of American development, from the first settlers to the American Empire. He takes a novel approach, analysing the USA’s experience in the light of Norbert Elias’s theory of civilizing (and decivilizing) processes. Drawing comparisons between the USA and other countries of the world, the topics discussed include:
Mennell shows how the long-term experience of Americans has been of growing more and more powerful in relation to their neighbours. This has had all-pervasive effects on the way they see themselves, their perception of the rest of the world, and how the rest of the world sees them. Mennell’s compelling and provocative account will appeal to anyone concerned about America's role in the world today, including students and scholars of American politics and society. |
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... American history, society and politics dates from when, as a first-year undergraduate (in economics) at Cambridge in 1963—4, I attended the lectures of Sir Denis Brogan and Lord Annan, and tutorials with Maurice Cowling. After ...
... American society on a profoundly different track of development from that followed by European societies. Life on the frontier had meant a recurring return to 'primitive conditions', from which American social development had been ...
... America's institutional and intellectual debt to Europe cannot be assessed for all time as a fixed percentage. Nor can the relative autonomy of the development of American society from that of Europe. The debt plainly diminished and the ...
... society of the Middle Ages, 'the behavioural differences between different estates in the same region were often greater than those between regionally separate representatives of the same social stratum', and models of behaviour ...
... America; one need only mention Thorstein Veblen's account in The Theory of the Leisure Class (1899) of 'conspicuous consumption' among American ... society, and the shocking wars and genocides of the twentieth century make it tempting to ...