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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... England by old English and German ideas, brought over by Pilgrims and Puritans, and as ready to take root in the ... England in the first half of the seventeenth century, or, at most, England before the Revolution of 1688. (1901: 1) The ...
... England and Italy which, from the thirteenth to the nineteenth century, set out the standards of behaviour that were socially acceptable among the secular upper classes. The earlier ones dealt with very basic questions of 'outward ...
... England was among the earliest — and there were reversals well into the seventeenth century. But everywhere in Western Europe there was emerging a new upper class of courtiers. The old warrior nobility was being tamed; over the ...
... England, in a period that coincided with the first decades of European settlement in America, events took a different turn. Although the Tudors and early Stuarts appeared to have established a more secure royal monopoly than their ...
... England legacy was not so misleading in the past as it has become today: as a British journalist commented, 'There is an America beyond Massachusetts, and it is firmly in control' (Clark, 2005). The rich internal political and cultural ...