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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... has superseded the older 'Indian'. I have attempted to avoid both offence and anachronism by using an older term whenever a newer term might read incongruously. Prologue: Civilizing Processes C9\® Viewed from Europe, America is a.
... Indians and blacks — just as in Europe 'civilization' gradually became a badge of superiority, first of upper-class people over the lower classes of European societies themselves and then of all Europeans over the natives of lands ...
... Indians, slaves and women. Undeniable though that is, it is arguably not the most fundamental criticism that can be made. For even among the 'men' who are included, there never subsists a factual equality in the real social world; there ...
... Indians, as they were then called. It also demarcated them from the African slaves they imported; and, a little less emphatically, from French traders and settlers. The key 'others' in the development of an American identity are the Indians ...
... Indians' were initially the 'established', and the power ratio at the centre of the established— outsider figuration of the European settlers and the Indians was at first much more nearly equal than that between the white settlers and ...