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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... South: American Junkers? The. 1 'American Civilization' The Founding Fathers as philosophes 'Progress' Fugitive government 'Human nature' Conclusion 2 'Fellow Americans' and Outsiders Others: the Native Americans Others: the blacks ...
Stephen Mennell. American Aristocracies The colonial gentry The South: American Junkers? The North: working upper Classes From cumulative to dispersed inequalities? A significant absence: an aristocracy of office Conclusion The Market ...
... South America, Asia, Australia. Yet a puzzle remained: why (to adapt the famous question posed by Werner Sombart about the absence of strong socialist movements) was there no 'Eliasianism' in the United States? Or, if not literally none ...
... South Africa, Canada and Australia. He suggested that such societies continue to exhibit the characteristics of Europe at the time they broke away, and that 'when a part of a European nation is detached from the whole of it, and hurled ...
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