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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... Tocqueville for the University of Chicago Press's Heritage of Sociology series. Something else which I took back with me from Harvard when I returned to Europe in 1967 to begin my career as a university teacher was a preoccupation with ...
... Tocqueville who, in Democracy in America, observed 'that manners are softened as social conditions become more equal' (1961 [1835—40]: II, 195—200).” Whether longer chains of interdependence always have these consequences will be ...
... problems also run though the book. First, there is the question of 'American social character', much discussed from Crevecoeur through Tocqueville and David Riesman to Christopher Lasch. The whole issue was never simple, but has.
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